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1	Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (Goodreads Author) 4.69 avg rating — 11,268 ratings score: 4,475, and 45 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin 4.35 avg rating — 23,800 ratings score: 2,081, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andy Hunt (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 24,587 ratings score: 1,782, and 18 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma 4.20 avg rating — 12,053 ratings score: 1,571, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Effective Java by Joshua Bloch 4.51 avg rating — 8,109 ratings score: 1,154, and 12 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Great Principles of Computing by Peter J. Denning (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 42 ratings score: 1,100, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 9,510 ratings score: 973, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin 4.21 avg rating — 7,285 ratings score: 927, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. 4.01 avg rating — 15,309 ratings score: 871, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman 4.30 avg rating — 9,084 ratings score: 780, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Introduction to System Design by Shivam Singh (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 41 ratings score: 600, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen 4.35 avg rating — 9,396 ratings score: 580, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson 4.47 avg rating — 4,879 ratings score: 578, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series) by Martin Fowler 4.24 avg rating — 8,881 ratings score: 476, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel by Paul Butcher (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 351 ratings score: 455, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming by Luciano Ramalho (Goodreads Author) 4.61 avg rating — 1,845 ratings score: 453, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz 4.48 avg rating — 2,924 ratings score: 449, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 4,692 ratings score: 445, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim 4.25 avg rating — 51,346 ratings score: 441, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout 4.22 avg rating — 4,913 ratings score: 388, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky 4.13 avg rating — 3,384 ratings score: 376, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 4,386 ratings score: 375, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael T. Nygard 4.25 avg rating — 3,281 ratings score: 374, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Programming Pearls by Jon L. Bentley 4.20 avg rating — 3,227 ratings score: 365, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Gregor Hohpe (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 1,557 ratings score: 364, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Code Reviews 101 by Giuliana Carullo (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 299, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact by Edmond Lau (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 1,811 ratings score: 297, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Domain Modeling Made Functional: Tackle Software Complexity with Domain-Driven Design and F# by Scott Wlaschin 4.49 avg rating — 684 ratings score: 295, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 36,058 ratings score: 294, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Object Design Style Guide by Matthias Noback 4.32 avg rating — 139 ratings score: 291, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems by Sam Newman 4.22 avg rating — 5,269 ratings score: 289, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Mark Richards 4.23 avg rating — 2,390 ratings score: 286, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development by Jim Blandy 4.62 avg rating — 605 ratings score: 283, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Debugging Teams: Better Productivity through Collaboration by Brian W. Fitzpatrick 4.07 avg rating — 799 ratings score: 282, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael T. Nygard 4.25 avg rating — 3,281 ratings score: 278, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Elements Of Computing Systems: Building A Modern Computer From First Principles by Noam Nisan 4.54 avg rating — 993 ratings score: 275, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14 by Scott Meyers 4.56 avg rating — 1,614 ratings score: 270, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Continuous delivery by Jez Humble (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 3,321 ratings score: 267, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck)) by Steve Freeman 4.19 avg rating — 2,468 ratings score: 265, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Learning Scala: Practical Functional Programming for the JVM by Jason Swartz 3.69 avg rating — 71 ratings score: 242, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Kubernetes in Action: Deploying and managing containers and cloud-native applications by Marko Luksa 4.58 avg rating — 697 ratings score: 231, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Building RESTful Web services with Go: Learn how to build powerful RESTful APIs with Golang that scale gracefully by Naren Yellavula (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty fun games to code and learn by Gary Plowman (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering by Ivar Jacobson 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 194, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	OOP Concepts Booster : Take Your Coding Skills to the Next Level by Rakesh Singh 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 192, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Kafka: The Definitive Guide: Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale by Neha Narkhede 4.15 avg rating — 733 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Game Engine Black Book: Doom by Fabien Sanglard (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 404 ratings score: 189, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	HTML and CSS QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginners Guide to Developing a Strong Coding Foundation, Building Responsive Websites, and Mastering ... by David Durocher 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 187, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems by Betsy Beyer (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 2,965 ratings score: 186, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Essential Software Development by AppJungle NET LLC 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 185, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Fuckup Almanac. Volume 1: Foundations of the Digital World by Adam Korga (Goodreads Author) 4.90 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 183, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	A Fractured I.T. by Maurice Johnson (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 182, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher W. Alexander 4.07 avg rating — 772 ratings score: 179, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patterns by Mark Seemann (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 793 ratings score: 178, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Practical Tla+: Design-Driven Programming by Hillel Wayne 3.85 avg rating — 67 ratings score: 175, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set by Donald Ervin Knuth 4.75 avg rating — 237 ratings score: 174, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka 4.36 avg rating — 3,023 ratings score: 173, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP: Implement Robust, Fault-Tolerant Systems by Francesco Cesarini 4.43 avg rating — 83 ratings score: 171, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change by Tanya Reilly (Goodreads Author) 4.37 avg rating — 2,312 ratings score: 170, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 23,990 ratings score: 168, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think by Marian Petre 3.55 avg rating — 209 ratings score: 166, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Design and Evolution of C++, The by Bjarne Stroustrup 4.29 avg rating — 331 ratings score: 165, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	New Programmer's Survival Manual: Navigate Your Workplace, Cube Farm, or Startup by Joshua Carter (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 115 ratings score: 161, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design by Brett McLaughlin 3.99 avg rating — 932 ratings score: 149, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Programming Groovy 2 by Venkat Subramaniam 3.75 avg rating — 134 ratings score: 147, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Amazon Web Services in Action by Michael Wittig 3.70 avg rating — 254 ratings score: 145, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz 4.53 avg rating — 2,829 ratings score: 144, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Java 8 in Action by Raoul-Gabriel Urma 4.34 avg rating — 709 ratings score: 142, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Docker in Action by Jeff Nickoloff 3.81 avg rating — 267 ratings score: 140, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	Version Control with Git by Jon Loeliger 3.90 avg rating — 764 ratings score: 136, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	The Go Programming Language by Alan A.A. Donovan 4.43 avg rating — 1,789 ratings score: 134, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	Unicode Explained: Internationalize Documents, Programs, and Web Sites by Jukka K. Korpela 3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 131, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars