Software Engineering Reading List

A curated collection of books and resources for software engineers, architects, and tech leaders.

• Pro .NET Benchmarking — The Art of Performance Measurement
  by Andrey Akinshin
• The Phoenix Project
  by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford
• Fundamentals of Software Architecture — 2nd Edition
  by Mark Richards and Neal Ford
• Engineering Leadership — The Hard Parts
  by Juan Pablo Buriticá and James Turnbull
• Why Programs Fail — 2nd Edition
  by Andreas Zeller
• Fundamentals of Data Engineering
  by Joe Reis and Matt Housley
• Building Event-Driven Microservices
  by Adam Bellemare
• The Pragmatic Programmer — your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
  by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
• Systems Performance — Enterprise and the Cloud
  by Brendan Gregg
• Designing Distributed Systems — 2nd Edition
  by Brendan Burns
• Building Micro-Frontends
  by Luca Mezzalira
• Chaos Engineering
  by Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones
• System Design on AWS
  by Jayanth Kumar and Mandeep Singh
• Microservices Patterns
  by Chris Richardson
• Monolith to Microservices
  by Sam Newman
• Web Application Security — 2nd Edition
  by Andrew Hoffman
• Logging in Action
  by Phil Wilkins
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
  by Michael Feathers
• The Staff Engineer's Path
  by Tanya Reilly
• Mastering API Architecture
  by James Gough, Daniel Bryant and Matthew Auburn
• Fundamentals of Software Architecture
  by Mark Richards and Neal Ford
• The Object-Oriented Thought Process — 5th Edition
  by Matt Weisfeld
• Modern Software Engineering — Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
  by David Farley
• Head First Software Architecture
  by Raju Gandhi, Mark Richards and Neal Ford
• Building Microservices — 2nd Edition
  by Sam Newman
• Software Architecture — The Hard Parts
  by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage and Zhamak Dehghani
• Clean Architecture — A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design
  by Robert C. Martin
• Tidy First?
  by Kent Beck
• Refactoring — Improving the Design of Existing Code
  by Martin Fowler
• Software Engineering at Google
  by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck and Hyrum Wright
• Database Internals
  by Alex Petrov
• Domain-Driven Design — Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
  by Eric Evans