The Pragmatic Engineer
Gergely Orosz
Software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software.
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Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Software Engineer's Guidebook
Georges Oroz
#2 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Building Mobile Apps at Scale
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Jorge Oroz
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Philosophy of Software Design
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John Osterholt
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Staff Engineer's Path
by Tanya Riley
Tanya Riley
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Software architecture
Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline
David Garlan
Mary Shaw
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Accelerate
The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Nicole Forsgren
Gene Kim
Jez Humble
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Refactoring
Improving the Design of Existing Code
Martin Fowler
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
Martin Kleppman
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Showstopper
Anya Wallach
Lisa Fiedler
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Write Useful Books
Rob Fitzpatrick
Adam Rosen
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Laundry Files
A series of novels combining Lovecraftian horror, spy thriller, science fiction, and workplace humor
Charles Stross
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
A Biography
Robert A. Caro
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Last Days of Night
Ina Friedman
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The C++ programming language
Bjarne Stroustrup
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The hard thing about hard things
building a business when there are no easy answers
Ben Horowitz
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey Moore
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Tim Ferriss
