Engineering Resources

A curated collection of books, blogs, and resources for software engineers.

Technical Software Development

• Code Complete by Steven McConnell
• The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Software Industry & Culture

• Peopleware by Demarco and Lister
• The Mythical Man Month
• Coders at Work by Peter Seibel
• Masters of Doom by David Kushner

Technology & Systems Thinking

• Code: Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
• The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• The Design of Everyday Things

Production & Business

• Lean Production: The Machine that Changed the World by James P Womack
• Micro-ISV by Bob Walsh

Technology History

• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
• The Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond

Blogs, Essays & Online Resources

• Joel Spolsky’s Blog
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S Raymond
• Choose Boring Technology
• Agile Manifesto
• Netflix Culture Deck
• Code Rush Documentary