Category: Software Engineering

Rating: 7.9/10. Mastering PostgreSQL 15: Advanced techniques to build and manage scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant database applications by Hans-Jürgen Schönig A fairly comprehensive overview of PostgreSQL database for developers, including many advanced features and also security and performance, backups and replication, with good descriptions of when to use each feature and examples. Chapter 1. New features…

Rating: 7.4/10. Efficient Linux at the Command Line: Boost Your Command-Line Skills by Daniel J. Barrett Book on the more advanced aspects of the bash shell and bash scripting, including how child processes work with local and environment variables, different ways of executing commands with output substitution, why changing directories in a shell script doesn’t…

Rating: 7.7/10. Building Browser Extensions: Create Modern Extensions for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge by Matt Frisbie Book about browser extensions, covering the basics of extensions primarily for Chrome but also for other browsers. It explores different parts of extensions and how they can interact with each other, as well as the sandbox model, various…

Rating: 8.0/10. Designing Web APIs: Building APIs That Developers Love by Brenda Jin, Saurabh Sahni, Amir Shevat A fairly short book about best practices for designing web APIs to be easy to use and maintainable, written by three engineers who worked on the Slack API integration, which has been a successful marketplace for apps. Chapter…

Rating: 7.1/10. Identity-Native Infrastructure Access Management: Preventing Breaches by Eliminating Secrets and Adopting Zero Trust by Ev Kontsevoy, Sakshyam Shah, Peter Conrad Book about security best practices is aimed at enterprise and large-scale systems, with the goal of protecting cloud infrastructure in the most secure way. It also aims to prevent the accidental sharing of…

Rating: 7.9/10. Learning React: Modern Patterns for Developing React Apps by Alex Banks and Eve Porcello This is a good introductory book on React that starts from the basics, including JavaScript and React components, then goes on to explain the usages of many different React hooks, how they work, and in what situations they should…

Rating: 7.4/10. Cloud Native: Using Containers, Functions, and Data to Build Next-Generation Applications by Boris Scholl, Trent Swanson, Peter Jausovec Book about cloud design patterns, and I got bored about halfway through, mostly because it had a heavy focus on distributed systems and coordinating multiple services using cloud infrastructure, which is not very relevant to…

Rating: 8.0/10. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale by Boris Cherny Book about the TypeScript language, which adds a strong typing system and a type inference engine to JavaScript. The material is fairly advanced and assumes a solid understanding of JavaScript features. It covers many advanced TypeScript features, including a rough sketch of how…