Stratus3D

A blog on software engineering by Trevor Brown

Books I Have Read

Text in bold denotes books that I highly recommend.

Software Engineering

  • Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review by Jason Cohen, Steven Teleki and Eric Brown
  • Software Performance and Scalability by Henry H. Liu
  • Exploring Expect by Don Libes
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
  • Vagrant: Up and Running by Mitchell Hashimoto
  • Ansible: Up and Running by Lorin Hochstein
  • sed & awk by Dale Dougherty
  • Release It! by Michael T. Nygard
  • Mature Optimization Handbook by Carlos Bueno
  • Practical Monitoring: Effective Strategies for the Real World by Mike Julian
  • The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
  • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim
  • Site Reliability Engineering

Erlang/Elixir

Linux/UNIX

  • How Linux Works by Brian Ward
  • The UNIX Programming Environment by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike
  • The Design of the Unix Operating System by Maurice J. Bach
  • DNS and BIND by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu

Javascript

  • Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
  • Interactive Data Visualization for the Web by Scott Murray

Bash

  • Advanced Bash Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper

Ruby

  • Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz
  • Ruby Science by Joe Ferris and Harlow Ward
  • Multitenancy with Rails by Ryan Bigg
  • Testing with RSpec by Aaron Sumner

PHP

  • PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition) by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson

Python

  • Dive Into Python by Mark Pilgrim
  • Foundations of Python Network Programming (2nd Edition) by Brandon Rhodes and John Goerzen
  • Practical Django Projects (2nd Edition) by James Bennet

Lua

  • Programming in Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy

Vim

  • The VimL Primer by Benjamin Klein
  • Modern Vim: Craft Your Development Environment with Vim 8 and Neovim by Drew Neil

Databases

  • Graph Databases by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber and Emil Eifrem
  • Learning Cypher by Onofrio Panzarino
  • Seven Databases in Seven Weeks by Eric Redmond and Jim R. Wilson
  • Designing Event-Driven Systems by Ben Stopford

Data Science

Machine Learning

  • The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book by Andriy Burkov

3D Graphics

  • Digital Lighting and Rendering (2nd Edition) by Jeremy Birn
  • Introducing Character Animation with Blender by Tony Mullen
  • Mastering Blender by Tony Mullen

Business

  • The Secret of Selling Anything by Harry Brown
  • The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  • Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker
  • Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury and Bruce Patton
  • Platform by Michael Hyatt
  • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
  • Zero to Sold by Arvid Kahl

Healthcare

  • Principles of Health Interoperability, HL7, and SNOMED by Tim Benson
  • Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America

Economics

  • The Use of Knowledge in Society by Friedrich Hayek

Ham Radio

  • The No-Nonsense Technician-Class License Study Guide by Dan Romanchik

Mathematics

  • Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Morris Kline
  • Introductory Statistics by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean
  • Think Stats (2nd Edition) by Allen B. Downey