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2025 Software Development Interview List
Books I need to read through for interviewing this year.
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100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
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Teiva Harsanyi (Goodreads Author)
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Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI: A Practical Approach to Developing Context-Rich Generative AI Applications
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AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models
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Chip Huyen (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications
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Chip Huyen (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 921 ratings
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The Developer's Playbook for Large Language Model Security: Building Secure AI Applications
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Build a Large Language Model
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Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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Martin Kleppmann (Goodreads Author)
4.70 avg rating — 10,103 ratings
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Generative AI in Action
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Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines to Paint, Write, Compose, and Play
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David Foster (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Natural Language Processing with Transformers: Building Language Applications with Hugging Face
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How AI Works: From Sorcery to Science
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Ronald T. Kneusel (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Database Internals: A deep-dive into how distributed data systems work
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Alex Petrov (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 526 ratings
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Kafka: The Definitive Guide: Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale
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High Performance Browser Networking
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Ilya Grigorik (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 840 ratings
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Rust for Rustaceans
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Jon Gjengset (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Python Workout
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Pandas Workout
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Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming
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Luciano Ramalho (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 1,737 ratings
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