Curated list

Books that changed how I architect systems

12 booksresource

A short, opinionated list of books that shaped how I think about systems.

Most architecture books are verbose and outdated. Here are the ones that are neither.

The list

  • Domain-Driven Design — Eric Evans. Learn to think in systems.
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann. Read the chapters on consistency and consensus.
  • The Art of Unix Programming — Eric Raymond. Old but timeless.
  • Building Microservices — Sam Newman. The chapter on testing is worth the book alone.

These are the ones I recommend to engineers I mentor. Read them in order.

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