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The books that shaped me as a developer, distilled into honest notes: the ideas that stick, a rating out of 10, and what I really think.

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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 Pentesting APIs: A practical guide to discovering, fingerprinting, and exploiting APIs Pentesting APIs Maurício Harley · 2024 The attacker's moves against an API, from recon to bypass, with demos you must reread before trusting them. 5.6/10
Cover of Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition Jean-Philippe Aumasson · 2025 Which algorithm to choose, which to avoid, and the usage mistakes (nonce, randomness, comparison) that ruin even a good algorithm. 6.8/10
Cover of TLS & HTTPS Explained - Visualizations and Localhost Setup in 2025 TLS & HTTPS Explained - Visualizations and Localhost Setup in 2025 SkillZone · 2025 From click to padlock: the keys, the certificate (the site's ID) that the browser checks, and HTTPS on your own machine. 6.2/10
Cover of Claude Code Enterprise Mastery: Ship Faster, Ship Safer Claude Code Enterprise Mastery Ritesh Vajariya · 2026 A video course on locking down Claude Code for a team: deny first, enforced settings, costs, compliance, phased rollout. 5.4/10
Cover of Defending APIs: Uncover advanced defense techniques to craft secure application programming interfaces Defending APIs Colin Domoney · 2024 API defense from a practitioner: per-object authorization, an OpenAPI contract audited in CI, locked-down JWTs, mTLS between services. 6.4/10
Cover of Web Application Security: Exploitation and Countermeasures for Modern Web Applications Web Application Security Andrew Hoffman · 2024 Recon, offense, defense: web security told from both sides of the firewall. 7.8/10

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