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Book recommendation: Release It! – Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software

In this book recommendation, I review the second edition of the book Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael Nygard, released in 2018. I also offer my 27 page summary of the book as free download. Introduction A common misconception is that the majority of the costs in a software-based project is allocated to … Read more

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Book recommendation: Designing Data-Intensive Applications

In this book recommendation, I review the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann, released in 2017. I also offer my 46 page summary of the book as free download. What are data-intensive applications? This book targets software engineers and architects interested in building distributed systems. In contrast to compute-intensive applications, where CPU cycles are the primary … Read more

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Book recommendation: Clean Code (Robert C. Martin)

In this book recommendation, I review the book Clean Code by Robert C. Martin, released in 2008. I offer my 13 page summary of the book as free download, and provide links to further reading material. Introduction to clean code In 2008, Robert C. Martin (a.k.a. “Uncle Bob”) released the book Clean code. It was … Read more