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Cover of Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems Building Secure and Reliable Systems Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Piotr Lewandowski, Ana Oprea, Adam Stubblefield · 2020 Design, test and ship so that human errors and attacks do not bring production down. 6.4/10
Cover of Computer Networks: A Systems Approach Computer Networks Larry Peterson & Bruce Davie · 2020 The reference textbook, now open source, that explains why the Internet is shaped the way it is and why it holds up. 7.6/10
Cover of High Performance Browser Networking High Performance Browser Networking Ilya Grigorik · 2013 The book that taught web developers that latency, not bandwidth, decides how fast their pages feel. 8/10
Cover of Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing: A journey into high scalability, availability, and maintainability with Windows Azure Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing Dominic Betts, Julian Dominguez, Grigori Melnik, Fernando Simonazzi, Mani Subramanian · 2012 The practical A-to-Z guide: CQRS, Event Sourcing, Process Managers and Sagas explained on a real project, with honest trade-offs and hard-won lessons. 8.2/10
Cover of The little Eventmodeling Book: Typical Eventmodeling Questions - quickly answered The little Eventmodeling Book Martin Dilger · 2025 The Q&A guide to decode Event Modeling: the 3 system building blocks, the completeness check, the pure Command Handler — and 8 steps to get your team started. 6/10
Cover of Domain-Driven Design Reference: Definitions and Pattern Summaries Domain-Driven Design Reference Eric Evans · 2015 The official Domain-Driven Design glossary: all of Evans' patterns in sixty pages, freely available online. 6.4/10
Cover of Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming Eloquent JavaScript Marijn Haverbeke · 2024 The most honest JavaScript introduction, freely available online. Updated for ES2024. 8.8/10
Cover of Pro Git Pro Git Scott Chacon, Ben Straub · 2014 The official Git reference, free and translated. From first commits to the guts of .git. 8.6/10

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