Note: Below is a work in progress, I’ll update this sometime with links and thoughts

Reading now

  • Systems Performance - Brendan Gregg
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann

Books that have had an impact on me

Software Design and Ruby Programming

  • Refactoring - Martin Fowler
  • Refactoring Ruby Edition - Martin Fowler & Jay Fields
  • Object Oriented Design - Sandi Metz
  • Confident Ruby - Avdi Grimm (and Ruby Tapis videos)
  • A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout
  • Clean Code - Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)
  • Dave Thomas’s videos on describing the Ruby Object Model (I can’t find it but this may cover similar ground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2sgQ38UDVY)
  • Gary Bernhardt’s amazing screencasts and “Programmer’s Compendium”: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts

Testing

  • Test-Driven Development By Example - Kent Beck
  • Effective Unit Testing - Jay Fields
  • Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael Feathers

Patterns

  • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
  • Design Patterns
  • Head First Design Patterns

DevOps

  • The DevOps Handbook - Kim, Humble, Willis, Debois, Allspaw
  • Continous Delivery - Jez Humble & David Farley
  • Release It! - Michael Nygard

UX

  • All articles by Jacob Nielson and team: https://www.nngroup.com/
  • Show Me the Numbers - Stephen Few
  • Information Dashboard Design - Stephen Few
  • The Universal Principles of Design - Lidwell, Holden, Butler
  • The Universal Methods of Design - Hanington, Martin
  • About Face - The Essentials of Interaction Design - Alan Cooper
  • Designing Interfaces - Jenifer Tidwell

Joel Spolsky

Blogs