Review: Smart and Gets Things Done by Spolsky
This is a very quick read on how to hire programmers. It’s full of insights and interesting thoughts from someone who has been in the trenches of being a programm...
This is a very quick read on how to hire programmers. It’s full of insights and interesting thoughts from someone who has been in the trenches of being a programm...
This book does a great job of covering most of the critical concepts of lean/agile development. The organization of the book is a bit random and the writing can o...
This book is worth reading, but it’s not particularly enjoyable. It’s one of those complicated affairs that shows just how inadequate a 5-star rating system is to...
If you’re new to microservices, this book is a decent intro, covering most of the major topics you need to be aware of. It only covers the topics at a surface lev...
This book has two problems: first, they don’t define DevOps; second, they don’t define the target audience. As a result, while the book contains a lot of interest...
This is a story about a girl growing up in Nazi Germany. It talks about war, the holocaust, the Hitler Youth. Oh, and the narrator is literally death. Despite th...
The other day, I did an interview for the Yours Productly podcast where I talk about startups, product design, coming up with startup ideas, minimal viable produ...
Once you read this book, you realize that most programming books are about how to write code that works in the dev environment. “Release It!” is about how to writ...
This book is a fun read if you want to hear the stories of a number of viral companies and products. However, if you want to learn how to create something viral o...
A funny thing happened last week. I wrote another book! It’s called Terraform: Up & Running and it’s now available as an early release in the O’Reilly S...