Contents

• Summary
• Online Resources
  • Architectural Patterns
  • Database
  • Logging
  • Object-Oriented Design
  • Refactoring
  • Revision Control
  • Service-Oriented Architecture
  • Others

Summary

This is a curated list of the most didactic and/or deeply detailed must-read resources about software development.

Online Resources

Architectural Patterns

Is a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software architecture within a given context. Architectural patterns are similar to software design pattern but have a broader scope.

• Articles / Papers

  • Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) by Martin Fowler
  • Event Sourcing
  • Getting Started With DDD When Surrounded By Legacy Systems by Eric Evans
  • Hexagonal Architecture by Alistair Cockburn
  • The Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
  • The Onion Architecture by Jeffrey Palermo

• Books

  • Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans

• Videos

  • Architecture the Lost Years by Robert C. Martin (The Clean Architecture)
  • DDD & Microservices: At Last, Some Boundaries! by Eric Evans
  • What is programming MVC? by J. Alexander Curtis

Database

A database is an organized collection of data. It is the collection of schemas, tables, queries, reports, views, and other objects.

• Books
  • SQL Indexing and Tuning by Markus Winand (Free web-edition)

Logging

In computing, a logfile is a file that records either events that occur in an operating system or other software runs, or messages between different users of a communication software. Logging is the act of keeping a log.

• Articles / Papers
  • Logging levels: the wrong abstraction, by Daniel Lebrero
  • Tracing Request IDs by Brandur
  • The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction by Jay Kreps

Object-Oriented Design

Object-Oriented Design is the process of planning a system of interacting objects for the purpose of solving a software problem.

• Articles / Papers

  • Applying Design by Contract, by Bertrand Meyer
  • Command Query Separation (CQS) by Firat Atagun
  • Dealing with Properties by Martin Fowler
  • GRASP
  • Keep It DRY, Shy, and Tell the Other Guy by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
  • Tell, Don't Ask (Examples)
  • The Law of Demeter Is Not A Dot Counting Exercise by Phil Haack
  • SRP: The Single Responsibility Principle
  • The Open-Closed Principle
  • The Liskov Substitution Principle
  • The Interface Segregation Principle
  • The Dependency Inversion Principle

• Books

  • Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development by Craig Larman

• Videos

  • Nothing is Something by Sandi Metz
  • SOLID Object-Oriented Design by Sandi Metz

Refactoring

Code refactoring is the process of restructuring existing computer code—changing the factoring—without changing its external behavior. Refactoring improves nonfunctional attributes of the software.

• Articles / Papers

  • Code Smells by Jeff Atwood
  • Dont Repeat Yourself (DRY) by Andrew Hunt
  • On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules by David Parnas (Decomposing)
  • Towards a Principle-based Classification of Structural Design Smells by Ganesh Samarthyam, Tushar Sharma and Girish Suryanarayana (Design Smells)

• Books

  • Refactoring for Software Design Smells: Managing Technical Debtby Ganesh Samarthyam, Tushar Sharma and Girish Suryanarayana
  • Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke and Don Roberts

• Videos

  • Get a Whiff of This by Sandi Metz (Code Smells)
  • All the Little Things by Sandi Metz (Small Objects)

Revision Control

Revision control is any kind of practice that tracks and provides control over changes to source code.

• Articles / Papers

  • Gitflow - A successful Git branching model by Vincent Driessen
  • GitLab Flow
  • GitHub Flow by Scott Chacon
  • Git Style Guide by Agis Anastasopoulos

• Books

  • Pro Git by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub

Service-Oriented Architecture

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a style of software design where services are provided to the other components by application components, through a communication protocol over a network. The basic principles of service-oriented architecture are independent of vendors, products and technologies.

• Articles / Papers
  • SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services by Matt Welsh, David Culler and Eric Brewer
  • Twelve-factor App Methodology by Adam Wiggins

Others

Last but not least.

• Articles / Papers
  • Learn Regex by Zeeshan Ahmed
  • Semantic Versioning Specification (SemVer) by Tom Preston-Werner
  • The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky
  • Time by Emil Mikulic
  • The Infinite Hows (or, the Dangers Of The Five Whys) by John Allspaw (Post-hoc/Postmortems)
  • What every web developer must know about URL encoding by Stéphane Épardaud
  • What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory by Ulrich Drepper
  • What Every Programmer Should Know About SEO by Kate Matsudaira
  • What's the Difference Between Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery? by Marko Anastasov
  • What technical details should a programmer of a web application consider before making the site public?