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Holiday Book Recommendations for Engineering Managers, Software Engineers and Product Managers

- Gergely Orosz tl;dr: 95 recommendations divided by genres such as engineering management, engineering leadership & org design, software engineering careers, leadership and business, and others. 

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Five Books that Changed My Career as a Software Engineer

- Juliano Lima tl;dr: Juliano discusses how each of the following five books helped him in his career: (1) The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development. (2) The Pragmatic Programmer. (3) Unwritten Laws of Engineering. (4) Remote: Office Not Required. (5) Explain the Cloud Like I’m 10.

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Move Fast - How Facebook Builds Software: My Book Review

- Gergely Orosz tl;dr: Gergely recommends this book to all engineering managers. It showcases what FB thought made a successful engineering culture and discusses the conflict between "move fast" web engineers and "we can't move fast" mobile engineers. 3 processes stand out as unique to this day - keeping engineers motivated, the FB bootcamp, and code winning arguments.

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Book Review: A Philosophy Of Software Design

tl;dr: Based on a recent discussion to stop recommending the book Clean Code, the author answers the question - what should we recommend instead? He considers A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout to be the answers and outlines why, in this post.

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My Staff Software Engineering Reading List

- Andrew Huth tl;dr: "While the books in this list have been useful for me as an engineering leader, anybody at any level can get a lot out of them."

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Recommended Engineering Management Books

- Caitie McCaffrey tl;dr: As Caitie stepped into a manager role for the first time, several friends, coaches, and mentors recommended some great books to help along the journey, listed here.

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20 Books That All Leaders Should Read In 2020

- Adam Grant tl;dr: "The major themes: problem-solving, relationships, rhythms of work and life, identity, and happiness."

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The OS Classics

- Werner Vogels tl;dr: Unix kernel design & networking related books, and a few others.

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The 25 Most Recommended Programming Books Of All-time

- Pierre de Wulf tl;dr: Pierre found the many programmer book recommendation lists online and compiled them into one to identify the common recommendations.

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Books I Enjoyed In 2019

- Edd Yerburgh tl;dr: The three books are Masters of Doom, On Writing Well & Ruby under a microscope

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