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
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.
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!
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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
Why I read this book? I have been initially introduced the David Graebers work, after reading Bullshit Jobs: A theory a book which I found… Read More »Book Review: Debt – The First 5000 years
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.
The classic guide to working from home and why we should embrace a virtual office, from the bestselling authors of Rework
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
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.
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.
Ten practical Essays from industry experts giving specific techniques for effective peer code review.
If you’re into collecting classic books across multiple genres, then this would have to be the book you collect to put in your Software Development… Read More »Book Review : Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
A very informative and useful book I recommend all software developers should read, particularly those who wish to pursuit freelance software development
Review of the Completely revised and updated, this best-selling introduction to programming in JavaScript focuses on writing real applications.
I have published a few book reviews now and apparently some people really enjoy reading them while finding them useful too. I have been fortunate… Read More »Book Review : Soft Skills
The Lean Startup method, is designed to teach you how to drive a startup, So instead of drawing up complex plans based on assumptions and guesses, entrepreneurs are encouraged to employ the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop.
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team A leadership fable Patrick Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even… Read More »Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Java by Comparison leads you step by step to new insights on good coding practice. Instructive examples compare the do’s and dont’s and make it easy for beginners to get the key points.