Browsing tag: book-review

My review of Software Engineering: After the Vibe Shift, a short book that is more about durable engineering judgment than vibe coding.

My notes on Tidy First?, a small and practical book about making codebases easier to change one cleanup at a time.

My review of The Staff Engineer’s Path and why it is useful for people trying to operate well in Staff+ roles.

My review of API by Design, a useful REST API complexity book that left me wanting more concrete examples.

My review of Accelerate: useful research-backed vocabulary and confirmation, with more methodology detail than I wanted from the book.

My review of Software Engineering at Google: valuable engineering lessons, with the usual large-company navel gazing mixed in.

My review of Designing Data-Intensive Applications as a practical survey of what changed, and what still matters, in data systems.

A review of Mastering Ansible, kicked off by a real debugging problem around variable precedence and Ansible behavior.

Why The Datacenter as a Computer is still useful reading for understanding large-scale infrastructure design.