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    Category: Book of the Week

    Our team’s choice of books that have helped us get up to speed, stay current and get ahead.

    Each of these books has been among our personal favorites that we recommend to colleagues, friends – and now you.

    SOFT SKILLS: The Software Developer’s Life Manual

    Written in 2014 then revised and updated in 2019, this book shares one software developer’s experience of building and using his suite of soft skills…

    Auxo January 19, 2023
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    Snow Crash

    One of the most well-known science fiction works of all time, Snow Crash sits alongside William Gibson’s Neuromancer as a key text in the cyberpunk…

    Auxo January 4, 2023
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    The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

    “This book is a belated answer to Tom Watson’s probing question as to why programming is difficult to manage” “Tom Watson” is Thomas J Watson,…

    Auxo December 23, 2022
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    Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products and Services

    UX. User Experience. The difference between success or failure for a tech product – and that means pretty much any products in today’s world. Your…

    Auxo December 19, 2022
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    Book of the Week: Engineers Survival Guide

    Merih Taze is a Senior Software Engineering lead at Facebook and was previously at Microsoft and Snapchat. He lists self improvement and life-long learning among…

    Auxo December 9, 2022
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    Book of the Week: The Art of Scalability

    Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher first became really well known for handling the challenges that came from building out eBay and PayPal. As AKF Consulting,…

    Auxo December 2, 2022
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    Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher first became really well known for handling the challenges that came from building out eBay and PayPal. As AKF Consulting, they've helped many other organizations - like Etsy - prepare for, and then handle, their own growth challenges.

    It's not a techies book! At least, it's not just a techies book. An organization or project is only as good as the people, so that's where The Art of Scalability begins. Learn about how people, organization, leadership and management all relate to the business challenge.

    Next up are the processes for controlling work, managing incidents and controlling change. Without control, any working environment will descend into chaos. The wrong processes will make things worse by making it difficult to either recognize that problems exist or to do something about them.

    Finally, having shown how to set up an organization to do great things, the book rounds off with technical considerations around planning, designing, testing and building out scalable systems to deliver business, stakeholder and customer value.

    Whether you're just starting out in a tech career or getting ready for your next challenge, The Art of Scalability will help you understand how technology organizations meet the challenges of growth, for your own role and the others around you.

    Fisher and Abbot discuss scalability at Etsy (2011)

    https://youtu.be/yIxpSD-l4dk

    About this book

    In The Art of Scalability, Second Edition, leading scalability consultants Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher cover everything you need to know to smoothly scale products and services for any requirement. This extensively revised edition reflects new technologies, strategies, and lessons, as well as new case studies from the authors’ pioneering consulting practice, AKF Partners.

    Writing for technical and nontechnical decision-makers, Abbott and Fisher cover everything that impacts scalability, including architecture, process, people, organization, and technology. Their insights and recommendations reflect more than thirty years of experience at companies ranging from eBay to Visa, and Salesforce.com to Apple.

    You’ll find updated strategies for structuring organizations to maximize agility and scalability, as well as new insights into the cloud (IaaS/PaaS) transition, NoSQL, DevOps, business metrics, and more. Using this guide’s tools and advice, you can systematically clear away obstacles to scalability - and achieve unprecedented IT and business performance.

    Coverage includes

    • Why scalability problems start with organizations and people, not technology, and what to do about it

    • Actionable lessons from real successes and failures

    • Staffing, structuring, and leading the agile, scalable organization

    • Scaling processes for hyper-growth environments

    • Architecting scalability: proprietary models for clarifying needs and making choices–including 15 key success principles

    • Emerging technologies and challenges: data cost, datacenter planning, cloud evolution, and customer-aligned monitoring

    • Measuring availability, capacity, load, and performance

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