In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan review their top five books of the year! Join them as they discuss their favorite books, why they cracked the top five, and their thoughts on the first year of Book Overflow!
-- Books Mentioned in this Episode --
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(Cart's #2 and Nathan's #4)
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Mark Richards, Neal Ford
https://amzn.to/3BmCGs2 (Paid Link)
(Nathan's #5)
Building Evolutionary Architectures: Automated Software Governance 2nd Edition by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, Pramod Sadalage
https://amzn.to/3D93Zqj (Paid Link)
(Carter's #5)
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work? by Stephen Wolfram
https://amzn.to/4g3Ie9R (Paid Link)
(Carter's #4)
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers by Robert Martin
https://amzn.to/49xpbCn (Paid Link)
(Nathan's #3)
UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian W Kernighan
https://amzn.to/3BhsDo8 (Paid Link)
(Carter's #3)
Web Scalability for Startup Engineers by Artur Ejsmont
https://amzn.to/3D26n1U (Paid Link)
(Nathan's #2)
The Practice of Programming by Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike
https://amzn.to/4gh1gJS (Paid Link)
(Nathan's #1)
A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition Paperback by John Ousterhout
https://amzn.to/3OKf57x (Paid Link)
(Carter's #1)
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
https://amzn.to/41lMVaJ (Paid Link)
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00:00 Intro
02:07 The one book we both picked, Fundamentals of Software Architecture
09:28 Nathan's #5 - Building Evolutionary Architecture
12:39 Carter's #5 - What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
18:10 Carter's #4 - Clean Coder
22:50 Nathan's #3 - Unix: A History and a Memoir
27:41 Carter's #3 - Web Scalability for Startup Engineers
30:26 Nathan's #2 - The Practice of Programming
36:37 Nathan's #1 - A Philosophy of Software Design
52:43 Carter's #1 - Slow Productivity
58:54 Final Thoughts
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
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