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Required reading for software development professionals
A collection of important books for anyone that wishes to become a respectable software engineer.
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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Martin Kleppmann (Goodreads Author)
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
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Andy Hunt (Goodreads Author)
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
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Effective Java
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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
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Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author)
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Clean Architecture
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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Head First Design Patterns
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Introduction to System Design
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Shivam Singh (Goodreads Author)
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Introduction to Algorithms
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel
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Paul Butcher (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming
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Luciano Ramalho (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 1,740 ratings
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Java Concurrency in Practice
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code
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Michael C. Feathers (Goodreads Author)
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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A Philosophy of Software Design
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Joel on Software
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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
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Andy Hunt (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 4,375 ratings
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Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
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Programming Pearls
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Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions
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Gregor Hohpe (Goodreads Author)
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Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
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Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development
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Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
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Continuous delivery
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Jez Humble (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 3,292 ratings
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Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
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Code Reviews 101
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Giuliana Carullo (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 11 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 — 1,762 ratings
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Domain Modeling Made Functional: Tackle Software Complexity with Domain-Driven Design and F#
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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Brian Christian (Goodreads Author)
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Object Design Style Guide
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Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
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Debugging Teams: Better Productivity through Collaboration
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The Elements Of Computing Systems: Building A Modern Computer From First Principles
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Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14
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Learning Scala: Practical Functional Programming for the JVM
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Kubernetes in Action
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Building RESTful Web services with Go: Learn how to build powerful RESTful APIs with Golang that scale gracefully
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Naren Yellavula (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings
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ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty fun games to code and learn
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Gary Plowman (Goodreads Author)
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The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering
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OOP Concepts Booster : Take Your Coding Skills to the Next Level
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Kafka: The Definitive Guide: Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale
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Game Engine Black Book: Doom
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Fabien Sanglard (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 389 ratings
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HTML and CSS QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginners Guide to Developing a Strong Coding Foundation, Building Responsive Websites, and Mastering ...
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Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
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Betsy Beyer (Editor)
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Essential Software Development
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Notes on the Synthesis of Form
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Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patterns
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Mark Seemann (Goodreads Author)
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Practical Tla+: Design-Driven Programming
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set
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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
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Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP: Implement Robust, Fault-Tolerant Systems
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The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
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Tanya Reilly (Goodreads Author)
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Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
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Jeff Sutherland (Goodreads Author)
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Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think
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Design and Evolution of C++, The
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New Programmer's Survival Manual: Navigate Your Workplace, Cube Farm, or Startup
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Joshua Carter (Goodreads Author)
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Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
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Programming Groovy 2
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Amazon Web Services in Action
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Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
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Java 8 in Action
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Docker in Action
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Version Control with Git
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The Go Programming Language
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Unicode Explained: Internationalize Documents, Programs, and Web Sites
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