Reading List

Recent

Below are some of the books I’m currently reading or have read in the recent past.

Recommended

This is a list of my all-time favourite software books. I consider these books classics and I periodically return to them as references.

Effective Java 2nd Edition

This is the definitive book on java best practices. A must read for Java programmers.

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Code should be readable and comprehensible. Strive to leave code better than you found it. A must read.

Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software

The definitive book on fault tolerance in the real world. A must read.

Java Application Architecture: Modularity Patterns with Examples Using OSGi

This book really opened my eyes to thinking about architecture at the middle – the component/module level, where proper design is so critical to managing complexity in large codebases, and which is so often over-looked.

Java Concurrency In Practice

An excellent treatment of concurrency in Java. A must read for anyone writing concurrent code on the JVM.

JavaScript: The Good Parts

I consider this the definitive book on JavaScript. A must read.

Making Sense of Stream Processing: The Philosophy Behind Apache Kafka and Scalable Stream Data Platforms

Distributed data pipeline architectures. A must read.

Introduction to Functional Programming

A classic introduction to functional programming in the ML-style.