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Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track
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Will Larson (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 2,920 ratings
score: 389,
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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)
4.70 avg rating — 10,106 ratings
score: 295,
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
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Andy Hunt (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 23,633 ratings
score: 280,
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Building a Career in Software: A Comprehensive Guide to Success in the Software Industry
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4.21 avg rating — 164 ratings
score: 197,
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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4.24 avg rating — 8,780 ratings
score: 190,
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The Coding Career Handbook. Guides, Principles, Strategies, and Tactics – from Code Newbie to Senior Dev
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4.39 avg rating — 127 ratings
score: 185,
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Understanding Distributed Systems: What every developer should know about large distributed applications
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Roberto Vitillo (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 514 ratings
score: 181,
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14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers
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Zeno Rocha (Goodreads Author)
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score: 100,
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Essential Software Development
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4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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4.36 avg rating — 23,082 ratings
score: 98,
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About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design
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4.07 avg rating — 3,523 ratings
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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)
4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 97,
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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
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Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 9,441 ratings
score: 97,
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The Psychology of Everyday Things
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4.15 avg rating — 46,754 ratings
score: 96,
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Good Code, Bad Code: Think like a software engineer
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
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4.17 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
score: 94,
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Seriously Good Software: Code that works, survives, and wins
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Marco Faella (Goodreads Author)
3.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 92,
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Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
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4.20 avg rating — 1,903 ratings
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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)
4.25 avg rating — 1,761 ratings
score: 88,
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The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development
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Chad Fowler (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 4,347 ratings
score: 87,
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The Programmer's Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition
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Felienne Hermans (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 396 ratings
score: 85,
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The Psychology of Computer Programming
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4.07 avg rating — 602 ratings
score: 84,
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Software Craftsman, The: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride (Robert C. Martin Series)
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Sandro Mancuso (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 958 ratings
score: 83,
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The Timeless Way of Building
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4.37 avg rating — 2,586 ratings
score: 82,
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code
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Michael C. Feathers (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 4,649 ratings
score: 80,
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list created February 6th, 2022
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