Book Review: Unit Testing

2023/04/18Book ReviewSoftware EngineeringPracticesTesting

Unit testing is a book about testing that you should not skip, as it is an excellent source to improve your testing skills

Book Review: Effective Remote Work

2022/11/27Book ReviewSoftware EngineeringPracticesTeam OrganizationCareer

Effective remote work is a book about making remote work successful, both for employees and their company

Book Review: Site Reliability Workbook

2022/05/23Book ReviewDevOpsMonitoringAlertsOn-Call

Everybody's favorite saga about Site Reliability Engineering is back. This time it comes with plenty of actionable advice.

Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications

2022/03/07Book ReviewArchitectureDistributed Systems

If you want to dive into distributed systems, there's no better choice right now than Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Book Review: Staff Engineer

2021/11/16Book ReviewLeadershipTeam OrganizationArchitecture

Staff engineer is about understanding tech leadership in the context of BigTech companies

Book Review: Management 3.0

2021/05/09Book ReviewPracticesAgile

Management in the context of Agile. How does it even work? This book is about building high performing teams and leading them

Book Review: Accelerate

2021/03/07Book ReviewPracticesTeam OrganizationContinuous Delivery

Accelerate is the book you need to read if you want to understand why continuous delivery is a tool for companies to deliver better results

Book Review: Team topologies

2021/02/08Book ReviewPracticesTeam Organization

Team topologies is a book that proposes four ways of organizing teams that aim to empower them to build better software

Book Review: Prometheus up and running

2021/01/08Book ReviewMonitoringDevOpsPrometheus

Get started with Prometheus thanks to this book, which is both practical and comprehensive

Book Review: No rules rules, Netflix and the culture of reinvention

2020/12/13Book ReviewNetflix

A book about Netflix's culture is out. Talent density, candor, leading with context are some of the principles they follow

Book Review: Working effectively with legacy code

2020/11/12Book ReviewArchitecturePractices

Working effectively with legacy code is an excellent resource when dealing with hairy, messy pieces of legacy code that nobody wants to touch

Book Review: Never split the difference

2020/10/25Book ReviewNegotiation

Being properly prepared for a negotiation is a skill that is useful in many situations. Software development is about humans, after all

Book Review: The Rust programming language

2020/09/20Book ReviewRustSystems Programming

Rust is a trendy pick for a programming language these days. There is no better book to get started than this one

Book Review: The art of leadership

2020/08/28Book ReviewLeadershipRands

In his newest book, Rands talks about leadership using his experience in different management roles in Silicon Valley companies

Book Review: The software architect elevator

2020/07/26Book ReviewArchitectureDevOps

This book is an excellent source to be an effective architect bringing enterprises closer to be digitally native

Book Review: Kotlin in Action

2020/06/28Book ReviewKotlin

Kotlin in Action is an excellent resource to get started with Kotlin, a language that is quickly becoming an alternative to Java

Book Review: Securing DevOps

2020/05/26Book ReviewDevOpsSecurity

Securing DevOps offers plenty of actionable advice to make your setup, from CI to production, more secure

Book Review: Effective TypeScript

2020/04/25Book ReviewTypeScript

If there is one book to read about TypeScript, it's got to be Effective TypeScript