Book Review: Fundamentals of Software Architecture
provide an excellent overview of the various architecture styles providing clear rationale behind the decisions made by each of them and why they are better in certain contexts.
Book Reviews
Book Review: Monolith to Microservices
A well-written book on the different problems that you are likely to encounter when migrating from a monolith to a distributed systems microservices architecture.
Book Review: Implementing Domain Driven Design
Implementing Domain-Driven Design presents a top-down approach to understanding domain-driven design (DDD) in a way that fluently connects strategic patterns to fundamental tactical programming tools.
Book Review: Domain Driven Design
Domain Driven Design is an excellent book that draws on the experience of Eric Evans, a software architect with over two decades of experience building large scale systems.
Book Review: Permanent Record
Permanent Record: Edward Snowden spies on the spies The whistle-blower’s memoir is insightful, with a nice line in tech-inflected imagery.
Book Review: Traction
Traction will teach you the nineteen channels you can use to build a customer base, and how to pick the right ones for your business. It draws on inter-views with more than forty successful founders
Book Review: Head First Design Patterns
This book shows you the patterns that matter, when to use them and why, how to apply them to your own designs, and the object-oriented design principles on which they’re based. Join hundreds of thousands of developers who’ve improved their object-oriented design skills through Head First Design Patterns.
Book Review : Learning Dapr
authoritative guide to Dapr, the distributed application runtime that works with new and existing programming languages alike. Written by the model’s creators, this introduction shows you how Dapr not only unifies stateless, stateful, and actor programming models but also runs everywhere—in the cloud or on the edge.
Book Review: Building Event-Driven Microservices
Takes you through the process of building an event-driven microservice-powered organization. You’ll reconsider how data is produced, accessed, and propagated across your organization.
Book Review: Inspired
In INSPIRED, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides readers with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization, and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love
Book Review: The Democracy Project
After a number of perverse political events that 2021 has already offered and the at the time of writing we had barely taking 4 months in of the new year. I was reminded of this book by David Graeber, one of my favourite authors, also in my opinion one of the most under rated under appreciated political/academic and anthropological philosophers of our time.
Book Review : Building Microservices
Developing Micro-Services is all the rage now, and there is certainly a lot of hype around the key concept. Possibly many teams are engaged in the process of splitting their monolithic applications down and re-implementing them as Microservices. The trouble is there are so many conflicting idea, philosophies, ideologies and misunderstandings of what the hell Microservices even are!
Book Review: Product-Led Growth
Product-Led Growth is about helping your customers experience the ongoing value your product provides…and this book shows you how it’s done
Book Review: Mindf*ck
a must-read if you care about the power of disinformation campaigns and psychological warfare to disrupt western democracy in the era of Big Tech firms that know everything about us
Book Review: Debt – The First 5000 years
For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors—which lives on in full force to this day.
Book Review: Zero To One
Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.
Book Review : Remote – Office not required
The classic guide to working from home and why we should embrace a virtual office, from the bestselling authors of Rework
Book Review: The Pragmatic Programmer
examines what it means to be a modern programmer. Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse
Book Review: Bullshit Jobs – A theory
There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs.
Book Review: The Linux Programming Interface
the definitive guide to the Linux and UNIX programming interface—the interface employed by nearly every application that runs on a Linux or UNIX system.