Library (25)

Books I've read - and what I actually think of them.

• Head First Design Patterns The Gang of Four, finally explained by people who wanted you to stay awake
• Head First C# The friendliest on-ramp to C# - and strictly an on-ramp, by design
• Micro Frontends in Action A practical guide to building scalable front-end applications with micro frontends
• Tidy First? The biggest cost of code is the cost of reading and understanding it, not the cost of writing it
• Continuous Delivery This Is the Way
• The Mythical Man-Month A classic book with teachings we keep ignoring
• Building Event-Driven Microservices Microservices are more than just synchronous calls
• Thinking in Systems Introduction to systems thinking
• Serverless Apps Introduction to Microsoft's Serverless Offering
• Nonviolent Communication Better way for communication?
• .NET Microservices Architecture for Containerized .NET Applications Yet another free e-book from Microsoft
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications One of my favourite computer science books
• The Lean Startup Also known as "The list of things I did wrong with my startups"
• Just Enough Software Architecture Practical book about Software Architecture
• The Pragmatic Programmer Developer's Journey to Mastery
• Modernize existing .NET applications with Azure cloud and Windows Containers Introduction to Docker and Azure
• The Checklist Manifesto Do we need an entire book for checklists?
• Dapr for .NET Developers Microsoft's Introduction to Dapr
• Learning Dapr A great introduction to Dapr!
• Monolith to Microservices The companion book for popular Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems book
• Enterprise Integration Patterns The classic book that defined modern system design and messaging
• Building Microservices A book that arguably started a "Microservices" movement in the industry
• Presentation Patterns Presentation skills for people who don't like presentations and love patterns
• Fundamentals of Software Architecture Great fundamentals book
• Blazor for ASP.NET Web Forms Developers Old dogs can learn new tricks