https://dev.ahill.net/tags/book-review/Recent content in Book-Review on Virtual AndyHugo -- 0.148.2enMon, 18 Aug 2025 07:30:00 +0000https://dev.ahill.net/2025/08/18/after-the-vibe-shift/Mon, 18 Aug 2025 07:30:00 +0000https://dev.ahill.net/2025/08/18/after-the-vibe-shift/My review of Software Engineering: After the Vibe Shift, a short book that is more about durable engineering judgment than vibe coding.https://dev.ahill.net/2023/12/15/book-review-tidy-first/Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:54:00 +0000https://virtualandy.wordpress.com/2023/12/15/book-review-tidy-first/My notes on Tidy First?, a small and practical book about making codebases easier to change one cleanup at a time.https://dev.ahill.net/2022/10/22/book-review-the-staff-engineers-path/Sat, 22 Oct 2022 18:47:22 +0000https://virtualandy.wordpress.com/?p=1634My review of The Staff Engineer’s Path and why it is useful for people trying to operate well in Staff+ roles.https://dev.ahill.net/2021/11/17/book-review-api-by-design/Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:00:00 +0000https://virtualandy.wordpress.com/?p=1581My review of API by Design, a useful REST API complexity book that left me wanting more concrete examples.https://dev.ahill.net/2021/11/10/book-review-accelerate-the-science-of-lean-software-and-devops-building-and-scaling-high-performing-technology-organizations/Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:00:00 +0000https://virtualandy.wordpress.com/?p=1575My review of Accelerate: useful research-backed vocabulary and confirmation, with more methodology detail than I wanted from the book.https://dev.ahill.net/2021/11/03/book-review-software-engineering-at-google-lessons-learned-from-programming-over-time/Wed, 03 Nov 2021 21:46:17 +0000https://virtualandy.wordpress.com/?p=1566My review of Software Engineering at Google: valuable engineering lessons, with the usual large-company navel gazing mixed in.https://dev.ahill.net/2018/08/21/book-review-designing-data-intensive-applications/Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:00:30 +0000https://virtualandy.wordpress.com/?p=1382My review of Designing Data-Intensive Applications as a practical survey of what changed, and what still matters, in data systems.https://dev.ahill.net/2016/05/31/book-review-mastering-ansible/Tue, 31 May 2016 16:00:53 +0000https://virtualandy.wordpress.com/?p=1254A review of Mastering Ansible, kicked off by a real debugging problem around variable precedence and Ansible behavior.https://dev.ahill.net/2014/04/03/required-reading-the-datacenter-as-a-computer/Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:28:21 +0000http://virtualandy.wordpress.com/?p=863Why The Datacenter as a Computer is still useful reading for understanding large-scale infrastructure design.