Book: Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Thinking in Systems: A Primer is a book by Donella Meadows. It is an introduction to the concepts and principles of systems thinking.
Book: Serverless Apps: Architecture, patterns, and Azure Implementation
Serverless Apps: Architecture, patterns, and Azure Implementation is a short (55 pages) free ebook. Like the other books in the Microsoft series (.NET Microservices Architecture for Containerized .NET Applications, Modernize existing .NET applications with Azure cloud and Windows Containers, Dapr for .NET Developers, Blazor for ASP.NET Web Forms Developers), the book is easy to read and fun.
Finding the Perfect Date: Exploring DateTime Formats for Developers
As developers, it's easy to think that working with dates and times is strictly a computer science problem. Even if it sometimes looks like someone is playing a cruel joke on programmers, historically making sense of time was a challenging task, much more than trying to parse some weird local datetime format. Tom Scott has a great video about problems with Timezones: