What are the best software developer books? This is obviously a subjective question. The best books for a software engineer or developer are always going to be a personal choice, and vary by their interests and maybe the technology that they work in, but not all software books are tech-specific. In this episode, Dave Farley makes his recommendation for the 5 books most likely to help you become a better developer. For each, Dave gives you his book review and explains why the book is so important. These are all books that have moved the game of software development forward. Dave also mentions quite a few other books that didn’t quite make the top 5 but that had an influence on his career, including some of his own. ----------------------------------------------------------- 📚 BOOKS: 🚨 MY NEW BOOK! 👉 📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is now available on Amazon ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 In this book, Dave brings together his ideas and proven techniques to describe a durable, coherent and foundational approach to effective software development, for programmers, managers and technical leads, at all levels of experience. 📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines 📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx Domain Driven Design, by Eric Evans ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WXJ94m Specification By Example, by Gojko Adzic ➡️ https://amzn.to/2TlfYaH Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests, By Nat Price & Steve Freeman ➡️ https://amzn.to/2Lt3jho Accelerate, The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, by Nicole Fosgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim ➡️ https://amzn.to/2YYf5Z8 The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim ➡️ https://amzn.to/3csuuop Infrastructure As Code ➡️ https://amzn.to/3ppZXxJ Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) ➡️ https://amzn.to/30ntgaK Test Driven Development: By Example (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series), Kent Beck ➡️ https://amzn.to/2NcqgGh Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories - Gojko Adzic ➡️ https://amzn.to/3jXM481 Team Topologies - Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais ➡️ https://amzn.to/2Y0NdSO Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design Scott Ambler & Pramod Sadalage ➡️ https://amzn.to/36BjHrT Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems, by Sam Newman ➡️ https://amzn.to/31PyXOS Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Kent Beck ➡️ https://amzn.to/2GpQRjE Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects, Gojko Adzic ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gs3PL8 Release It!, Michael Nygard ➡️ https://amzn.to/38zrINu Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition ➡️ https://amzn.to/3oCyPeU The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World, David Deutsch ➡️ https://amzn.to/2MrOEqA Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin) (Robert C. Martin Series) ➡️ https://amzn.to/3aLXGad Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules, by Steve McConnell ➡️ https://amzn.to/38OKgtP The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition ➡️ https://amzn.to/3EdXvBm NOTE: Some of the above are 'Affiliate Links', which means that we get a very small fee if you buy one of these books using the link, but it does not increase the cost to you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also from Dave: 🎓 CD TRAINING COURSES If you want to learn Continuous Delivery and DevOps skills, check out Dave Farley's courses ➡️ https://bit.ly/DFTraining 📧 JOIN CD MAIL LIST 📧 Keep up to date with the latest discussions, free "How To..." guides, events, online courses and exclusive offers. ➡️ https://bit.ly/MailListCD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANNEL SPONSORS: Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0 Harness helps engineers and developers simplify and scale CI/CD, Feature Flags and Cloud Cost Management with an AI-powered platform for software delivery. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Cfx3qI Octopus are the makers of Octopus Deploy the single place for your team to manage releases, automate deployments, and automate the runbooks that keep your software operating. ➡️ https://octopus.com/ SpecFlow Behavior Driven Development for .NET SpecFlow helps teams bind automation to feature files and share the resulting examples as Living Documentation across the team and stakeholders. ➡️ https://go.specflow.org/dave_farley