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Reading Shelf & Notes

Curated technical monographs, software design treatises, and literature that shape my engineering principles and mental models.

The Phoenix Projectphoenix-project
DevOps
★★★★★

The Phoenix Project

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

A novel about IT, DevOps, and helping your business win.

ManagementIT
Designing Data-Intensive Applicationsddia
System Design
★★★★★

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppmann

The definitive guide to building scalable, reliable, and maintainable data systems.

BackendDatabase
deep workdeep-work
Productivity
★★★★★

deep work

by Carl Newport

Cal Newport's book Deep Work argues that the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task is a rare and economically valuable superpower in the 21st century