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?
Going through the book is recommended. It's quite good. I'd suggest learning CS fundamentals well before proceeding with this. It's book on Distributed computing, so better be aware of underlying components, you know, like OS, CN, DBMS, computer Architecture etc
Yes, I am a backend engg and I have experience working with distributed computing tools like pyspark and dask.
ReleaseIT by Mike Nygard. He’s a must read and listen guy if you develop/operate massively distributed systems at scale.
Experienced people out here please list must read books for working software engineer professional. I have 3yoe experience, but now I want to learn/strengthen my understanding, programming knowledge that will help me to do great in this...
Few people asked me for my recommendations on Tech resources -
I'll divide across following sections -
"a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" or "neem hakeem khatra jaan"
I realised this recently when I went through my old bookmarked videos and realised I learnt it wrong.
Now i know better from my experience, but it's quite shoc...
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.
I am an early career dev with a few years of experience primarily in the frontend domain. I want to read atleast 2 technical books next year to upskill in general as a software engineer. Please share your recommendations.
