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A small collection of (mostly) evergreen books that cover the fundamentals for success in rapidly growing software organizations.
Topics include: interpersonal skills, business models, management, foundations of computer science, principles of modern software, and a few widely used modern tools.
Topics include: interpersonal skills, business models, management, foundations of computer science, principles of modern software, and a few widely used modern tools.
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The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
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Essential Software Development
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
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Unit Testing: Principles, Practices, and Patterns
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Vladimir Khorikov (Goodreads Author)
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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Micro Frontends in Action
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Michael Geers (Goodreads Author)
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Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
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Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
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Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (The Strategyzer Series 1)
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Alexander Osterwalder (Goodreads Author)
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
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Head First Design Patterns
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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
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The Effective Executive
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Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
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Gayle Laakmann McDowell (Goodreads Author)
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Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
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Angela Duckworth (Goodreads Author)
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
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Martin Kleppmann (Goodreads Author)
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System Design Interview – An insider's guide
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Engineering Leadership Interviews: Lessons Learned and Best Practices Gathered from Interviews with Top Engineering Leaders Around the World
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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Pro React 16
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Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology
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Gayle Laakmann McDowell (Goodreads Author)
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Kubernetes in Action
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TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
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Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
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Continuous delivery
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Jez Humble (Goodreads Author)
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The Elements Of Computing Systems: Building A Modern Computer From First Principles
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Threat Modeling: Designing for Security
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Adam Shostack (Goodreads Author)
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Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions
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The Art of UNIX Programming
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Algorithms
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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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James Gleick (Goodreads Author)
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Modern Operating Systems
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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Brian Christian (Goodreads Author)
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Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
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A Little History of Economics
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Niall Kishtainy (Goodreads Author)
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Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
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Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
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