Building Maintainable Software
By: Joost Visser
3.75
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
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1. Alan Turing: The Enigma
By: Andrew Hodges , Douglas R. Hofstadter
3.75
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Alan Turing (1912-54) was a British mathematician who made history. His breaking of the German U-bo… read more
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- computer science
- nonfiction
- technology
"His machines - soon to be called Turing machines - offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world."-Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma
"The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clea…"-Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma
"HIs chess-playing methods did the same thing — as did the games on the Colossi — and posed the question as to where a line could be drawn between the 'intelligent' and the 'mechanical'. His view, exp…"-Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma
2. The Art of War
By: Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary
3.95
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chines… read more
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- nonfiction
"Never venture, never win!"-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"Danger has a bracing effect."-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"The wise warrior avoids the battle."-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"If his forces are united, separate them."-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
3. Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas
By: Garth Ennis , Steve Dillon , Joe R. Lansdale
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Comics
Alternate Cover Edition One of the most celebrated comics titles of the late 1990s, PREACHER is… read more
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"I thought you an' I'd already settled the roles in the fucker/fuckee relationship! I guess I thought wrong!"-Garth Ennis, Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas
" Criminal: You can suck my dick, motherfucker! Detective Bridges: You suck mine! [shoves barrel of pistol in the Criminal's mouth] An' you get used to it, cause you get to Rykers you're gonna find a …"-Garth Ennis, Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas
4. 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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- computer science
- technical
- coding
- nonfiction
- programming
- software
- technology
5. I Heart Logs: Event Data, Stream Processing, and Data Integration
By: Jay Kreps
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Why a book about logs? That's easy: the humble log is an abstraction that lies at the heart of many… read more
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- programming
- computer science
- nonfiction
- technical
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- technology
6. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
By: Kent Beck , Erich Gamma , Martin Fowler , Don Roberts
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
As the application of object technology--particularly the Java programming language--has become com… read more
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- programming
- computer science
- coding
- nonfiction
- technical
- software
- technology
7. Rework
By: Jason Fried , David Heinemeier Hansson
3.98
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, see… read more
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- nonfiction
- technology
"Press Releases are spam"-Jason Fried, Rework
"Don't throw good time after bad work."-Jason Fried, Rework
"It’s a lot harder to pull your head up and ask why."-Jason Fried, Rework
"If you build software, every error message is marketing"-Jason Fried, Rework
8. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
By: Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi
4.34
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of pers… read more
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- nonfiction
"At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs."-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished."-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing an…"-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: …"-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
9. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
By: António Damásio
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotio… read more
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10. 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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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. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
14. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
By: Annie Duke
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in footbal… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
By: Tiago Forte
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more
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- nonfiction
- technology
16. The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
By: Graeme Simsion
4.04
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
I was standing on one leg shucking oysters when the problems began… Don and Rosie are back in Me… read more
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"Lack of coolness can be pretty cool."-Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
"Humans instinctively trust personal experience over research"-Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
"I had learned that people with irrational beliefs in one domain could be sensible and reliable in others."-Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
"I had learned, reluctantly and over many years, that rational argument seldom overcame irrational resistance."-Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
17. The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well
By: Michael Lopp
4.18
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Many people think leadership is a higher calling that resides exclusively with a select few who pra… read more
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- software
- technology
- nonfiction
- programming
18. Clean Architecture
By: Robert C. Martin
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Building upon the success of best-sellers The Clean Coder and Clean Code, legendary software crafts… read more
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- computers
- programming
- computer science
- coding
- nonfiction
- technical
- software
- technology
"The only way to go fast, is to go well."-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture
"All race conditions, deadlock conditions, and concurrent update problems are due to mutable variables."-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture
"I'm a programmer. I like programming. And the best way I've found to have a positive impact on code is to write it."-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture
"Any organisation that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organisation's communication structure"-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture
19. Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
By: David Farley
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Improve Your Creativity, Effectiveness, and Ultimately, Your Code In Modern Software Engineering, … read more
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- computer science
- technical
- coding
- nonfiction
- programming
- software
- technology
20. 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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- computer science
- technical
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- nonfiction
- programming
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21. Eigen welzijn eerst
By: Roxane van Iperen
3.89
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Nederland heeft lang een zelfbeeld van openheid en tolerantie gehad. Dat beeld kwam voort uit het n… read more
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- nonfiction
22. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
By: Will Larson
4.10
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part o… read more
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- computer science
- technical
- nonfiction
- programming
- software
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23. The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
By: Shane Parrish
4.08
Format: 216 pages, Audiobook
The old saying goes, "To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." But anyone who has d… read more
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"The quality of our thinking is largely influenced by the mental models in our heads. While we want accurate models, we also want a wide variety of models to uncover what’s really happening. The key h…"-Shane Parrish, The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
24. 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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- computer science
- technical
- nonfiction
- programming
- software
- technology
25. 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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- computers
- computer science
- technical
- nonfiction
- programming
- software
- technology
26. 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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- computers
- programming
- computer science
- coding
- nonfiction
- technical
- software
- technology
27. Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
By: Neal Ford
3.76
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing a constant stream of new tools… read more
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- computer science
- technical
- nonfiction
- programming
- software
- reference
- technology
"For any dimension in our architecture that requires protection from the side effects of evolution, we create fitness functions. A common practice in microservices architectures is the use of consumer…"-Neal Ford, Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
"Even if the ecosystem doesn’t change, what about the gradual erosion of architectural characteristics that occurs? Architects design architectures, but then expose them to the messy real world of imp…"-Neal Ford, Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
"By placing an external tool or framework at the heart of the architecture, developers severely restrict their ability to evolve in two key ways, both technically and from a business process standpoin…"-Neal Ford, Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
"Metrics are a common adjunct to the deployment pipeline in incremental change environments. If teams use this effort as a proof-of-concept, developers should gather appropriate metrics for both befor…"-Neal Ford, Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
28. Software Architecture Metrics
By: Christian Ciceri
3.41
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Software architecture metrics are key to the maintainability and architectural quality of a softwar… read more
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- computers
- technical
- nonfiction
- programming
- software
- technology
29. Observability Engineering: Achieving Production Excellence
By: Charity Majors
3.77
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Observability is critical for engineering, managing, and improving complex business-critical system… read more
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- computers
- computer science
- technical
- nonfiction
- programming
- software
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30. Building Maintainable Software
By: Joost Visser
3.75
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Have you ever felt frustrated working with someone else's code? Difficult-to-maintain source code i… read more
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31. Free Speech Handbook: A Practical Framework for Understanding Our Free Speech Protections (World Citizen Comics)
By: Ian Rosenberg
4.24
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this volume of the World Citizen Comics series, Ian Rosenberg and Mike Cavallaro create a practi… read more
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