Whether it's in Java, .NET, or Ruby on Rails, getting your application ready to ship is only half the battle. Did you design your system to survivef a sudden rush of visitors from Digg or Slashdot? Or…
Shelve Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, w…
Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process--taking a …
Shelve The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code…
Shelve Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Building upon the success of best-sellers The Clean Coder and Clean Code, legendary software craftsman Robert C. "Uncle Bob" Martin shows how to bring greater professionalism and discipline to applica…
Although salary surveys worldwide regularly identify software architect as one of the top ten best jobs, no decent guides exist to help developers become architects. Until now. This practical guide pr…
Shelve Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult problems or issues with no best practices--that force you to choose among various compromises. With …
Shelve Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices. But developing these systems brings i…
Shelve Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
"This book is a breakthrough, a lyrical, powerful, science-based narrative that actually shows us how to get better (much better) at the things we care about."--Seth Godin, author of Linchpin
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Shelve Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
"Eric Evans has written a fantastic book on how you can make the design of your software match your mental model of the problem domain you are addressing. "His book is very compatible with XP. It is n…
Shelve Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Messy code is a nuisance. "Tidying" code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it up into manageable sections. In this practical guide, author Kent Beck, creator of Extreme Programming and pion…
Shelve Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design
Does technology actually matter? And how can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter—that it can't provid…
Shelve Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
This book addresses the topic of software how to decompose complex software systems into modules (such as classes and methods) that can be implemented relatively independently. The book first introduc…
Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers …
Shelve The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The approach to and understanding of software engineering at Google is unlike any other company. With this book, you'll get a candid and insightful look at how software is constructed and maintained b…
Shelve Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
”This book takes an impossibly broad area of computer science and communicates what working developers need to understand in a clear and thorough way.” - David Jacobs, Product Advance Local
For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the indus…
Shelve The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaste…
Shelve The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
As the application of object technology—particularly the Java programming language—has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers…
Shelve Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
