awesome-software-industry-books
github.com/talonx/awesome-software-industry-books ↗A list of good books for and involving software developers and the software industry, and not limited to programming.
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Autobiography/Biography/MemoirCareerCloud ComputingComputer NetworksComputing History and LoreEssaysFictionInterviews with ProgrammersManaging Software Developers and ProjectsOperating SystemsOperations/SRE/Platform EngineeringProgrammingSoftware Design and ArchitectureSoftware/Tech CompaniesSystem Administration
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Programming
Software Design and Architecture
- 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
- A Philosophy of Software Design
- Architecting for Scale
- Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Designing Distributed Systems: Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Services
Operations/SRE/Platform Engineering
Operating Systems
Computing History and Lore
- A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
- Dreaming in Code
- Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
- Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer
- Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Managing Software Developers and Projects
Software/Tech Companies
- Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry
- Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story
- Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
- Direct from Dell
- Facebook - The Inside Story
The Inside Story
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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