Hey HeartyTwine. You can checkout AOSA (Architecture of Open-source Applications): https://aosabook.org/en/ 
  
 500 lines or less is an amazing book among others because it puts constraints on the author to write code supporting the architecture in less than 500 lines. 
  
 The other books in the series are very good too. 
  
 Another book that I can recommend is Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler. 
  
 I hope you like them.

How do i learn about architecture and the working of various softwares?

I know github can be one way but there's no consolidated resource and also most of

How do i learn about architecture and the working of various softwares?

I know github can be one way but there's no consolidated resource and also most of softwares are not oss.

Learning architecture of softwares

Learning architecture of softwares- Grapevine

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I am 4 months into my first job as a product manager. I have never coded in my life except for a basic coding course in college. While I am always eager to understand technical concepts and tend to ask a lot of questions around the same I still feel there's a huge gap in communication. 

This leads to poorly estimated timelines, and often difficulty in assessing feasibility of ideas.

I wish to learn more about software architecture, data management systems and the development processes in general. 

While I know I lack technical expertise, I don't want to discount the possibility of this just being a communication issue within the team. This is a series B startup just entering the growth phase, so no proper processes are set up as of now - again something I will have to streamline.

My question is to all the product managers especially who don't come from a technical background - how did you bridge this gap?

Resources for Non-Tech PMs

Product Manager

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Want to create some open-source software. If anyone can guide me how to start building the community or some basic knowhow of building from any prior knowledge, then that would be very helpful. I have decent amount of experience but not in developing oss.

TIA

Need some help around open source software

Software Engineer

I am already working as a software developer and I want to become good at it. But where in the world should I begin the mastering of the development?.
Is coding, data structures, system design, system architecture, Design patterns or should just go for best practices , there are other things in development the more i search the more I find different terms.
I thought of starting by doing leet code but working almost the whole day then doing coding separately doesn't seem feasible so thought of figuring out doing something which I can integrate with my work.

Software Design vs Architect vs Programming vs System Design....

Software Developer

I am writing this with a lot of disappointment. 
I have been working in TCS from the past 3 years. I got allocated to a project which required very little technical knowledge. As a result of this, I have not gained any technical experience. 
I have been trying to learn DevOps. There isn’t a shortage of resources as there’s plenty of them online. However what I find the most challenging is that I am unable to create projects of my own. Most of the online tutorials do not spend quality time on teaching how to replicate them locally. 
Most of them are on cloud (AWS/Azure) which require a subscription. 
It wold be great to get some guidance on how to proceed with devops and how I can switch to the field without technical experience. 

Thanks in advance.

DevOps guidance

I had picked up DDIA and was wondering if reading the entire book is actually worth it. Is it better to just go through some GitHub repos or blogs that summarise the book well?

Also what are some books that have actually helped you through your software engineering career and you would highly recommend?

What are some books or resources that you would highly recommend? (Software Engineering)

Few people asked me for my recommendations on Tech resources -

I'll divide across following sections -

1. CS Fundamentals - Its a recommended flow that you should know beyond knowing how to code. 
Follow this - https://teachyourselfcs.com/

2. DSA -
a) https://neetcode.io - Its blind 150 is awesome. Its paid courses are also decent
b) CLRS book (How can we leave that?)

3. System Design resources -
a) System Design interview Vol 1 and 2 - Alex Xu OR you can take annual subscription of their website - https://bytebytego.com
b) The OG book - DDIA - this is a must read and has very high ROI

4. Backend Engineering - 
- Learning Backend development like a curriculum - https://boot.dev
- Coding challenges 
a) For beginners to experienced - https://codingchallenges.fyi/challenges/intro
b) For experienced folks - (codecrafters.io) https://app.codecrafters.io/r/adorable-eagle-556273 (Referral)

5. Software Engineering -
What Software Engineering truly is? - Software Engineering at Google Book(Oreilly)

6. DevOps / AWS -
a) AWS course - https://learn.cantrill.io/ - To learn more in depth than just passing certifications
b) Other DevOps resources - kodekloud.com (all devops tools, especially kubernetes ones are good)
c) What SRE truly is? - Site Reliability Engineering book (Oreilly)

7. Promotions / Impact / Growing in the role -
a) JoinTaro - Website where you get answers to your questions about promotions, impact etc. https://www.jointaro.com/r/sarvajs408/ - Check the founders posts on linkedin on what to look for
b) Software Engineering Handbook by Gergely

7. Misc / Good to read -
a) Head first series by Oreilly publication (Design Patterns, OOAD)
b) Chaos Engineering (Oreilly)

If you guys think we can add more things, where you know the resources are absolute best to be recommended for the return on investment(time, money) they give, please do drop in your recommendations in the comments

Software Engineering Resources Recommendations

Hello People 

I have been working as a product manager for 2 years. Mostly I worked on the business side. Now I want to upskill myself on the tech side as well. Please suggest some ways to learn software development. I want to know more about the important things like the backend, frontend, database, cloud computing etc. 

PS: I don't want to become a software developer I just want to upskill myself so that I can decide on the tech aspects of the product also. 

Thanks in advance.

Want to learn more about software development

The number of influencers trying to sell their courses on coding and systems design has just went nuts. Anyone and everyone who is working in FAANG / MAANG/ WTFAANG seems to be selling dreams to everyone that this is how you get into and sustain into large scale companies.

Once these engineers join after clearing interviews (which are more or less a repeat of the same questions being asked for a thousand times), they find it hard to scale themselves to solve the real world challenges that are thrown at them. And then the complaining starts from all the angles.

For the sake of it, FAANG and all other such top tier companies are not gonna help you once your mental peace if completely f…ed up. 

If you think you are genuinely interested in solving issues at scale, spend some real time learning the basics, how the day to day software you use works, spend some time actually researching and banging your head trying to grasp how things are, because most of the challenging issues you are gonna face in your upcoming career won’t have youtube videos available to explain you why they happen.

Stop filling the pockets of influencers to teach you things which you should be putting efforts to learn by exploring yourself.

Rant over

These coding and system design courses in getting out of hands

Staff Engineer

So I resumed practicing DSA recently. I mainly use C++ for this purpose. Few days back I saw a post which was kind of a roadmap and the first bullet point there was to get thorough with the language. I kind of agree with this and at some point I was meaning to understand c++ better, few level deeper. So thinking of taking a pivot for this purpose. 

So c++ veterans of grapevine, need your recommendations for this. Open to books and video tutorial both. Not looking for syntax learning and all but how c++ works under the hood. I maybe drawing an inappropriate parallel with this but something like namaste javascript by Akshay sahni or you don't know js kind of material. I did started with gfg c++ blogs but that material  feels unstructured and a bit less intuitive. 

Grateful to you all in advance.

Deeper understanding of C++/JAVA

This is something that helped me a lot during my Engineering days and some of it I even used during my job. It is great to work through these problems out of curiosity as it builds great intuition around computing and algorithms.

This course provides an introduction to mathematical modeling of computational problems.

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