Book Review: Continuous Architecture in Practice
a comprehensive capture of Architectural concerns, Essential activities and practical case studies
Book Reviews
Book Review: Escaping the Build Trap
To stay competitive in today’s market, organisations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the “build trap,” cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer’s needs.
Book Review: Building Microservices 2nd Edition
The second edition is a complete rewrite of the previous edition. It is aimed at giving a broad overview of all aspects related to microservices.
Book Review: User Story Mapping
User story mapping is a valuable tool for software development, once you understand why and how to use it. This insightful book examines how this often misunderstood technique can help your team stay focused on users and their needs without getting lost in the enthusiasm for individual product features.
Book Review: Microservices Patterns
Microservice Patterns teaches enterprise developers and architects how to build applications with the microservice architecture. This book also teaches readers how to refactor a monolithic application to a microservice architecture.
Book Review: Software Architecture by Example
Design system solutions using modern architectural patterns and practices. This book discusses methods to keep a system responsive, even when it is being constantly updated, extending a system’s functionality without changing the core code, methods of maintaining data history, and designing a distributed transactional system.
Book Review: Software Architecture The Hard Parts
All software architecture decisions involve some sort of trade off. This books equips you with the means to make the best choices.
Book Review: Dependency Injection
presents core DI patterns in plain C#, so you’ll fully understand how DI works, covers integration with standard Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET MVC, and teaches you to use DI frameworks like Structure Map, Castle Windsor, and Unity.
Book Review: API Design Patterns
API Design Patterns lays out a set of design principles for building internal and public-facing APIs.
Book Review: Principles of Web API Design
does a great job addressing and providing the relevant information needed to deliver effective web API’s. Spoiler alert, that audience is not exclusively software developers. The information in this book will be of immense value to a number of roles in a project. Business Analyst, Product Owners, Project Managers, Quality Assurance etc.
Book Review: Calling Bullsh*t
Bullshit isn’t what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data.
Book Review: Life after the state
Thought-provoking and original, anyone concerned how big and bloated government has become must read this book. Dominic Frisby asks the kind of questions that those in Westminster need to start asking.
Product Review: Ledger nano X
Intuitive crypto wallet – perfect for beginners and veterans alike. Features a secure certified chip (CC EAL5+) designed to withstand sophisticated attacks, and to protect your valuable assets. Buy, sell, exchange and grow your crypto through our proprietary app: Ledger Live. All-in-one place.
Book Review: Bitcoin The future of money
Dominic Frisby tells the amazing story of Bitcoin. He provides a theory to solving the mystery surrounding the identity of Bitcoin’s secretive creator. He shows how Bitcoin is going to change the world. And, perhaps most of all, he does something nobody else has hitherto been able to do: he explains in layman’s language how the thing works.
Book Review: Daylight Robbery
Dominic Frisby traces the origins of taxation, from its roots in the ancient world, through to today. He explores the role of tax in the formation of our global religions, the part tax played in wars and revolutions throughout the ages, why, at one stage, we paid tax for daylight or for growing a beard. Ranging from the despotic to the absurd, the tax laws of the past reveal so much about how we got to where we are today and what we can do to build a system fit for the future.
Book Review: Game Theory
Every Very Short Introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how it has developed and influenced society.
Book Review: Bitcoin: Hard Money You Can’t F*ck With
Bitcoin is hard money you can’t f*ck with.No-one controls it. No governments, no companies, no central banks, no money printing. It’s a revolution as big as the internet
Book review: The Bitcoin Standard
This book is about monetary value and history of Bitcoin. The author is a professor of economics. The book mentions how the Blockchain technology works, but it is more detailed on the importance of Bitcoin in terms of economy and finance.
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 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.