I enjoy reading software books. Here’s a list of the books I read:

• A Philosophy of Software Design
  • A concise book covering the methods to manage complexity of the software. The concept I like most about this book is “deep and shallow objects”. Author believes engineers should strive for objects with thin interface but deep capability.
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
  • I read this book back in the high school days when I was focusing on algorithm problems. Although readability didn’t count in the contest (IOI, Codeforces) I participated. I still find writing clean code an interesting and beneficial idea.
• The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
  • This was the book I read before I started my first full-time job at Kronos. It built my non-code knowledge about software engineer. For example, estimation, testing, collaboration.
• Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14
  • This book covered modern C++ topics. I read it before my first C++ job (Google internship). It helped me to understand what C++ at work looks like.
• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
  • A satisfy book to read. It explained concepts related to distributed data systems. I like the deep dives it went to each topic.
• The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups
  • This book explains SWE roles, levels and companies. It also gave advice about what we should focus on each stage.
• Functional Programming in Scala
• Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
• Object Thinking
• Patterns Principles and Practices of Domain-Driven Design

Also huge thanks to Josh Chen who gave me a kindle when we worked at Kronos. I read with it on MRT almost everyday.