Software Development Fundamentals

The following lists my recommendations for getting a solid and practical software development foundation.
It focuses on the four main topics (in my point of view):

1. Software Engineering beyond your basic education or studies
2. Software Craftsmanship
3. DevOps
4. Software Architecture

With “beyond your education or studies” I mean something after you have already taken your education or studies in mathematical foundations, programming paradigms, languages and data structures. Some practical advices, something you can and should do every day at your software development work.

I have already read each of the following books and found them valuable. The same applies to the conferences.

In my opinion software development fundamentals are missing in many cloud projects, thus I published this list. Read more on Necessary basic knowledge is missing in many cloud projects.

Recommended Conferences

Only European and German:

• SOFTWARE CRAFTSMANSHIP LONDON
• QCon London
• OReilly Software Architecture Conference
• SEACON - Software Engineering und Architecture
• OOP

Recommended Books

• Software Engineering
  • Head First Design Patterns
  • Refactoring
  • Working Effectively with Legacy Code
  • Code Complete
  • Clean Code
• Software Craftsmanship
  • The Pragmatic Programmer
  • The Clean Coder
  • The Software Craftsman
• DevOps
  • Phoenix Project
  • The DevOPS Handbook
  • Release It!
  • Continuous Delivery
• Software Architecture
  • Software Architecture for Developers - Series
    • Technical leadership and the balance with agility
    • Visualise, document and explore your software architecture
  • Software Systems Architecture
  • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
  • Software Architecture in Practice
  • Documenting Software Architectures
  • arc42 Template
  • Clean Architecture
  • Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, A System of Patterns: Series
    • Volume 1
    • Volume 2
    • Volume 3
    • Volume 4
    • Volume 5

Recommended Trainings

These are only in Germany:

• Software Craftsmanship und Clean Code
• Clean Code Developer School
• Architekturakademie: Softwarearchitektur Hands-on - am eigenen Projekt
• Software Architecture Camp

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