Reading

What I’m Reading #

I have an insatiable appetite for learning. Here is what I am currently reading, recently finished, or thinking about. A mix of technical, leadership, faith, and whatever else catches my curiosity.

Currently Reading #

• Architecture for Flow - Susanne Kaiser (Addison-Wesley) - re-reading
• Building Micro-Frontends - Luca Mezzalira (O’Reilly) - re-reading to help a team
• Wiersbe Bible Commentary - Warren W. Wiersbe - doing a book study on 1 Thessalonians
• Canoeing the Mountains - Tod E. Bolsinger - reading with leadership group
• Docs for Developers - Bhatti, Corleissen, Lambourne, Nunez, Waterhouse (Apress)
• The Minimalist Entrepreneur - Sahil Lavingia - re-reading
• Storyworthy - Matthew Dicks - re-reading
• Together - Ben Mandrell - preparing for leading a small group
• Domain Storytelling - Hofer and Schwentner (Addison-Wesley)
• The Titus Ten - J. Josh Smith - doing a book study now

Recently Finished #

• Continuous Architecture in Practice - Eoin Woods, Murat Erder, Pierre Pureur (Addison-Wesley)
• Flow Architectures - James Urquhart (O’Reilly)
• Networking and Kubernetes - Strong and Lancey (O’Reilly)
• Learning Go - Jon Bodner (O’Reilly)
• Software Architecture: The Hard Parts - Ford, Richards, Sadalage, Dehghani (O’Reilly)
• Programming Rust (2nd Edition) - Blandy, Orendorff, Tindall (O’Reilly)
• Building Event-Driven Microservices - Adam Bellemare (O’Reilly)
• Learning Domain-Driven Design - Vlad Khononov (O’Reilly)
• Zero to Production in Rust - Luca Palmieri
• Fundamentals of Software Architecture - Richards and Ford (O’Reilly)
• Serverless Architectures on AWS - Sbarski and Cui (Manning)
• Deep Work - Cal Newport
• Open Circuits - Schlaepfer and Oskay
• The Software Engineer’s Guidebook - Gergely Orosz
• The Art of Electronics (3rd Edition) - Horowitz and Hill (Cambridge)
• The Staff Engineer’s Path - Tanya Reilly (O’Reilly)
• Understanding Software Dynamics - Richard Sites
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2 - Wright and Stevens
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann (O’Reilly)
• Spring in Action (5th Edition) - Craig Walls (Manning)
• Spring Microservices in Action - John Carnell (Manning)
• Start With Why - Simon Sinek
• Working Backwards - Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
• Machine Learning System Design Interview - Ali Aminian and Alex Xu
• 3:16 Bible Texts Illustrated - Donald Knuth
• Ideas That Created the Future - Harry R. Lewis (MIT Press)
• Team Topologies - Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
• Engineering Management for the Rest of Us - Sarah Drasner
• The First 90 Days - Michael D. Watkins
• Cloud Career Journeys - Prasad Rao and Ashish Prajapati
• The Value Flywheel Effect - David Anderson, Mark McCann, Michael O’Reilly
• System Design Interview - Alex Xu
• Principles of Web API Design - James Higginbotham (Addison-Wesley)

On the Shelf (up next) #

• Developer Relations - Lewko and Parton (Apress)
• Staff Engineer - Will Larsen
• The Software Architect Elevator - Gregor Hohpe (O’Reilly)
• Refactoring - Martin Fowler (Addison-Wesley)
• Rust in Action - Tim McNamara (Manning)
• Rust for Rustaceans - Jon Gjengset

Reference (thumb through as needed) #

• The Old Testament Handbook - Holman
• The New Testament Handbook - Holman
• BGP: From Theory to Practice - Luciani, Prado, Tofani
• An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata - Linz
• Handbook of Practical Logic and Automated Reasoning - Harrison (Cambridge)
• The Art of Computer Programming, Vol 4B - Donald Knuth
• Systems Performance (2nd Edition) - Brendan Gregg
• Specifying Systems - Leslie Lamport (Addison-Wesley)
• Crafting Interpreters - Robert Nystrom - partially read
• Spring Boot in Action - Craig Walls (Manning)
• Cracking the Coding Interview (6th Edition) - Gayle Laakmann McDowell
• Introduction to Algorithms (3rd Edition) - Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein (MIT Press)

Papers and Articles #

Nothing listed yet. Check back soon.

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