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Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
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Building a Career in Software: A Comprehensive Guide to Success in the Software Industry
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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The Coding Career Handbook. Guides, Principles, Strategies, and Tactics – from Code Newbie to Senior Dev
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Understanding Distributed Systems: What every developer should know about large distributed applications
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Roberto Vitillo (Goodreads Author)
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14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers
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Zeno Rocha (Goodreads Author)
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Essential Software Development
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IT Dictionary: A survival manual for devs, dreamers, and those still pretending their job has structure.
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design
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Communication for Engineers: A framework for software developers to become better communicators and increase their happiness, productivity, and impact
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Chris Laffra (Goodreads Author)
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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
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Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author)
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The Psychology of Everyday Things
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Good Code, Bad Code: Think like a software engineer
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Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
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Seriously Good Software: Code that works, survives, and wins
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Marco Faella (Goodreads Author)
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Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
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The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
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Edmond Lau (Goodreads Author)
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The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development
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Chad Fowler (Goodreads Author)
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The Programmer's Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition
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Felienne Hermans (Goodreads Author)
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The Psychology of Computer Programming
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Software Craftsman, The: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride (Robert C. Martin Series)
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Sandro Mancuso (Goodreads Author)
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The Timeless Way of Building
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code
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Michael C. Feathers (Goodreads Author)
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