Docker: SecDevOps
From introduction to advanced concepts
A great book about Docker, from introduction to advanced concepts all covered by easy-to-follow examples.
Readings
Book summaries and notes from my reading journey across software craftsmanship, psychology, philosophy, and personal development. Each entry includes key takeaways and my own reflections. If you're looking for your next book or want the essential ideas without the full read, start here.
Team Topologies
Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
Team Topologies focuses on how to set up dynamic team structures and interaction modes that can help teams adapt quickly to new conditions, and achieve fast and safe software delivery.
The Psychology of Money
Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel
There is no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don't have and don't need. Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness.
Modern CTO
In Modern CTO, Joel Beasley provides readers with an in-depth road map on how to successfully navigate the unexplored and jagged transition between these two roles. Drawing from personal experience, Joel gives a refreshing take on the challenges, lessons, and things to avoid on this journey.
Leaders Eat Last
Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
A company's biggest strength doesn't lie in its products or services. It always lies in its people, and in their ability to cooperate closely and rally behind the organization, especially during a crisis.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
A story
A fable in novella form about a seagull who is trying to learn about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
A Leadership Fable
This book is a leadership fable about a tech company that is struggling to get more customers. The C level is not working as a team, and they have a hard time coming to any agreements which result in negative morale. Until the new CEO, Catherine Petersen, joins the team, and she is able to recognize the problems and help the team overcome them by understanding the situation.
Start with Why
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Start with Why asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over?
Leadership is Language
The hidden power of what you say, and what you don't
In this book, the former submarine commander Captain L. David Marquet dives deep into one of the most investigated marine disasters, the sinking of the El Faro, and surfaces with new ideas on leadership and language.
The Bitcoin Standard
The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications.
Turn the Ship Around!
A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
The book is about his leadership theories to how he implemented a fresh leadership model. Including the limitations of a hierarchical top-down model, why/how he failed to empower his team earlier in his career, and how the circumstances for Santa Fe were ideal for him to experiment with the new leader-leader approach.
The Catcher in the Rye
The novel is a deeper reflection of Salinger's own youth, his complicated relationship with growing up and the generational trauma affected by World War II.
Lord of the Flies
Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse. It has established itself as a true classic. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island, and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves.
Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager
How to Be the Leader Your Development Team Needs
A great compilation of all topics that are important for management: 1:1s, performance reviews, hiring and laying off, workplace politics, remote work, and others.
Peopleware
Productive Projects and Teams
Software development is about people: when, how and where they can best work together. Not about programming languages or tools. Not about fast computers, networks or internet access.
The Art of Leadership
Small Things, Done Well
Leadership practices are small things done repetitively over time. Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.
97 Things Every Engineering Manager should know
Collective Wisdom from the Experts
As a manager your work is to create clarity, clarity, and more clarity.
Zombie Scrum Survival Guide
A Journey to Recovery
Zombie Scrum Survival Guide reveals why Scrum runs aground and shows how to supercharge your Scrum outcomes, while having a lot more fun along the way.
Agile Product Management with Scrum
Creating Products that Customers Love
Understanding the product owner’s role and envisioning the product.
Stock market investing
25 Golden Stock Investing Lessons
Stock market basics & essentials.