Favorite Software Engineering Resources

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Books

• Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
• A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition by John Ousterhout
• The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey To Mastery (20th Anniversary Edition) by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
• The Legacy Code Programmer's Toolbox by Jonathan Boccara
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
• Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) by Steve Krug
• Build APIs You Won't Hate: Everyone and their dog wants an API, so you should probably learn how to build them
• Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
• Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design by Robert C. Martin
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code 2nd Edition by Martin Fowler
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2nd Edition by Kent Beck
• Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck
• Essential Test-Driven Development by Robert C. Myers
• Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Freeman Steve, Pryce Nat
• Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Tests
• Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk
• Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
• Continuous Delivery Pipelines: How To Build Better Software Faster by Dave Farley
• Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
• Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects
• Design and Build Great Web APIs: Robust, Reliable, and Resilient
• Building Microservices 2nd Edition by Sam Newman
• Help Your Boss Help You by Ken Kousen
• Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
• Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

Programming Best Practices

• A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google
• Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming
• The Principles of Good Programming
• AHA Programming
• The Pragmatic Programmer Quick Reference Guide
• Twelve Principles of Agile Software
• The Rules of Extreme Programming
• Seven ineffective coding habits of many programmers | Kevlin Henney (YouTube link)
• Comment Only What the Code Cannot Say by Kevlin Henney
• Exceptional Naming by Kevlin Henney
• YOW! 2013 Kevlin Henney - The SOLID Design Principles Deconstructed
• Worse Is Better, for Better or for Worse • Kevlin Henney • GOTO 2013
• Naming cheatsheet
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
• Programming Principles - Java Design Paterns
• Readable Code by Gergely Orosz
• Structure and Interpretation of Test Cases - Kevlin Henney
• APIs You Won't Hate

Podcasts & YouTube Channels

• Continuous Delivery by Dave Farley YouTube channel
• Mob Mentality Show
• Changelog
• Software Engineering Daily

Articles and Guides

Career / Productivity

• The Product-Minded Software Engineer
• How to communicate effectively as a developer
• What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead
• Always be quitting
• What accomplishments sound like on software engineering resumes
• My thoughts about the Principal role
• Staff Archetypes
• Samman Technical Coaching
• The Senior Developer Roadmap, α version
• know how your org works (or how to become a more effective engineer)
• Managing people
• Samman Technical Coaching
• Design thinking, explained

JavaScript / TypeScript

• State of JavaScript
• The Complete ECMAScript 2015-2019 Guide by Flavio Copes
• The ES6 Guide by Flavio Copes
• The Modern JavaScript Tutorial
• Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide()
• Essential JavaScript Links
• TypeScript Deep Dive
• Jake Archibald: In The Loop - JSConf.Asia
• Transitioning to modern JavaScript by Houssein Djirdeh, Jason Miller | Google Chrome Developers YouTube Channel

Software Architecture / Design Patterns / System Design

• System Design by roadmap.sh
• Patterns in Practice - Cohesion And Coupling
• Design Patterns for Humans!
• Software Architecture for Developers
• Five things every developer should know about software architecture Series' Articles by Simon Brown
• Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated | blog.pragmaticengineer.com (Hacker News discussion thread)
• Event Modeling
• Cohesion | Glenn Vanderburg
• The Architect’s Path (Part 1 - Model) by Gregor Hohpe
• The Architect’s Path (Part 2 - Bookshelf) by Gregor Hohpe
• Software Architecture: The Most Important Architectural Patterns You Need to Know
• Modern-Day Architecture Design Patterns for Software Professionals
• Patterns of Distributed Systems by Unmesh Joshi
• Patterns of Legacy Displacement - Effective modernization of legacy software systems
• Layers, hexagons, features and components
• Domain-Driven Hexagon
• The Grand Unified Theory of Software Architecture
• Patterns of Distributed Systems by Unmesh Joshi | martinfowler.com
• Micro Frontends by Cam Jackson | martinfowler.com
• The Twelver-Factor App
• What Is This Cloud Native Thing Anyway? by Sam Newman
• Cloud Design Patterns - Azure Architecture
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation - Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
• Principles for Microservice Design: Think IDEALS, Rather than SOLID
• Principles Of Microservices - Sam Newman
• Disasters I've seen in a microservices world
• The Reactive Manifesto

Software Testing Practices

• GivenWhenThen by Martin Fowler
• Gherkin Reference
• BDD Primer
• Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration. by Kent C. Dodds
• On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing by Martin Fowler
• Unit Testing is Overrated
• TDD Anti-Patterns by James Carr
• Building a Quality Strategy and Executing on it
• The Practical Test Pyramid by Ham Vocke | martinfowler.com
• Programming with GUTs by Kevlin Henney
  • Software testing is an activity, not a phase or a department by Kevlin Henney
• Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt
• Boundary Value Analysis and Equivalence Partitioning Testing
• Structured JUnit 5 testing
• Structure and Interpretation of Test Cases - Kevlin Henney
• DO's and DON'Ts when writing tests by Rachel M. Carmena
• TDD Heuristics: Given-When-Then or Arrange-Act-Assert
• How to Spread Technical Practices Like TDD in an Organization

Software Testing Tools

• Karate Test Automation
• Testcontainers
• GreenMail
• JUnit 5
• AssertJ
• Mockito
• HoverFly
• Arquillian
• Pact
• QMetry

Coding Kata | Ensemble Working | Mob Programming

• Cyber Dojo
• Gilded Rose Refactoring Kata
• Samman Technical Coaching and Ensemble Working
• Ensemble 101
• Emily Bache YouTube Channel
• Mob Programming – A Whole Team Approach by Woody Zuill
• Mob programming | Collaborative coding as a remote team
• Two Rules for Mobbing Success
• Mob and Ensemble Programming by David Whitlock

O'Reilly Learning Playlist

APIs: First Steps

https://learning.oreilly.com/playlists/1ea7c616-d609-4c05-963b-d7c35d0ad8bf

• Continuous API Management https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/continuous-api-management/9781492043546/
• Enterprise API Management https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/enterprise-api-management/9781787284432/
• The Design of Web APIs https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/the-design-of/9781617295102/

Architecture

https://learning.oreilly.com/playlists/2281265f-093e-4bea-acfe-b7a0c08a086e

• Domain-Driven Design Distilled https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/domain-driven-design-distilled/9780134593449/
• Clean Architecture: A Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9780134494272/
• Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/0321125215/
• Bootstrapping Microservices with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617297212/OEBPS/Text/title.xhtml
• Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications, 2nd Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492046820/
• Stream Processing with Apache Flink https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781491974285/
• Flow Architectures https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492075882/
• Designing Reactive Systems https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492049142/
• Implementing Domain-Driven Design https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9780133039900/
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/0321127420/
• Micro Frontends in Action https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617296871/
• Cloud Native Patterns https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617294297/
• Microservices Patterns https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617294549/
• Reactive Microservices Architecture https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781491975664/

Coding Practices

https://learning.oreilly.com/playlists/8d13a02f-a3d1-427f-84f9-2ef154a02712

• Algorithms, Fourth Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9780132762564/
• Learning Path: Clean Coder https://learning.oreilly.com/learning-paths/learning-path-clean/8204091500000000001/
• Learning Go https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492077206/
• Code Complete, Second Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/0735619670/
• Clean Agile: Back to Basics https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9780135782002/
• Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9780321336385/
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9780136083238/
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/0131177052/
• The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9780135956977/
• 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781491952689/
• Java By Comparison https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781680505887/
• Effective Java https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9780134686097/
• Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/0321293533/
• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Second Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/0321278658/
• Test Driven Development: By Example https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/0321146530/
• The Art of Unit Testing, 2nd Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617290893/
• Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java 8 with JUnit https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781680500769/
• Object-Oriented Design Heuristics https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/object-oriented-design-heuristics/020163385X/
• The Agile Samurai https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781680500066/
• The Cucumber Book, 2nd Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781680502497/
• JUnit in Action, Third Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617297045/
• The Well-Grounded Java Developer https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617290060/
• Learning Path: Clean Coder https://learning.oreilly.com/learning-paths/learning-path-clean/8204091500000000001/
• Head First Design Patterns, 2nd Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492077992/
• Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617296277/

DevOps

https://learning.oreilly.com/playlists/db053eaa-63e8-4c27-b202-f4f8b7f0253c

• Observability Engineering https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492076438/
• The Phoenix Project https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781457191350/
• Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9780321670250/
• DevOps for the Modern Enterprise https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781457191442/
• The DevOps Handbook https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781457191381/
• The Unicorn Project https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781098124175/
• Learning Path: Creating Docker Images and Dockerfiles https://learning.oreilly.com/learning-paths/learning-path-creating/9781098115180/
• Effective DevOps https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781491926291/

Domain-Driven Design

https://learning.oreilly.com/playlists/b77a9746-2f1a-461e-b29c-cef6c37080ef

• Domain Modeling Made Functional https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781680505481/
• What Is Domain-Driven Design? https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492057802/
• Implementing Domain-Driven Design https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9780133039900/
• Domain-Driven Design Distilled https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9780134434964/
• Domain-Driven Design Distilled https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/domain-driven-design-distilled/9780134593449/

Elixir

• Elixir in Action, Second Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617295027/
• Learn Functional Programming with Elixir https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781680505757/
• Designing Elixir Systems With OTP https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781680507362/
• Programming Phoenix 1.4 https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781680507324/
• Phoenix in Action https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617295041/
• Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781680505924/
• Programming Ecto https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781680506921/

Getting Started with DevSecOps

https://learning.oreilly.com/playlists/9b34a346-fdf9-417d-b18e-316cf15db160

• Learning DevSecOps https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781098106935/
• Container Security https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/container-security/9781492056690/
• Securing DevOps https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617294136/
• Hands-On Security in DevOps https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/hands-on-security-in/9781788995504/
• DevOpsSec https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781491971413/
• Kubernetes Security https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492039075/
• Security Chaos Engineering https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492080350/
• Agile Application Security https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781491938836/
• Infrastructure as Code, 2nd Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/infrastructure-as-code/9781098114664/
• Chapter 8. Core Practice: Continuously Test and Deliver https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/infrastructure-as-code/9781098114664/ch08.html
• Serverless Security: Understand, Assess, and Implement Secure and Reliable Applications in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/serverless-security-understand/9781484261002/
• 9. Authentication and Authorization https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/serverless-security-understand/9781484261002/html/486121_1_En_9_Chapter.xhtml

Infrastructure and Ops Superstream: CI/CD

https://learning.oreilly.com/playlists/948c50ad-5b60-4b70-bcc8-7c6b18bbd734

• Building Microservices Chapter 6. Workflow https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/building-microservices-2nd/9781492034018/ch06.html#idm46057022694856
• Continuous Delivery in Java https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/continuous-delivery-in/9781491986011/
• The new SDLC: CI/CD in the age of machine learning - Diego Oppenheimer (Algorithmia) https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/oreilly-strata-data/9781492050681/9781492050681-video327518/
• CI/CD takes a village: Deliver more, faster, with InnerSource - Harikrishnan N (Capital One) https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/oscon-2019/9781492050643/9781492050643-video325909/
• Chapter 5. Vulnerability Management https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/practical-cloud-security/9781492037507/ch05.html
• Securing DevOps https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/securing-devops/9781617294136/c01.xhtml
• CI/CD in a cloud native world https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/ci-cd-in-a/0636920335597/
• Applied Continuous Delivery https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/applied-continuous-delivery/9780134857053/
• Consider Culture When Implementing Agile Practices https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/consider-culture-when/53863MIT60251/
• 4. In-Platform CI/CD https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/advanced-platform-development/9781484256114/html/483120_1_En_4_Chapter.xhtml
• Understanding Architectural Continuous Delivery https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/software-architecture-fundamentals/9781491998991/9781491998991-video317012/
• Chapter 8. Core Practice: Continuously Test and Deliver https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/infrastructure-as-code/9781098114664/ch08.html

Kubernetes

https://learning.oreilly.com/playlists/ddf51c3a-9b53-48cb-b31a-5b4fb6232ae7

• Getting Started with Kubernetes LiveLessons, 2nd Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/getting-started-with/9780136787709/
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/certified-kubernetes-application/9780136677628/
• Kubernetes Best Practices https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492056461/
• Programming Kubernetes https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492047094/
• Hands-on Kubernetes https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/hands-on-kubernetes/9780136702887/
• Bootstrapping Microservices with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617297212/OEBPS/Text/title.xhtml
• Learning Path: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Prep Course https://learning.oreilly.com/learning-paths/learning-path-certified/9781492061021/
• Kubernetes Patterns https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492050278/
• Kubernetes: Up and Running, 2nd Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492046523/
• Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492040750/

Kotlin

https://learning.oreilly.com/playlists/ca9b3c45-f1eb-487d-9d11-8707c730c057

• Head First Kotlin https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-kotlin/9781491996683/
• Programming Kotlin https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781680507287/
• Java to Kotlin https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492082262/
• Kotlin in Action https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617293290/
• Kotlin Cookbook https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492046660/
• The Joy of Kotlin https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617295362/
• Learn Kotlin for Android Development: The Next Generation Language for Modern Android Apps Programming https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/learn-kotlin-for/9781484244678/

Java

• Java Concurrency in Practice https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/0321349601/
• Java Performance, 2nd Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492056102/
• Modern Java in Action https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617293566/
• Java in a Nutshell, 7th Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/java-in-a/9781492037248/
• Effective Java https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/effective-java/9780134686097/
• Java By Comparison https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781680505887/
• Modern Java Recipes https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781491973165/
• Java Cookbook, 4th Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492072577/
• Learning Java, 5th Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492056263/
• Optimizing Java https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492039259/
• Vert.x in Action https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781617295621/
• Reactive Programming with RxJava https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781491931646/
• Learning Path: Getting Started with Reactive Programming—Asynchronous Java, Promises, Actors, and Reactive Streams https://learning.oreilly.com/learning-paths/learning-path-getting/9781492028611/
• Scala Cookbook, 2nd Edition https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781492051534/
• Applied Akka Patterns https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781491934876/

Security

• Agile Application Security https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781491938836/
• The Tangled Web https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781593273880/

SRE Essentials

https://learning.oreilly.com/playlists/7b526ba0-0ba2-4d89-baac-25e9f3877d7f

Software Architecture Superstream: Fundamentals

https://learning.oreilly.com/playlists/a3755b7a-f891-45d3-b596-3f9e26ffcfd9