My Tech & Business Reading Journey

This page documents my ongoing learning journey through various books related to Software Development, Business, and Personal Growth. You'll find a curated list of titles I've read from 2018 to the present (2025), reflecting my explorations in areas like Architecture, DevOps, Lean principles, and more. Feel free to browse and see if anything sparks your interest!

2025

Design Patterns
Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Monolith to Microservices
Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith
The DevOps Handbook
How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations
Large-Scale C++ Software Design
The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.
Sell or Be Sold
How to Get Your Way in Business and in Life
The Pumpkin Plan
A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field (Entrepreneurship Simplified)
If You're Not First, You're Last
Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition
Think and Grow Rich
The Landmark Bestseller Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century (Think and Grow Rich Series)
The 10X Rule
The Only Difference Between Success and Failure
2 Second Lean
(How to Grow People and Build a Fun Lean Culture at Work & at Home, 3rd Edition)

2024

Profit First
Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine (Entrepreneurship Simplified)
The First 90 Days
Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded
Drive
The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook
A Quick Reference Guide to 100 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed
SYSTEMology
Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems
The Body Keeps the Score
Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The E-Myth Revisited
Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
The Richest Man in Babylon
- The Original 1926 Classic (Reader's Library Classics)
Accounting Made Simple
Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less (Financial Topics in 100 Pages or Less)
Scientific Advertising
21 advertising, headline and copywriting techniques
Lean Marketing
More leads. More profit. Less marketing.
1-Page Marketing Plan
Rich Dad Poor Dad
What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
How to Sell Anything to Anybody
Tested Advertising Methods
(5th Edition) (Prentice Hall Business Classics)
Ogilvy on Advertising
The Language of Food
A Linguist Reads the Menu

2023

Making Work Visible
Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow

2022

The Lean Startup
How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
The Goal
A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 30th Anniversary Edition
Accelerate
The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
NoSQL Distilled
A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence
Building Evolutionary Architectures
Support Constant Change
Remote Team Interactions Workbook
Using Team Topologies Patterns for Remote Working
Administrative Behavior
, 4th Edition
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions
Hands-On Machine Learning
with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems
The Phoenix Project
(A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win)

2021

Linux Kernel Development

2020

Peopleware
Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)
Data Science on the Google Cloud Platform
Implementing End-to-End Real-Time Data Pipelines: From Ingest to Machine Learning
Kafka Streams in Action
Real-time apps and microservices with the Kafka Streams API
ZooKeeper
Distributed Process Coordination
Design It!
From Programmer to Software Architect (The Pragmatic Programmers)
Solr in Action
Database Internals
A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
In the Bubble
Designing in a Complex World (MIT Press)

2019

Soft Skills
The software developer's life manual
The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1
Fundamental Algorithms, 3rd Edition
A Discipline of Programming
Clean Architecture
A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series)
Software Fundamentals
Collected Papers by David L. Parnas
The Sciences of the Artificial
- 3rd Edition
The Mythical Man-Month
Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
Refactoring
Improving the Design of Existing Code
Analysis Patterns
Reusable Object Models
Chaos Monkeys
Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Domain-Driven Design
Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
The Data Model Resource Book, Vol. 1
A Library of Universal Data Models for All Enterprises

2018

Code Complete
A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition
The Pragmatic Programmer
From Journeyman to Master
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
Security Engineering, 2ed