Bassam Ismail

📚 Library

A catalogue of all books I have been reading over the years. I continue to use Goodreads, eventually, all the books would be tracked here.

2024

• 26 March, 2024
  Concurrency in Go: Tools and Techniques for Developers
• 15 January, 2024
  Distributed Systems Observability
• 07 January, 2024
  Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design

2023

• 29 December, 2023
  Making Sense of Stream Processing
• 26 December, 2023
  No-Drama Discipline
• 06 December, 2023
  Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
• 15 November, 2023
  Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
• 05 November, 2023
  Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
• 15 October, 2023
  Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy
• 01 September, 2023
  The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
• 07 August, 2023
  Company Of One
• 17 July, 2023
  Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
• 14 July, 2023
  12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
• 12 July, 2023
  How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
• 01 July, 2023
  Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology
• 14 June, 2023
  Broke Millennial Takes On Investing: A Beginner's Guide to Leveling Up Your Money

2022

• 19 June, 2022
  Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
• 21 March, 2022
  Cloud Native Spring in Action: With Spring Boot and Kubernetes
• 01 March, 2022
  Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
• 01 March, 2022
  Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• 13 February, 2022
  Resilient Management
• 09 February, 2022
  The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
• 21 January, 2022
  Functional-Light JavaScript: Pragmatic, Balanced FP in JavaScript
• 06 January, 2022
  Node Cookbook: Discover Solutions, Techniques, and Best Practices for Server-Side Web Development with Node.js 14

2021

• 28 December, 2021
  Zero To Production In Rust
• 19 December, 2021
  Distributed Systems with Node.js: Building Enterprise-Ready Backend Services
• 09 December, 2021
  So Good They Can't Ignore You
• 11 November, 2021
  14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers
• 01 November, 2021
  The Tech Resume Inside Out
• 24 October, 2021
  The Tech Executive Operating System: Creating an R&D Organization That Moves the Needle
• 10 October, 2021
  Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
• 01 October, 2021
  Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
• 25 September, 2021
  Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
• 16 September, 2021
  TypeScript in 50 Lessons
• 02 September, 2021
  Becoming a Category of One: How Extraordinary Companies Transcend Commodity and Defy Comparison
• 25 August, 2021
  Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track
• 09 August, 2021
  Let's Talk Money: You've Worked Hard for It, Now Make It Work for You
• 29 July, 2021
  Debugging Teams: Better Productivity through Collaboration
• 23 July, 2021
  Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
• 18 July, 2021
  How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
• 10 July, 2021
  Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software
• 17 June, 2021
  Developer Marketing Does Not Exist: The Authentic Guide to Reach a Technical Audience
• 21 May, 2021
  The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well
• 15 May, 2021
  Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
• 14 May, 2021
  The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age
• 12 May, 2021
  Rust in Action
• 14 April, 2021
  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
• 06 April, 2021
  No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
• 30 March, 2021
  Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
• 28 March, 2021
  99 Bottles of OOP
• 23 March, 2021
  De-Coding The Technical Interview Process
• 22 March, 2021
  Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
• 18 March, 2021
  The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
• 09 March, 2021
  The Kubernetes Book: 2024 Edition
• 03 March, 2021
  Writing An Interpreter In Go
• 21 February, 2021
  Advanced TypeScript
• 18 February, 2021
  An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
• 13 February, 2021
  The Prophet
• 11 February, 2021
  The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
• 05 February, 2021
  Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
• 29 January, 2021
  Ownership Thinking: How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose, and Profit
• 28 January, 2021
  System Design Interview – An insider's guide
• 20 January, 2021
  The Alchemist
• 17 January, 2021
  A Philosophy of Software Design
• 10 January, 2021
  The Psychology of Money
• 02 January, 2021
  Animal Farm
• 01 January, 2021
  Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

2020

• 01 January, 2020
  The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life (Stoic Philosophy Book 1)
• 01 January, 2020
  The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life

2019

• 22 September, 2019
  It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
• 01 February, 2019
  The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
• 09 January, 2019
  Remote: Office Not Required
• 04 January, 2019
  Modern Web Development on the JAMstack

2018

• 29 November, 2018
  Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
• 01 July, 2018
  Shazam! Power of Hope
• 20 May, 2018
  Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job
• 20 May, 2018
  The Infinity Gauntlet
• 29 January, 2018
  The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
• 16 January, 2018
  How to Win Friends and Influence People
• 09 January, 2018
  Practical SVG
• 06 January, 2018
  The New CSS Layout

2017

• 25 January, 2017
  The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
• 15 January, 2017
  Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People

2016

• 27 July, 2016
  Batman: The Killing Joke