Books

My book recommendations, 3 stars and up. The books are sorted first by rating (highest to lowest) and then alphabetically within each rating.

Computer Science

• ★★★★★ Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• ★★★★★ Distributed Systems for Practitioners
• ★★★★★ Inside the Machine
• ★★★★★ Observability Engineering
• ★★★★★ The Rust Programming Language
• ★★★★★ The Site Reliability Workbook
• ★★★★★ Ultimate Go Notebook
• ★★★★★ Understanding Distributed Systems
• ★★★★★ Write Great Code
• ★★★★★ Writing for Developers: Blogs that get read
• ★★★★☆ Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures
• ★★★★☆ Database Internals
• ★★★★☆ Clean Code
• ★★★★☆ How Linux Works
• ★★★★☆ Implementing Service Level Objectives
• ★★★★☆ Kubernetes Patterns
• ★★★★☆ Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
• ★★★★☆ Practical Vim
• ★★★★☆ Software Engineering at Google
• ★★★★☆ System Design Interview
• ★★★★☆ Systems Performance
• ★★★★☆ The Kubernetes Book
• ★★★★☆ Tidy First?
• ★★★☆☆ AWS Cookbook
• ★★★☆☆ Chaos Engineering
• ★★★☆☆ What Every Web Developer Should Know About HTTP

Personal Development

• ★★★★★ Fearless Speaking
• ★★★★★ How to Win Friends & Influence People
• ★★★★☆ Atomic Habits
• ★★★★☆ How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
• ★★★★☆ Lateral Thinking
• ★★★★☆ Limitless Mind
• ★★★★☆ Show Your Work!
• ★★★★☆ The Art and Business of Online Writing
• ★★★★☆ The Business of Belonging
• ★★★★☆ The Millionaire Fastlane
• ★★★☆☆ Fear
• ★★★☆☆ TED Talks
• ★★★☆☆ The Story Advantage
• ★★★☆☆ Zen

Science

• ★★★★★ We Have No Idea
• ★★★★★ Why We Sleep
• ★★★★☆ Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe
• ★★★★☆ How To
• ★★★★☆ The Universe in Your Hand
• ★★★☆☆ What If?