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A non-exhaustive list of non-fiction books that resonated with me the most.

Knowledge is power IF you put it into practice.

Everyone fail to get out of his or her comfort zone at some times.

Authors did a remarkable job of condensing in a single (massive) book all topics of interest for a system administrator using the 20/80 rule.

I love reading nonfiction books, particularly while commuting.

Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit.

Clearly the most approachable book on the topic.

Uncle Bob tackles the delicate subject of software architecture using the same recipe of the highly popular Clean Code.

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius This famous quote is nowhere near reality for more than two thirds of workers today.

Vaughn Vernon's previous book Implementing Domain-Driven Design (IDDD) was a real success, filling a gap in the literature.

Fluent Python showed me how illiterate I was about Python, and how bad my code was compared to idiomatic Python code.

For as long as I can remember, no nonfiction book have received such fervor in such a short time.

Discover the inner working of Font Awesome 4 by rewriting a minimalist version from scratch.

Am I selfish?

An international bestseller, million of readers, widely acclaimed as the Bible of creativity - I was so eager to read this book but I was not prepared to see the word God (aka The Great Creator) cited so many times.

The Memory Book stands apart from other books by its extensive list of examples that demonstrate the vast field of application of memory techniques.

With Humans vs Computers, you will discover the importance of software quality through the consequences of its absence.

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Following the recipe of the K&R book for the C language, The Go Programming Language book is the perfect companion to master the Go language.

After a decade of trying to figure out how to make art, Austin Kleon published 10 things he wished someone had told him when he was starting out.

Studies show that management is the biggest obstacle in transition to Agile software development.

Computer programming has existed as a human endeavor for less than one human lifetime.

The last few years have seen the publication of books arguing success has nothing to do with innate talent but is the results of such things as opportunity, motivation, and effort.

Malcolm Gladwell had the merit of being the first to debunk the myth of the genius and its innate talent in a mainstream book.

Much of what we think of the personality actually grows out of the mindset.

Use the Anki API to bulk the creation of your flashcards in Python.

Grit succeeds where Outliers fails in unveiling the secrets of success.

I recommend this book to anyone who has already learned the method of Loci, aka Memory Palace, and wishing to go further.

Why choose between Scrum and Kanban when both bring many valuable perspectives?

Every once in a while a book comes out that affect me so much that I cannot resist the urge to say to everyone, “You should read this book now!”.

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, founders of Basecamp (previously 37signals), used their experience to deliver an engaged and very practical book, explaining why companies should go remote.

Tony Buzan is a pioneer in brain demystification, the initiator of international brain competition about memory, speed reading, mental calculation and is a prolific author with more than half a dozen books on the subject of Mind Maps.

Kent Beck, world-renowned programmer once wrote, "I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habit."

ZooKeeper is used by many popular projects (HBase, Kafka, Accumulo) but has been completely absent from the literature until this book.

Moonwalking with Einstein follows the journey of a journalist in his quest to understand how memory champions could memorize the exact order of hundreds of digits in an hour, while he could barely remember his shopping list.

Discover the inner working of Spring Boot by rewriting a minimalist version from scratch.

Unlike other books on Hadoop, Hadoop Application Architecture try to provide the high level view architects need to make decisions about which tools to use to satisfy the "-ibilities".

If you are interested in both development and operations, and have basic familiarity with the command line, Ansible for DevOps will provide you with a beginner to expert-level understanding of Ansible and how you can use it to manage your infrastructure.

Let me lay it on the line, this book was a painful reading.

In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google's Site Reliability Engineering teams explain how they build, deploy, monitor and maintain large scale and ever changing applications like Gmail with great reliability.

Recently, Apache Mesos received a lot of attention, following the hype around containerization.

Discover the inner working of Spring Integration by rewriting a minimalist version from scratch.

Does we need a predisposition to inspire other people, or is it something we can learn?

Beginning with Bash is fairly simple but truly mastering it is a lot more complex.

I feel lost when I started to learn Hadoop.

People learn new spoken languages for multiples reasons.

The official reference documentation is really excellent : clear explanation, useful examples, but as a reference documentation, a lot of details are presented right from the start, with numerous repetitions that it can become annoying to read it.

Everybody uses Git everyday.

Could a book about a graphical tool like SonarQube be enjoyable to read?

You overcome the book Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP)?