Recommended Books

Fundamentals

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Best Practices

• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
• Test Driven Development: By Example
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

The craft

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
• The Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
• The Art of UNIX Programming
• The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development

Software as a Product

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software

Distributed Systems

• Designing Elixir Systems with OTP
• Programming Erlang (2nd edition)

Application Architecture

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) — an O’Reilly book by Martin Kleppmann (The Wild Boar Book))