Review of Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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Every now and then, I have a library book fail to save my wallet – and this is one of those books! I initially checked it out of my local…
Book Reviews
Review of 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
This was a quick read and pointed out 22 key things that you can identify in most marketing strategies. Keep in mind that the book was written in the 90s…
Review of Art & Fear
I bought this book because of the story about the pottery class. My boss told me to “ship more pots”, and I get it! The entire book though gives a…
Review of The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace
Yet another assessment for businesses to use for understanding their employees / teammates / direct reports. It covers how the love languages can translate into languages of appreciation in the…
Review of Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
If you’re earlier in your career and wondering how to become an architect, this book has a lot of guidance on what skills are needed – and they aren’t all…
Review of Domain-Driven Design Distilled
If you haven’t read anything on DDD and don’t understand the pieces and parts, don’t read this first. This isn’t a good book for introducing the concepts – see Domain-Driven…
Review of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
This is one of those books that resonated with me right away in Chapter 1 and continued throughout the book. Understanding what is essential to you will help you embrace…
Review of Implementing Domain-Driven Design
After reading through this, my suspicions were confirmed. There are distractions in there that I’m not sure I understand what they add – Cowboy Logic. 🤷🏻♀️ I have to agree…
Review of The 2-Hour Workshop Blueprint
Leanne Hughes shares her SPARK framework for creating engaging, memorable workshops. As a seasoned speaker and trainer, my goal was to learn more about others’ tactics for engaging their audience…
Review of Monolith to Microservices
I picked this up after I had already been talking at conferences on this very topic of going from monolith towards microservices, with a modular monolith as a possibility. This…