Maruf's Software Engineering Reading List

Leadership

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
• Amazon Leadership Principles
• Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
• Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams
• Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
• Leadership Is an Art
• Stories of reaching to Staff Sofware Engineer
• Trillion Dollar Coach
• Decisive Moments for Engineering Leaders
• High Growth Engineering
• The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded
• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
• Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
• How Google Works
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Software Architecture

• Is Design Dead?
• Architecture is dependency management
• Micro Service Architecture
• Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
• HTTP API Design Guide
• The Twelve-Factor App
• AWS TIPS I WISH I'D KNOWN BEFORE I STARTED
• Software Design Patterns Index
• The key to synchronizing clocks over networks is taming delay variability

Distributed Systems

• Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store
• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
• Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System
• Programming Models for Distributed Computing
• CMU: Distributed Systems
• The C10K problem
• Files are hard
• Introduction to Distributed System Design
• The Fallacies of Distributed Computing Reborn: The Cloud Era
• Distributed Systems and the End of the API
• 10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read At Least Twice
• Locality-aware request distribution in cluster-based network servers
• Consistent Hashing and Random Trees: Distributed Caching Protocols for Relieving Hot Spots on the World Wide Web

Scalability

• Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
• There is No Now
• SWIM Protocol explained
• If You Have Too Much Data, then "Good Enough" Is Good Enough
• Fighting Fire With Fire: Using Randomized Gossip To Combat Stochastic Scalability Limits
• On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services
• Harvest, Yield, and Scalable Tolerant Systems
• Scaling Memcache at Facebook
• Lessons from Giant-Scale Services
• How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Using A Lot Of Disk Space To Scale
• Six things I wish we had known about scaling
• 7 Stages of Scaling Web Applications

Software Testing

• What Is Software Testing? And Why Is It So Hard?
• Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Tests
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven Approach
• Don't Make Me Think
• Testers Rage
• Test automation and software craftsmanship
• Testing vs Quality Management – Quality Management
• Good and Bad Technical Debt (and how TDD helps)
• Code Smell
• The many reasons your deployment is racy
• On Unit Testing
• LOAD TESTING: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
• TDD is dead. Long live testing

Monorepo

• Advantages of monorepos
• Advantages and Disadvantages of a Monolithic Repository
• Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
• Why you should use a single repository for all your company’s projects

Ethics

• MIT: Ethical and Social Aspects of Computing
• The ethics of algorithms: Mapping the debate
• Counting the Countless
• Algorithmic realism: expanding the boundaries of algorithmic thought
• Why AI Is Still Waiting For Its Ethics Transplant
• Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex
• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/business/against-hustle-culture-rise-and-grind-tgim.html
• Psychometric Profiling: Persuasion by Personality in Elections
• Technology and The Worker
• On Design Thinking

Miscellaneous

• The Friendship That Made Google Huge
• The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
• Being a Noob
• How To Think For Yourself
• Attention Is All You Need
• Distance matters