Reading List

Books

Development

• The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business
• Microservices Patterns
• Release It!
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Personal Development

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
• Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
• Starting Strength
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Leadership

• Boundaries
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
• EntreLeadership
• Getting to Yes
• Good to Great
• How to Win Friends & Influence People
• Integrity
• Radical Candor
• Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
• Who Moved My Cheese

Blog Posts

• Design a DDD-oriented microservice
• FrequencyReducesDifficulty

Java

• Field Dependency Injection Considered Harmful
• Lombok: A Love/Hate Relationship

Conference Talks

See Also

• first-year reading list for software engineers
• recommended reading for software engineers, their managers, and others working to produce software