Recommended Reading

Every now and then, I get questions about books I recommend on topics. These are the books I can stand behind and recommend (until I find out that there’s a reason I shouldn’t).

Software Architecture

1. Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
2. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
3. Software Architecture Patterns
4. Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects
5. Strategic Monoliths and Microservices

Systems Thinking

1. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
2. Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity

Software Development

1. Head First Design Patterns
2. Inclusive Design Patterns – Coding Accessibility Into Web Design
3. The Pragmatic Programmer
4. Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects
5. Software Engineering at Google
6. Dependency Injection in .NET

Algorithms

1. Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers and Other Curious People

DevOps

1. Grokking Continuous Delivery
2. Accelerate
3. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Legacy Code

1. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
2. Working Effectively with Legacy Code
3. Beyond Legacy Code

Distributed Systems & Concurrency

1. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
2. Concurrency in C# Cookbook
3. Grokking Concurrency
4. Strategic Monoliths and Microservices

Leadership & Business

1. Leading from the Heart
2. Never Eat Alone

Domain-Driven Design

1. Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy
2. Domain Storytelling
3. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
4. Implementing Domain-Driven Design
5. Domain-Driven Design Distilled