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Refactoring to Patterns Summary
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Dependency Injection in .NET Summary
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4.42
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Kubernetes in Action Summary
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Functional JavaScript Summary
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4.07
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Resilient Management Summary
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by Lara Hogan 2019 105 pages
4.35
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REST API Design Rulebook Summary
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by Mark Masse 2011 161 pages
3.36
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Building Evolutionary Architectures Summary
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3.74
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JavaScript Summary
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by Douglas Crockford 2008 153 pages
4.23
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Strategize Summary
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Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age
by Roman Pichler 2016 172 pages
4.01
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Java Performance Summary
Java Performance
The Definitive Guide: Getting the Most Out of Your Code
by Scott Oaks 2014 423 pages
4.39
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Functional Programming in Java Summary
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by Venkat Subramaniam 2013 160 pages
4.16
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The Art of Project Management Summary
The Art of Project Management
by Scott Berkun 2005 448 pages
3.96
866 ratings
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Pro Git Summary
Pro Git
by Scott Chacon 2009 290 pages
4.18
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Debugging Summary
Debugging
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by David J. Agans 2002 192 pages
4.25
477 ratings
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Network Security Essentials Summary
Network Security Essentials
Applications and Standards
by William Stallings 1999 411 pages
3.73
200 ratings
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Agile Retrospectives Summary
Agile Retrospectives
Making Good Teams Great
by Esther Derby 2006 178 pages
3.94
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Debugging Teams Summary
Debugging Teams
Better Productivity through Collaboration
by Brian W. Fitzpatrick 2015 187 pages
4.09
765 ratings
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Beautiful Architecture Summary
Beautiful Architecture
Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design
by Diomidis Spinellis 2008 426 pages
3.41
171 ratings
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High Performance JavaScript Summary
High Performance JavaScript
Build Faster Web Application Interfaces
by Nicholas C. Zakas 2010 232 pages
4.11
596 ratings
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Agile Project Management with Kanban Summary
Agile Project Management with Kanban
by Eric Brechner 2015 160 pages
3.98
353 ratings
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Computer Systems Summary
Computer Systems
A Programmer's Perspective
by Randal E. Bryant 2002 978 pages
4.46
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Apprenticeship Patterns Summary
Apprenticeship Patterns
Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman
by Dave Hoover 2009 165 pages
4.11
951 ratings
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The Effective Engineer Summary
The Effective Engineer
How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
by Edmond Lau 2015 260 pages
4.25
1.7K ratings
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The Algorithm Design Manual Summary
The Algorithm Design Manual
by Steven S. Skiena 1997 486 pages
4.35
2.7K ratings
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Build a Large Language Model Summary
Build a Large Language Model
by Sebastian Raschka 2025 400 pages
4.65
136 ratings
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User Stories Applied Summary
User Stories Applied
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by Mike Cohn 2004 304 pages
3.89
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Ask Your Developer Summary
Ask Your Developer
How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century
by Jeff Lawson 2021 299 pages
4.22
1.3K ratings
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Object-Oriented Software Construction Summary
Object-Oriented Software Construction
by Bertrand Meyer 1988 1296 pages
4.04
270 ratings
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Agile Project Management with Scrum Summary
Agile Project Management with Scrum
by Ken Schwaber 2004 192 pages
3.71
1.5K ratings
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The Programmer's Brain Summary
The Programmer's Brain
by Felienne Hermans 2021 256 pages
3.86
391 ratings
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Software Architect’s Handbook Summary
Software Architect’s Handbook
Become a successful software architect by implementing effective architecture concepts
by Joseph Ingeno 2018 596 pages
4.10
59 ratings
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Introducing Microsoft Power BI Summary
Introducing Microsoft Power BI
by Alberto Ferrari 2016 306 pages
3.97
194 ratings
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Cloud Architecture Patterns Summary
Cloud Architecture Patterns
by Bill Wilder 2012 178 pages
3.59
236 ratings
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High Performance Web Sites Summary
High Performance Web Sites
by Steve Souders 2007 168 pages
4.15
688 ratings
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Software Architecture Patterns Summary
Software Architecture Patterns
by Mark Richards 2015 47 pages
3.64
485 ratings
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Web Scalability for Startup Engineers Summary
Web Scalability for Startup Engineers
by Artur Ejsmont 2015 416 pages
4.51
327 ratings
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Usability Engineering Summary
Usability Engineering
by Jakob Nielsen 1993 384 pages
3.97
278 ratings
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Lean Inception Summary
Lean Inception
How to Align People and Build the Right Product
by Paulo Caroli 2018 187 pages
4.07
425 ratings
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The Art of Unit Testing Summary
The Art of Unit Testing
With Examples in .NET
by Roy Osherove 2009 296 pages
4.09
1.4K ratings
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Writing Secure Code Summary
Writing Secure Code
by Michael Howard 2001 768 pages
4.01
373 ratings
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Agile Product Management with Scrum Summary
Agile Product Management with Scrum
Creating Products That Customers Love
by Roman Pichler 2008 160 pages
3.84
1.6K ratings
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Docker Summary
Docker
Up & Running: Shipping Reliable Containers in Production
by Karl Matthias 2015 232 pages
3.77
458 ratings
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Programming Javascript Applications Summary
Programming Javascript Applications
Robust Web Architecture With Node, Html5, and Modern Js Libraries
by Eric Elliott 2012 300 pages
3.61
158 ratings
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Programming Elixir Summary
Programming Elixir
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by Dave Thomas 2013 287 pages
4.28
734 ratings
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Cracking the PM Career Summary
Cracking the PM Career
The Skills, Frameworks, and Practices to Become a Great Product Manager
by Jackie Bavaro 2021 551 pages
4.37
227 ratings
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More Joel on Software Summary
More Joel on Software
Further Thoughts on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and ... or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity
by Joel Spolsky 2008 320 pages
4.05
546 ratings
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Writing High-Performance .NET Code Summary
Writing High-Performance .NET Code
by Ben Watson 2014 280 pages
4.31
290 ratings
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Hypermedia Systems Summary
Hypermedia Systems
by Carson Gross 2023 548 pages
4.41
194 ratings
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Domain-Driven Design Quickly Summary
Domain-Driven Design Quickly
by Floyd Marinescu 2006 104 pages
3.59
564 ratings
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Designing Distributed Systems Summary
Designing Distributed Systems
Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Services
by Brendan Burns 2018 149 pages
3.59
646 ratings
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