Essential Books for Backend Developers
Here's my curated list of the best backend books for developers. Quick Comparison Book Author Pages Year Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann 616 2017 System Design Interview Volume
Here's my curated list of the best backend books for developers.
Quick Comparison
1. Designing Data-Intensive Applications
By Martin Kleppmann ยท 616 pages ยท 2017
A solid system design book that every developer should consider.
2. System Design Interview Volume 1
By Alex Xu ยท 322 pages ยท 2020
A solid system design book that every developer should consider.
3. System Design Interview Volume 2
By Alex Xu and Sahn Lam ยท 434 pages ยท 2022
A solid system design book that every developer should consider.
4. Web Scalability for Startup Engineers
By Artur Ejsmont ยท 400 pages ยท 2015
A solid system design book that every developer should consider.
5. Building Microservices
By Sam Newman ยท 616 pages ยท 2021
A solid system design book that every developer should consider.
6. Fundamentals of Software Architecture
By Mark Richards and Neal Ford ยท 422 pages ยท 2020
A solid system design book that every developer should consider.
7. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
By Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, Zhamak Dehghani ยท 459 pages ยท 2021
A solid system design book that every developer should consider.
8. Understanding Distributed Systems
By Roberto Vitillo ยท 273 pages ยท 2022
A solid system design book that every developer should consider.
9. Docker Deep Dive
By Nigel Poulton ยท 290 pages ยท 2023
A solid devops book that every developer should consider.
10. Kubernetes in Action
By Marko Luksa ยท 600 pages ยท 2022
A solid devops book that every developer should consider.
11. The Phoenix Project
By Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford ยท 432 pages ยท 2018
A solid devops book that every developer should consider.
12. Site Reliability Engineering
By Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Murphy ยท 552 pages ยท 2016
A solid devops book that every developer should consider.
13. Terraform: Up & Running
By Yevgeniy Brikman ยท 510 pages ยท 2022
A solid devops book that every developer should consider.
14. Infrastructure as Code
By Kief Morris ยท 410 pages ยท 2020
A solid devops book that every developer should consider.
15. The DevOps Handbook
By Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis ยท 528 pages ยท 2021
A solid devops book that every developer should consider.
16. Continuous Delivery
By Jez Humble and David Farley ยท 512 pages ยท 2010
A solid devops book that every developer should consider.
17. Database Internals
By Alex Petrov ยท 350 pages ยท 2019
A solid databases book that every developer should consider.
18. SQL Performance Explained
By Markus Winand ยท 204 pages ยท 2012
A solid databases book that every developer should consider.
19. Redis in Action
By Josiah Carlson ยท 320 pages ยท 2013
A solid databases book that every developer should consider.
20. MongoDB: The Definitive Guide
By Shannon Bradshaw, Eoin Brazil, Kristina Chodorow ยท 514 pages ยท 2019
A solid databases book that every developer should consider.
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