Reading

Books shaping how I think this year. The list is deliberately short — reading deep matters more than reading wide.

Reading now

  • The Software Architect Elevator — Gregor Hohpe

    Why the best architects move between the C-suite penthouse and the code basement.

  • Working in Public — Nadia Eghbal

    Re-read. Maintaining an open-source framework is not what it looked like.

Finished this year

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann

    The closest thing to a canonical book on distributed systems.

  • Domain-Driven Design — Eric Evans

    Re-read the Blue Book. Still correct where it matters.

  • The Pragmatic Programmer (20th Anniversary) — Hunt & Thomas

    Returning to fundamentals with humility.

  • Win Without Pitching — Blair Enns

    How an expert positions themselves without begging.

On the list

  • Building Microservices (2nd ed.) — Sam Newman

  • Database Internals — Alex Petrov

  • Software Engineering at Google — Winters et al.

  • The Phoenix Project — Kim, Behr, Spafford