Reading List

Software Development resources that I recommend reading. These helped me to grow as a developer and I share them with those I mentor.

For resources on the Software Development process see Reading List: Process

For resources on Leadership, Personal Development, and Business see Reading List: Leadership

Books #

• Microservices Patterns
• Release It!
• REST in Practice
• Secure by Design
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Blog Posts #

• Awesome Falsehood: A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in
• Cargo Cult Software Engineering
• The Fallacy Of ReUse
• Microservices: a definition of this new architectural termBuilt around business capabilities and independently deployable
• On Being A Senior Engineer
• Programmer Competency Matrix
• Testing Strategies in a Microservice Architecture
• Understanding write-through, write-around and write-back caching (with Python)
• Principles
  • Principle of least astonishment
  • do what I mean (DWIM)
• Java
  • Field Dependency Injection Considered Harmful
  • Lombok: A Love/Hate Relationship

Design #

• Think you understand the Single Responsibility Principle?
• Cursor Pagination
  • Previous Page Token for Cursor Pagination
  • Why You Shouldn’t Use OFFSET and LIMIT For Your Pagination
• Why you should follow the robustness principle in your APIs
• Best practices for REST API design
• Design a DDD-oriented microservice

Code Review #

• How to Write a Git Commit Message
• How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You

Videos #

• The Art of Speaking: Scott Hanselman
• Monolith Decomposition Patterns
• Core Design Principles for Software Developers
• OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
• The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture
• Introduction to NoSQL – Martin Fowler
• Workflows of Refactoring