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Most-mentioned books in r/ExperiencedDevs during 2019

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/ExperiencedDevs within the published source unit for 2019. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Cover of Cracking the Coding Interview #1

Cracking the Coding Interview

Gayle Laakmann McDowell

The book credited with inventing the modern coding interview, argued about like it's also on trial for it.

9 in 2019
Cover of Designing Data-Intensive Applications #2

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

Martin Kleppmann walks backend engineers through every database, queue, and consistency tradeoff they'll eventually get paged about.

7 in 2019
Cover of Clean Code #3

Clean Code

Robert C. Martin

Robert Martin's case that unreadable functions are a discipline failure, not an inevitability, argued one renamed variable and one extracted method at a time.

6 in 2019
Cover of The Manager's Path #4

The Manager's Path

Camille Fournier

A software engineer becomes a tech lead, then a manager, then a director, and the book insists on teaching you each rung separately.

4 in 2019
Cover of Code Complete #5

Code Complete

Steve McConnell

Steve McConnell's seven-hundred-page argument that construction, not design or testing, is where most software quality is actually won or lost.

2 in 2019
Cover of Design Patterns #6

Design Patterns

Erich Gamma

Four authors catalog twenty-three recurring object-oriented problems in 1994 and hand every future code review the same argument to have.

2 in 2019
Cover of The Effective Manager #7

The Effective Manager

Mark Horstman

Mark Horstman turns 'have a good one-on-one with your reports' into a repeatable weekly protocol, built out of his Manager Tools podcast.

2 in 2019
Cover of Clean Architecture #8

Clean Architecture

Robert C. Martin

Robert Martin's rule: business logic sits at the center of the system, frameworks and databases plug in at the edges, never the other way around.

1 in 2019
Cover of Deep Work #9

Deep Work

Cal Newport

Cal Newport keeps his phone in a drawer and his calendar walled off in four-hour blocks, and argues that's the only way anyone still produces work that matters.

1 in 2019
Cover of Elements of Programming Interviews in Python #10

Elements of Programming Interviews in Python

Adnan Aziz

Three hundred coding-interview problems, an online judge, and a study guide, all built to answer a shorthand Reddit already assumes you know: EPI.

1 in 2019
Cover of Peopleware #11

Peopleware

Tom DeMarco

DeMarco and Lister time how long it takes a programmer to get back into the zone after one interruption, then build a whole management argument around that number.

1 in 2019
Cover of So Good They Can't Ignore You #12

So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport

Cal Newport argues that career advice to 'follow your passion' is actively bad, and that skills, not passion, make work fulfilling.

1 in 2019
Cover of The Clean Coder #13

The Clean Coder

Robert C. Martin

Uncle Bob's professionalism manual: say no to bad estimates, refuse death marches, and work the 40 hours then study on your own time.

1 in 2019
Cover of The Mythical Man-Month #14

The Mythical Man-Month

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Fred Brooks managed IBM's late-1960s OS/360 project, then wrote the book explaining why adding more programmers only made it later.

1 in 2019
Cover of The Phoenix Project #15

The Phoenix Project

Gene Kim

A struggling IT VP inherits a doomed project, a company on the edge of collapse, and one coworker who has quietly become the company's entire bottleneck.

1 in 2019
Cover of The Pragmatic Programmer #16

The Pragmatic Programmer

Andy Hunt

Two working programmers write down the shop habits senior engineers use so junior ones stop reinventing them badly.

1 in 2019