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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 502 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,630 ratings — published 1999
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 493 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 23,836 ratings — published 2007
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 401 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.69 — 11,351 ratings — published 2015
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by (shelved 348 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,887 ratings — published 1999
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,327 ratings — published 1975
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 326 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 12,055 ratings — published 1994
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,515 ratings — published 1993
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,302 ratings — published 2017
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 277 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,917 ratings — published 2003
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,952 ratings — published 2018
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,360 ratings — published 2011
Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,694 ratings — published 2004
Head First Design Patterns (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,094 ratings — published 2004
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,048 ratings — published 2020
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,274 ratings — published 2014
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,461 ratings — published 2013
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,406 ratings — published 2020
Test-Driven Development: By Example (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,427 ratings — published 2002
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,901 ratings — published 2002
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 148 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,638 ratings — published 2020
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
by (shelved 141 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,282 ratings — published 2007
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,331 ratings — published
Continuous delivery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,324 ratings — published 2010
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,409 ratings — published 1989
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,989 ratings — published 1987
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (The XP Series)
by (shelved 121 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,110 ratings — published 1999
Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,654 ratings — published 2015
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,334 ratings — published 2022
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 934 ratings — published 2021
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 110 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,234 ratings — published
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,002 ratings — published 2015
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,968 ratings — published 2016
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,879 ratings — published 1984
Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,254 ratings — published
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,917 ratings — published 1999
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck))
by (shelved 97 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,468 ratings — published 2009
Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,947 ratings — published 2008
Effective Java (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.51 — 8,114 ratings — published 2001
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,726 ratings — published 2017
Programming Pearls (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,230 ratings — published 1986
Refactoring to Patterns (Addison Wesley Signature Series)
by (shelved 83 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,439 ratings — published 2004
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,812 ratings — published 2015
Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,116 ratings — published
Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.43 — 810 ratings — published 2021
Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))
by (shelved 72 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,557 ratings — published 2003
Understanding Distributed Systems: What every developer should know about large distributed applications (ebook)
by (shelved 68 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.37 — 555 ratings — published
Implementing Domain-Driven Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,314 ratings — published 2013
Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices (Alan Apt Series)
by (shelved 67 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,323 ratings — published 2002
The Unicorn Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,444 ratings — published 2019
The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 890 ratings — published 2023
“It doesn’t take a huge amount of knowledge and skill to get a program working.
Kids in high school do it all the time.
Getting it right is another matter entirely.
When software is done right, it requires a fraction of the human resources to
create and maintain.”
― Clean Architecture
Kids in high school do it all the time.
Getting it right is another matter entirely.
When software is done right, it requires a fraction of the human resources to
create and maintain.”
― Clean Architecture
“Understanding the foundational principles of cloud computing is essential for designing and developing solutions in the cloud.”
― Learning Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing and Development Fundamentals
― Learning Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing and Development Fundamentals












