Technology & Design
The Design of Everyday Things: When the User Is Not at Fault
From doors that are difficult to open to software interfaces, Don Norman shows how good design makes right actions easy to understand and mistakes easy to recover from.
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Skills & Career Development
Range: Why Generalists Matter in a World of Specialists
David Epstein argues that varied experiences can help people transfer ideas across fields, especially when familiar patterns offer little guidance.
Data architecture
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: understand data systems before choosing technology
A ground map of the reliability, scalability, data models, and trade-offs of distributed systems.
Software engineering
The Pragmatic Programmer: what mindset helps programmers make sustainable progress?
Evaluate the enduring principles of accountability, feedback, automation, and adaptability in the software development profession.
Science fiction
Dune: a sci-fi epic about ecology, power and heroic myth
Decoding the world of Arrakis through its resources, religion, colonies and how the novel questions the image of the savior.
Technology careers
Staff Engineer: A Path to Technical Leadership Beyond Management
A map of the impact, scope, and types of senior engineering roles that are often vaguely described.
Software engineering
Software Engineering at Google: Building Code to Last at Scale
The difference between programming and software engineering lies in longevity, scale, and organizational trade-offs.
DevOps & Technical Administration
Accelerate: Measuring DevOps with Evidence, Not Slogans
Research that makes software delivery performance more measurable, while leaving room for context and judgment.
DevOps & Operations
Release It!: designing for the day systems fail
Production does not fail like a test environment; Isolation and recovery capabilities must be designed from the ground up.