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Python Crash Course is a quick, no-nonsense guide to programming in Python.

High Performance MySQL teaches you advanced techniques in depth so you can bring out MySQL's full power. Learn how to design schemas, indexes, queries, and advanced MySQL features for maximum perfo...

The DevOps Handbook has 590 ratings and 58 reviews. Quentin said: tl;dr This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand, explain and implement Dev...

The Art of War has 222,853 ratings and 6,925 reviews. Anne said: Hey! Look at me stepping outside my comfort zone!I saw this audiobook in the library...

The Art of Strategy has 1,374 ratings and 78 reviews. David said: This book is an engaging, comprehensive guide to strategies, as applied to everyday lif...

The Linux Programming Interface has 368 ratings and 22 reviews. Anton said: Great book. I'm halfway through and I learnt a lot of stuff and cleared my un...

A great way to get started on building real-world applications using Scala and its tools and frameworks.

Peopleware has 6,174 ratings and 337 reviews. Ben said: Peopleware is something of a classic in the world of Development management and it makes sense wh...

Getting Naked has 2,479 ratings and 244 reviews. Michael said: Getting Naked is a metaphor advanced in a new book by the prolific and insightful Patric...

Clean Code has 8,835 ratings and 532 reviews. Oana said: These are rather notes than a review while reading:1. Use very descriptive names. Be consisten...

Who Moved My Cheese? has 270,381 ratings and 8,378 reviews. Seizure Romero said: SPOILER ALERT! I am going to save anyone who thinks they need to read th...

Andy and Dave wrote this seminal, classic book to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. Almost twenty years later, its advice is still spot on, and the Pragmatic philosophy has spawned hundreds of our books, screencasts, audio books, and success stories. We're here to help you get on top of your game.

Where to publish something has becoming a difficult decision for a lot of businesses. You read so many stories about using various channels to distribute content and grow traffic, it’s hard to know what does and doesn’t work. Medium, in particular, has become a major player in the world of startup content, but is it really that great?

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In the haste to address the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that shook the computer industry, several clumsy patch attempts have had to be pulled.

It’s not a get-rich-quick scheme, but it is an opportunity to show Big Corp what you’re made of.

There are cases where great efforts have been made to adopt microservice patterns without understanding the specifics of the problem at hand...

At a convention for stutterers, for the first time Rachel Hoge finds herself among many just like her.

When design leads to friendship, and that friendship leads back to design, magic happens. This is the story of how an intern and her…

Updated Jan. 21st, 2018: Added AppRun and dva. Keeping up with JavaScript frameworks can be a challenge. There are a lot of them, and seemingly another one every month. How do you know which ones might be right for your project? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How do you

Laws of UX is a collection of the key maxims that designers must consider when building user interfaces.

An Exhaustive List of all the Elements you need to have/test Before Launching your Website To Production.

Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understa…

Two years ago today, I stocked up on canned chili, dusted off the desk in my home office and officially left my job. Photo Credit: kolbisneat If you want the whole story from the early days, I wrote this post 150 days in on how I turned down a guaranteed 6-figure payday to go into a…

How to hash passwords properly using salt. Why hashes should be salted and how to use salt correctly.

Discord continues to grow faster than we expected and so does our user-generated content. With more users comes more chat messages. In…

webpack is a brilliant tool for bundling frontend assets. When things start to slow down, though, its batteries-included nature and the…