The Barnes & Noble Review Time was, all database design books were packed with mathematics and jargon. You d be up to your neck in normal forms before you even had a chance to wade. When Michael J. Her…
Shelve Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design
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)
From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing W…
Shelve Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Getting an MBA is an expensive choice-one almost impossible to justify regardless of the state of the economy. Even the elite schools like Harvard and Wharton offer outdated, assembly-line programs th…
Shelve The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wrigh…
Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative b…
Improve Your Creativity, Effectiveness, and Ultimately, Your Code In Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David Farley helps software professionals think about their work more…
Shelve Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he h…
Shelve Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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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
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a w…
Shelve Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
A thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is o…
Shelve The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
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…
A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern “libertarian” economics of the ty…
From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human way to live” (Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author) that examines the “laziness lie”—which …
Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at it. Tech companies in general lack the experience, tools, texts, and frameworks to do it well. And the…
Shelve The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Machine learning systems are both complex and unique. Complex because they consist of many different components and involve many different stakeholders. Unique because they're data dependent, with dat…
Shelve Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications
Bill Karwin has helped thousands of people write better SQL and build stronger relational databases. Now he’s sharing his collection of antipatterns—the most common errors he’s identified in those tho…
Shelve SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming (Pragmatic Programmers)
Based on a career of making high-stakes, split-second decisions as a U.S. fighter pilot, The Art of Clear Thinking teaches readers to apply Hasard Lee's combat-tes…
Shelve The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions
‘In a crowded field of life advice and even life advice based on scientific research, Schulz and Waldinger stand apart’ Angela Duckworth, author of Grit What is the key to a good life?
It is a question…
Shelve The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Most organizations with a web presence build and operate APIsâ??the doorway for customers to interact with the companyâ??s services. Designing, building, and managing these critical programs affect ev…
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…
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
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
"A concise and balanced mix of principles and pragmatics. I loved the tutorial-style game-like program development. This book rekindled my earliest joys of programming. Plus, JavaScript!" —Brendan Eic…
Shelve Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
An algorithm is nothing more than a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem. The algorithms you'll use most often as a programmer have already been discovered, tested, and proven. If you want to …
Shelve Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People
To most of us, learning something “the hard way” implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use st…
Shelve Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
