16 must-read technical books like Kafka: The Definitive Guide by Gwen Shapira

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Kafka: The Definitive Guide

By: Gwen Shapira

4.31

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

Every enterprise application creates data, whether it consists of log messages, metrics, user activ…

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1. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

By: Eric Evans

4.15

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

"Eric Evans has written a fantastic book on how you can make the design of your software match your… read more

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  • technology
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2. The C Programming Language

By: Brian W. Kernighan , Dennis M. Ritchie

4.44

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

This book is meant to help the reader learn how to program in C. It is the definitive reference gui… read more

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3. Just Enough Software Architecture: A Risk-Driven Approach

By: George H. Fairbanks

3.47

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

This is a practical guide for software developers, and different than other software architecture b… read more

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4. Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on… read more

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5. Chasm City

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has bee… read more

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6. Absolution Gap

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence - … read more

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7. The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

By: Michael D. Watkins

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Since its original release, The First 90 Dayshas become the bestselling globally acknowledged bible… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (The XP Series)

By: Kent Beck , Cynthia Andres

4.05

Format: 144 pages,

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9. Redemption Ark

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the In… read more

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10. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

By: None

4.62

Format: None pages, ebook

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11. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

By: Robert C. Martin

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Even bad code can function. But if code isn t clean, it can bring a development organization to its… read more

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12. 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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13. 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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14. How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

By: Annie Duke

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Through a blend of compelling exercises, illustrations, and stories, the bestselling author of Thin… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Termination Shock

By: Neal Stephenson

3.83

Format: 708 pages, Hardcover

A visionary technothriller about climate change. Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new nove… read more

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16. 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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"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

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17. Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach

By: Mark Richards

4.26

Format: 419 pages, Paperback

Although salary surveys worldwide regularly identify software architect as one of the top ten best … read more

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18. The Black God's Drums

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to … read more

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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. The Great Mental Models Volume 3: Systems and Mathematics

By: Rhiannon Beaubien

4.24

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The Great Mental Models: Volume 3 covers essential models from mathematics and systems. In part… read more

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23. 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

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24. Natural Language Processing with Transformers: Building Language Applications with Hugging Face

By: Lewis Tunstall

4.43

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Since their introduction in 2017, transformers have quickly become the dominant architecture for ac… read more

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25. The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology

By: Shane Parrish

4.17

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

THE MUCH ANTICIPATED SECOND INSTALLMENT IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLING SERIES ‘THE GREAT ME… read more

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Cover of Spark: The Definitive Guide: Big Data Processing Made Simple by Bill Chambers

26. Spark: The Definitive Guide: Big Data Processing Made Simple

By: Bill Chambers

4.15

Format: 951 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark with this comprehensive guide, written by the c… read more

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27. 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

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28. Kafka: The Definitive Guide

By: Gwen Shapira

4.31

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

Every enterprise application creates data, whether it consists of log messages, metrics, user activ… read more

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29. Patterns of Distributed Systems (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

By: Unmesh joshi

3.70

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

A Patterns Approach to Designing Distributed Systems and Solving Common Implementation Problems Mo… read more

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30. Learn Concurrent Programming with Go

By: James Cutajar

4.47

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Write concurrent code in Go that improves application performance, scales up to handle bigger loads… read more

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31. Stream Processing with Apache Flink: Fundamentals, Implementation, and Operation of Streaming Applications

By: Fabian Hueske

4.19

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Get started with Apache Flink, the open source framework that powers some of the world’s largest st… read more

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18 must-read nonfiction books like Kafka: The Definitive Guide by Gwen Shapira

Transform Your Habits

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Eric Evans

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The C Programming Language

Brian W. Kernighan , Dennis M. Ritchie

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Just Enough Software Architecture: A Risk-Driven Approach

George H. Fairbanks

3.47

Transform Your Habits

The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

Michael D. Watkins

5.00

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Transform Your Habits

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

Annie Duke

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

Shane Parrish

4.21

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