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Luca Ferrari, Enrico Pirozzi: Learn PostgreSQL (2020, de Gruyter GmbH, Walter)
Matthew Walker: Why We Sleep (Paperback, 2018, Penguin Books UK, Penguin Books Ltd)
Steven S Skiena: The Algorithm Design Manual (1997)

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Bernard Cornwell: Der weiße Reiter. Uhtred 02 (Paperback, 2007, Rowohlt Taschenbuch)
Andrzej Sapkowski: Witcher Series Andrzej Sapkowski 7 Books Collection Set Inc Sword Of Destiny (Paperback, 2019, Gollancz)
William Zinsser: On Writing Well (Paperback, 2016, Harper Perennial)

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Bernard Cornwell: Ultimo Reino (Paperback, 2006, Record)
Junji Itō: Fragments of horror (2015)
Bruce A. Tate, Sophie DeBenedetto: Programming Phoenix LiveView (2022, The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC)

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reviewed It doesn't have to be crazy at work by Jason Fried

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Jason Fried: It doesn't have to be crazy at work (2018)

"In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject …

Review of "It doesn't have to be crazy at work" on 'Goodreads'

This book tells you to stop being the "passionate employee", stop "changing the world", and other common sense things that are just marketing empty phrases to make you to spend your life working more for less.

reviewed Spring Microservices in Action by John Carnell

John Carnell: Spring Microservices in Action (Paperback, Manning Publications)

Review of 'Spring Microservices in Action' on 'Goodreads'

Great book to understand how to build microservices using Netflix OSS technologies through Spring Cloud. If you always wondered how to build a "Cloud Native" service in Java, this is the book. Unfortunately, this book won't be a 5-star due to the writing quality. There are too many holes in the code examples: the chapter about security barely works, you have to research by yourself. I don't advise this book for people that does not have experience with Spring framework.

To sum up, this book teaches many concepts that are required for a sane life dealing with microservices such as Service Discovery (Netflix Eureka), Load balance, Circuit-breakers & Bulkheads (Netflix Ribbon), API Gateway (Netflix Zuul), Log tracing, Distributed tracing (Zipkin), and others. On the other hand, it requires some prior experience on Spring framework from the reader.

reviewed Clojure for the Brave and True by Daniel Higginbotham

Daniel Higginbotham: Clojure for the Brave and True (2015, No Starch Press)

"Guide to the functional programming language Clojure. Teaches tools and techniques for writing programs in …

Review of 'Clojure for the Brave and True' on 'Goodreads'

The book has toons of information about Clojure, but I found it hard to keep reading for there were far too many jokes. I was expecting a book that would actually teach me how to use Clojure in a professional, day-to-day way, but there were too many "funny" examples such as "changing immutable gnome socks states". This is a nice beginner book though.

reviewed Learn Functional Programming with Elixir by Ulisses Almeida

Ulisses Almeida: Learn Functional Programming with Elixir (Paperback, 2018, Pragmatic Bookshelf)

An introduction to functional programming using the Elixir programming language.

Review of 'Learn Functional Programming with Elixir' on 'Goodreads'

This book teaches you the basics of functional programming using Elixir. It is not a deep dive, but it helps you to learn the basics of Elixir. Don't expect to finish this book and start building web applications or feeling confident with Elixir. There are other books for it.

reviewed Lean Software Development by Mary Poppendieck (Agile)

Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck: Lean Software Development (Paperback, 2003, Addison-Wesley Professional)

In business I often come across software development. And with this question I try to …

Review of 'Lean Software Development' on 'Goodreads'

This book explains how to apply Agile with principles, practices and advice based on facts and historical experiences. A must-read for leaders, managers and people who want to learn more about agile and empowering teams.