7 Must Read Tech Books for Experienced Developers and Leads in 2025 (dev.to)
from cm0002@lemmy.world to programming@programming.dev on 28 Mar 01:13
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iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world on 28 Mar 15:46 next collapse

Except book #2 I fully agree, these are great books to read for someone who wants to grow their non technical skills.

balder1993@programming.dev on 28 Mar 15:57 collapse

Huh? It seems to me these are all books about technical skills.

iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world on 28 Mar 17:58 collapse

Phoenix Project and Unicorn Project are about non technical skills. Very entertaining books as well.

whotookkarl@lemmy.world on 28 Mar 17:36 next collapse

Some non tech book genres to add for devs and leads I think would be about the history of the computing/IT industry, labor history in general, hacker and maker culture, writings/letters of some of the researchers and engineers like Turning, Von Neumann, Dijkstra, Knuth, etc, and some classical and neoclassical literature.

alienscience@programming.dev on 29 Mar 08:29 collapse

I enjoyed reading the Phoenix Project and learnt a lot from it. It is a classic for very good reasons.

There was another follow up book – The DevOps Handbook that went into more detail about solutions to the problems raised in the Phoenix Project. I got a lot from the DevOps handbook but I found it quite a heavy read.

Years later I found a smaller, but super practical book, that covered much of the same subject matter – Operations Anti-Patterns, Dev Ops Solutions. I recommend this Manning book after the Phoenix Project.

But then I haven’t read the Unicorn Project yet, so that is a book for the list.