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[Tech Books: Recommended Reading]

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Tech Books - Recommended Reading.md

Algorithms

• Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide

Best Practices

• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
• The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

Client-Side

• CSS: The Definitive Guide
• Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
• Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers
• High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
• Mobile First
• Responsible Responsive Design
• Responsive Web Design

Clojure

• Clojure for the Brave and True
• Quick Clojure
• The Joy of Clojure

Communication

• Radical Candor: care personally and challenge directly
• Nonviolent Communication
• Authentic Communication

Concurrency

• Programming Concurrency on the JVM: Mastering Synchronization, STM, and Actors
• Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel

Culture

• Conscious Business: How to build value through values
• Powerful: building a culture of freedom and responsibility

Functional Programming

• Functional Programming Patterns in Scala and Clojure
• Functional Programming in Scala

Go

• The Go Programming Language

JavaScript

• Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
• High Performance JavaScript (Build Faster Web Application Interfaces)
• JavaScript: The Good Parts
• Test Driven JavaScript Development

Management

• The Manager’s Path
• Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

Patterns

• Mastering Regular Expressions

PHP

• Practical Design Patterns in PHP

Python

• Effective Python

Ruby

• Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional
• Design Patterns in Ruby
• Metaprogramming Ruby
• Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
• Refactoring: Ruby Edition
• Sinatra - Up and Running

Rust

• Programming Rust

Shell

• Classic Shell Scripting

System Design, Networking and Security

• Amazon Web Services in Action
• Building Microservices
• Bulletproof SSL and TLS
• High Performance Browser Networking
• The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Volume 2: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems

Testing

• Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests

Tools

• Pro Vim
• Vagrant: Up and Running
• Version Control with Git: Powerful tools and techniques for collaborative software development