2025 Software Development Interview List (19 books)

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1		AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models by Chip Huyen (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 1,395 ratings score: 198, 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
2		100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them by Teiva Harsanyi (Goodreads Author) 4.66 avg rating — 264 ratings score: 100, and 1 person 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		Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI: A Practical Approach to Developing Context-Rich Generative AI Applications by Ali Parandeh really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 99, and 1 person 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		Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications by Chip Huyen (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 1,186 ratings score: 97, and 1 person 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		The Developer's Playbook for Large Language Model Security: Building Secure AI Applications by Steve Wilson 3.69 avg rating — 42 ratings score: 96, and 1 person 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		Build a Large Language Model by Sebastian Raschka 4.58 avg rating — 387 ratings score: 95, and 1 person 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		Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation by Jay Alammar 4.31 avg rating — 306 ratings score: 94, and 1 person 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		Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (Goodreads Author) 4.69 avg rating — 11,269 ratings score: 93, and 1 person 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		Generative AI in Action by Amit Bahree 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 92, and 1 person 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		Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines to Paint, Write, Compose, and Play by David Foster (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 270 ratings score: 91, and 1 person 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		Natural Language Processing with Transformers: Building Language Applications with Hugging Face by Lewis Tunstall 4.35 avg rating — 220 ratings score: 90, and 1 person 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		How AI Works: From Sorcery to Science by Ronald T. Kneusel (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 203 ratings score: 89, and 1 person 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		Database Internals: A deep-dive into how distributed data systems work by Alex Petrov (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 598 ratings score: 88, and 1 person 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		Kafka: The Definitive Guide: Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale by Neha Narkhede 4.15 avg rating — 733 ratings score: 87, and 1 person 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		High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 864 ratings score: 86, and 1 person 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		Rust for Rustaceans by Jon Gjengset (Goodreads Author) 4.52 avg rating — 338 ratings score: 85, and 1 person 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		Python Workout by Reuven M. Lerner 4.14 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 84, and 1 person 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		Pandas Workout by Reuven Lerner 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 83, and 1 person 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		Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming by Luciano Ramalho (Goodreads Author) 4.61 avg rating — 1,845 ratings score: 82, and 1 person 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 books · 2 voters · list created August 18th, 2025 by Vinay Keerthi (votes) .

Tags: artificial-engineering, software-development, technology

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