16 must-read technology books like System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2 by Alex Xu

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System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2

By: Alex Xu

4.49

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide (Volume 2) This book can be seen as a sequel to the b…

If you liked the technology plot in System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2 by Alex Xu , here is a list of 16 books like this:

1. The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

By: Gene Kim , Jez Humble , Patrick Debois , John Willis

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed productivity goals through DevOps practice… read more

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  • computer science
  • technical
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology

2. Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People

By: None

5.00

Format: None pages,

An algorithm is nothing more than a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem. The algorithms yo… read more

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3. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

By: Dave Thomas , Andy Hunt

3.28

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through th… read more

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4. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

By: None

4.62

Format: None pages, ebook

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5. Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems

By: Sam Newman

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Paperback

Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy mo… read more

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6. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

By: Camille Fournier

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at i… read more

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7. Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

By: Nicole Forsgren

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Does technology actually matter? And how can we apply technology to drive business value? For years… read more

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  • engineering
  • computer science
  • technical
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
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8. The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

By: Tanya Reilly

4.40

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But tr… read more

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  • engineering
  • computer science
  • technical
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
"What will Future You wish that Present You had done?"

-Tanya Reilly, The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

"Yes, you can be an introvert. No, you can't be a jerk."

-Tanya Reilly, The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

Cover of Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy by Vladik Khononov

9. Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy

By: Vladik Khononov

4.47

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Building software is harder than ever. As a developer, you not only have to chase ever-changing tec… read more

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  • architecture
  • engineering
  • programming
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
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10. Understanding Distributed Systems: What every developer should know about large distributed applications

By: Roberto Vitillo

4.38

Format: 234 pages, ebook

Learning to build distributed systems is hard, especially if they are large scale. It's not that th… read more

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  • architecture
  • engineering
  • programming
  • computer science
  • coding
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
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11. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

By: Titus Winters

4.20

Format: 599 pages, Paperback

The approach to and understanding of software engineering at Google is unlike any other company. Wi… read more

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  • programming
  • engineering
  • computer science
  • coding
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
"Sometimes, the best thing you can do is just say, “I don’t know."

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

"Google and Stack Overflow are great sources of opinions and information, but they’re no substitute for actual human experience."

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

"Programming is the immediate act of producing code. Software engineering is the set of policies, practices, and tools that are necessary to make that code useful for as long as it needs to be used an…"

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

"Making good engineering decisions is all about weighing all of the available inputs and making informed decisions about the trade-offs. Sometimes, those decisions are based on instinct or accepted be…"

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

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12. Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track

By: Will Larson

4.07

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

At most technology companies, you’ll reach Senior Software Engineer, the career level for software … read more

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  • engineering
  • computer science
  • technical
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
Cover of Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures by Neal Ford

13. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures

By: Neal Ford

4.28

Format: 459 pages, Paperback

There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult… read more

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  • architecture
  • engineering
  • programming
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
Cover of The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups by Gergely  Orosz

14. The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups

By: Gergely Orosz

4.12

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

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  • engineering
  • computer science
  • technical
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
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15. Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design

By: Kent Beck

3.95

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Messy code is a nuisance. "Tidying" code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it up into ma… read more

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  • architecture
  • engineering
  • programming
  • computer science
  • coding
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
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16. Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications

By: Chip Huyen

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Machine learning systems are both complex and unique. Complex because they consist of many differen… read more

Similar categories in Chip Huyen's Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications book and Alex Xu's System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2

  • programming
  • engineering
  • computer science
  • coding
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
Cover of Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

17. Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions

By: Gayle Laakmann McDowell

4.40

Format: 712 pages, Kindle Edition

I am not a recruiter. I am a software engineer. And as such, I know what it's like to be asked to w… read more

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  • computer science
  • software
  • programming
  • technology
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18. Database Internals: A deep-dive into how distributed data systems work

By: Alex Petrov

4.25

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

When it comes to choosing, using, and maintaining a database, understanding its internals is essent… read more

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  • architecture
  • engineering
  • programming
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
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19. System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2

By: Alex Xu

4.49

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide (Volume 2) This book can be seen as a sequel to the b… read more

Similar categories in Alex Xu's System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2 book and Alex Xu's System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2

  • architecture
  • engineering
  • programming
  • computer science
  • coding
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
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20. Machine Learning System Design Interview

By: Ali Aminian

4.36

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Machine learning system design interviews are the most difficult to tackle of all technical intervi… read more

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  • architecture
  • engineering
  • technology
  • software
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21. The Tech Resume Inside Out

By: Gergely Orosz

4.37

Format: 217 pages, ebook

This book helps you craft a developer resume that represents you fairly, plays to your strengths, a… read more

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  • computer science
  • technical
  • coding
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology

14 Best nonfiction books like System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2 by Alex Xu

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

Gene Kim , Jez Humble , Patrick Debois , John Willis

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

Nicole Forsgren

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

Tanya Reilly

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy

Vladik Khononov

4.47

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Transform Your Habits

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow

Aurélien Géron

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming

Luciano Ramalho

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

Tanya Reilly

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach

Mark Richards

4.26

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