2023 Reading List

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For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well--or … - Selection from The Staff Engineer's Path [Book]

The ideal code review process differs from organization to organization, but the needs all boil down to the same foundational factors. A software development team cannot properly grow if its … - Selection from Implementing Effective Code Reviews: How to Build and Maintain Clean Code [Book]

In this insightful and comprehensive guide, Addy Osmani shares more than a decade of experience working on the Chrome team at Google, uncovering secrets to engineering effectiveness, efficiency, and team … - Selection from Leading Effective Engineering Teams [Book]

Many people think leadership is a higher calling that resides exclusively with a select few who practice and preach big, complex leadership philosophies. But as this practical book reveals, what’s … - Selection from The Art of Leadership [Book]

Having a great idea or design is not enough to make your software project succeed. If you want stakeholders to buy into your design and teams to collaborate and contribute … - Selection from Communication Patterns [Book]

Organizations big and small have started to realize just how crucial system and application reliability is to their business. Theyâ??ve also learned just how difficult it is to maintain that … - Selection from Seeking SRE [Book]

The overwhelming majority of a software system's lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the … - Selection from Site Reliability Engineering [Book]

A hands-on field guide to consistently creating page-turning content that your audience loves. (And that delivers real results.) In the newly revised and updated edition of Everybody Writes, marketer and … - Selection from Everybody Writes, 2nd Edition [Book]

ISO House Style specifies the language, formatting and presentation of ISO documents: editorial elements that are outside the scope of the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2. It is intended to be used alongside the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2 and generally does not duplicate its content, although some relevant sections have been reproduced in order to add further details.

How to Reduce Code Complexity and Develop Software More Sustainably “Mark Seemann is well known for explaining complex concepts clearly and thoroughly. In this book he condenses his wide-ranging software … - Selection from Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering [Book]

“Kill it with fire,” the typical first reaction to a legacy system falling into obsolescence, is a knee-jerk approach that often burns through tons of money and time only to … - Selection from Kill It with Fire [Book]

A decade ago, developers built information-sharing software by writing a lot of custom code in a single code base, then adding layers of caching. Now we build information systems: interdependent … - Selection from Learning Systems Thinking [Book]

Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This book provides the first...

Often, software engineers and architects work with large, complex code bases that they need to scale and maintain. With this cookbook, author Maximiliano Contieri takes you beyond the concept of … - Selection from Clean Code Cookbook [Book]

Messy code is a nuisance. "Tidying" code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it up into manageable sections. In this practical guide, author Kent Beck, creator of Extreme Programming … - Selection from Tidy First? [Book]

Today, software engineers need to know not only how to program effectively but also how to develop proper engineering practices to make their codebase sustainable and healthy. This book emphasizes … - Selection from Software Engineering at Google [Book]

Making significant changes to large, complex codebases is a daunting task--one that's nearly impossible to do successfully unless you have the right team, tools, and mindset. If your application is … - Selection from Refactoring at Scale [Book]

Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of … - Selection from Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship [Book]

In Five Lines of Code you will learn: The signs of bad code Improving code safely, even when you don’t understand it Balancing optimization and code generality Proper compiler practices … - Selection from Five Lines of Code [Book]

A single dramatic software failure can cost a company millions of dollars - but can be avoided with simple changes to design and architecture. This new edition of the best-selling … - Selection from Release It!, 2nd Edition [Book]

Shape Up will help you break free of “best practices” that aren’t really working, think deeper about the right problems, and start shipping meaningful projects your team can celebrate.

“Shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.” —Jack Welch Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to “maximize shareholder value.” In … - Selection from The Shareholder Value Myth [Book]

There has been a growing interest among scholars in the fields of organizational behaviour and industrial psychology in what can be termed "the dark side of the organizations." A main … - Selection from Counterproductive Work Behaviors [Book]

When users try your product for the first time, what keeps them coming back? Onboarding can make the difference between abandoned accounts and devoted use—if we design it as a … - Selection from Better Onboarding [Book]

Run engaging, productive group sessions with practical guidance and expert advice Running Great Workshops & Meetings For Dummies delivers the tools managers need to facilitate engaging and rewarding group sessions. … - Selection from Running Great Meetings and Workshops For Dummies [Book]

Product management naturally incorporates empathy, psychology, and thinking outside the box in pursuit of the best design for products. But how often do you apply those same skills to your … - Selection from Aligned [Book]

Want happier, more successful project teams? Better-run meetings will help get you there. Project leaders are “get it done” people, so we often dislike, avoid, and/or fail to properly plan … - Selection from Great Meetings Build Great Teams [Book]

A person who works exclusively in staff jobs throughout a career is less likely to develop important leadership competencies than a person who works exclusively in line jobs. This report … - Selection from Twenty-Two Ways to Develop Leadership in Staff Managers [Book]

Develop customized, scalable web apps through the integration of powerful Node.js frameworks In Detail Node.js is a JavaScript runtime-based, scalable platform used to develop web applications and network programs on … - Selection from Building Scalable Apps with Redis and Node.js [Book]

Express in Action is a carefully designed tutorial that teaches you how to build web applications using Node and Express. About the TechnologyExpress.js is a web application framework for … - Selection from Express in Action [Book]

Take your application to the next level of high performance using the extensive capabilities of Node.js About This Book Analyze, benchmark, and profile your Node.js application to find slow spots, … - Selection from Node.js High Performance [Book]

Node.js in Practice is a collection of fully tested examples that offer solutions to the common and not-so-common issues you face when you roll out Node. You'll dig into important … - Selection from Node.js in Practice [Book]

Many companies, from startups to Fortune 500 companies alike, use Node.js to build performant backend services. And engineers love Node.js for its approachable API and familiar syntax. Backed by the … - Selection from Distributed Systems with Node.js [Book]

TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript with the potential to solve many of the headaches for which JavaScript is famous. But TypeScript has a learning curve of its own, … - Selection from Effective TypeScript [Book]

Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets. This … - Selection from Redis Cookbook [Book]

Use GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automating and deploying different steps of your software development lifecycle using best practices and troubleshooting methods. Key Features Reap the power of GitLab CI/CD pipelines … - Selection from Automating DevOps with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines [Book]

Why are so many companies adopting GitOps for their DevOps and cloud native strategy? This reliable framework is quickly becoming the standard method for deploying apps to Kubernetes. With this … - Selection from GitOps Cookbook [Book]

Get up to speed with Helm, the preeminent package manager for the Kubernetes container orchestration system. This practical guide shows you how to efficiently create, install, and manage the applications … - Selection from Learning Helm [Book]

This guide has recipes for automating Web Performance measurement with Puppeteer.

Leverage Splunk's operational intelligence capabilities to unlock new hidden business insights and drive successAbout This Book Tackle any problems related to searching and analyzing your data with Splunk Get … - Selection from Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook - Third Edition [Book]

Use this practical guide to the Splunk operational data intelligence platform to search, visualize, and analyze petabyte-scale, unstructured machine data. Get to the heart of the platform and use the … - Selection from Practical Splunk Search Processing Language: A Guide for Mastering SPL Commands for Maximum Efficiency and Outcome [Book]

Learn all you need to know about seven key innovations disrupting business analytics today. These innovations—the open source business model, cloud analytics, the Hadoop ecosystem, Spark and in-memory analytics, streaming … - Selection from Disruptive Analytics: Charting Your Strategy for Next-Generation Business Analytics [Book]

Get up to speed with Prometheus, the metrics-based monitoring system used in production by tens of thousands of organizations. This updated second edition provides site reliability engineers, Kubernetes administrators, and … - Selection from Prometheus: Up & Running, 2nd Edition [Book]