Which programming books are still "must reads" aka. essential reading for your career, in 2021?

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  • ddia-references

    Literature references for “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”

    • The best thing about the book is that every few paragraphs or so there must be some references in IEEE format (e.g. [22]) which link to mostly published papers, but there are also blog posts, conference videos, and even tweets! For some topics you are interested in, but not discussed in depth in the book (it has already 600 pages!), you can learn more from the references. In total there are literally hundreds of references, which are also catalogued in the author’s GitHub repository. Many recent papers are also mentioned and discussed in the book that you can consider it as a very long survey or review paper in distributed systems.

  • You-Dont-Know-JS

    A book series on JavaScript. @YDKJS on twitter.

    • Kyle Simpson has all the text on GitHub, and there are even second editions of the first two books: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/

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  • Cleaner-Code

    Rewriting some Clean Code examples in a way that I think is cleaner

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