Technology & Programming books worth reading

10 books I've read in Technology & Programming, rated and reviewed honestly.

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The Phoenix Project

by Gene Kim · 2013

Organizations improve when development, operations and the business optimize the flow of work across the entire system instead of optimizing isolated departments.

Code

by Charles Petzold · 1999

Complex computing systems become understandable when you trace them back to simple layers of representation, logic, hardware and abstraction.

The Mythical Man-Month

by Frederick P. Brooks · 1975

Software development doesn't scale like manufacturing; adding people to a late project can increase complexity and communication overhead rather than simply adding productivity.

Refactoring

by Martin Fowler · 1999

Software can evolve safely by continuously improving its internal structure without changing its external behavior.

Clean Code

by Robert C. Martin · 2008

Code should be written primarily for humans to understand and maintain, not merely for computers to execute.

The Pragmatic Programmer

by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas · 1999

One of those books that teaches the mindset of a good software engineer rather than any particular technology. Principles like code ownership, automation, simplicity and continuous learning are still very much applicable.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppmann · 2017

The most technical book on this list, and one of the most valuable. Outstanding for understanding distributed systems, databases, replication, consistency and system architecture. Not a book to read — a book to study.

Don't Make Me Think

by Steve Krug · 2000

One of the best UX books for grasping a simple principle: a user should never have to spend extra thought just to use your product. Short, practical, and still entirely relevant to web and product design.

Nexus

by Yuval Noah Harari · 2024

An interesting look at the relationship between information, networks, power and AI. The ideas are compelling, but as in some of Harari's other work, the narrative occasionally runs ahead of the evidence.

Just for Fun

by Linus Torvalds & David Diamond · 2001

Less a technical book than the story of how Linux came about, and of how Torvalds thinks about programming and work. Its appeal is exactly that informal, human account.

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