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Software Engineering Books
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 483 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,159 ratings — published 1999
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 482 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 23,496 ratings — published 2007
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 367 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.70 — 10,683 ratings — published 2015
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by (shelved 343 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,850 ratings — published 1999
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,124 ratings — published 1975
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 322 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,957 ratings — published 1994
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 275 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,118 ratings — published 2017
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 274 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,488 ratings — published 1993
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 273 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,823 ratings — published 2003
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,273 ratings — published 2011
Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,679 ratings — published 2004
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,563 ratings — published 2018
Head First Design Patterns (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,028 ratings — published 2004
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,967 ratings — published 2020
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,208 ratings — published 2014
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 50,243 ratings — published 2013
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,891 ratings — published 2002
Test-Driven Development: By Example (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,406 ratings — published 2002
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,245 ratings — published 2020
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 139 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,380 ratings — published 2020
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
by (shelved 136 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,257 ratings — published 2007
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,143 ratings — published
Continuous delivery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,311 ratings — published 2010
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,334 ratings — published 1989
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,924 ratings — published 1987
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (The XP Series)
by (shelved 120 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,092 ratings — published 1999
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 106 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,080 ratings — published
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,912 ratings — published 2016
Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,438 ratings — published 2015
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,121 ratings — published 2022
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.27 — 849 ratings — published 2021
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,900 ratings — published 2015
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,864 ratings — published 1984
Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,174 ratings — published
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck))
by (shelved 97 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,464 ratings — published 2009
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,629 ratings — published 1999
Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,921 ratings — published 2008
Effective Java (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.51 — 8,074 ratings — published 2001
Refactoring to Patterns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,438 ratings — published 2004
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,396 ratings — published 2017
Programming Pearls (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,224 ratings — published 1986
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,786 ratings — published 2015
Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,097 ratings — published
Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))
by (shelved 70 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,547 ratings — published 2003
Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,319 ratings — published 2002
Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.43 — 748 ratings — published
Understanding Distributed Systems: What every developer should know about large distributed applications (ebook)
by (shelved 65 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.38 — 535 ratings — published
Implementing Domain-Driven Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,298 ratings — published 2013
The Unicorn Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,169 ratings — published 2019
Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as software-engineering)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,843 ratings — published
“SΦRT = Return Set Time In Order”
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“By placing an external tool or framework at the heart of the architecture, developers severely restrict their ability to evolve in two key ways, both technically and from a business process standpoint. Developers are technically constrained by choices the vendor makes in terms of persistence, supported infrastructure, and a host of other constraints.”
― Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
― Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change












