/curated-fullstack-books

A curated list of full-stack development books.

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Knowing is half the battle. — G. I. Joe


This repository contains a list of curated books that are suitable for full-stack development. This is a mixture of both free and paid books. The titles are picked based on their high ratings and positive reviews from sites like Goodreads and Amazon.

Algorithms and Data Structures

  • A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms by Jay Wengrow
  • Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
  • Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Bhargava
  • Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas Cormen
  • Think Complexity by Allen B. Downey (Free)

Design Patterns & Code Quality

  • Adaptive Code by Gary McLean Hall
  • Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
  • Clean Code by Robert C. Martin
  • Code Complete by Steve McConnell
  • Code Quality by Diomidis Spinellis
  • Design Patterns by Erich Gamma
  • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
  • Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley
  • Refactoring by Martin Fowler
  • Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky

Full Stack Development

CI/CD

  • Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble
  • Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins by Rafał Leszko
  • Continuous Integration by Paul Duvall
  • Grokking Continuous Delivery by Christie Wilson
  • Pipeline as Code by Mohamed Labouardy

Databases

  • Database Design by Adrienne Watt (Free)
  • Database Design for Mere Mortals by Michael J. Hernandez
  • Essential SQLAlchemy by Jason Myers
  • MongoDB: The Definitive Guide by Kristina Chodrow
  • PostgreSQL Official Documentation
  • Redis by Jay A. Kreibich
  • SQL Antipatterns by Bill Karwin
  • SQL Cookbook by Anthony Molinaro
  • The Little Book of Redis by Karl Seguin

DevOps

  • Ansible for DevOps by Jeff Geerling
  • Ansible: Up and Running by Lorin Hochstein
  • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes by John Arundel
  • Cloud Native by Boris Scholl
  • Docker Deep Dive by Nigel Poulton
  • Docker for Sysadmins by Nigel Poulton
  • Kubernetes Best Practices by Brendan Burns
  • Kubernetes Patterns by Bilgin Ibryam
  • Kubernetes: Up and Running by Kelsey Hightower
  • Practical ELK Stack by Gurpreet S. Sachdeva
  • Prometheus: Up and Running by Brian Brazil
  • Terraform: Up and Running by Yevgeniy Brikman
  • The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim
  • The Kubernetes Book by Nigel Poulton

Python

  • A Guide to Python's Magic Methods by Rafe Kettler (Free)
  • Architecture Patterns with Python by Harry Percival (Free)
  • Beyond the Basic Stuffs with Python by Al Sweigart
  • Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design by Steven Lott (Free)
  • CPython Internals by Anthony Shaw
  • Clean Architectures with Python by Leonardo Giordani
  • Cython by Kurt Smith
  • Dive Into Python 3 by Mark Pilgrim (Free)
  • Effective Python by Brett Slatkin
  • Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho
  • High Performance Python by Micha Gorelick
  • Inside the Python Virtual Machine by Obi Ike Nwosu
  • Intermediate Python by Muhammad Yasoob Ullah Khalid
  • Practical Python Design Patterns by Wessel Badenhorst
  • Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming by Dusty Phillips
  • Python 3 Official Documentation (Online)
  • Python 3 Patterns, Recipes, and Idioms by Bruce Eckel (Free)
  • Python Cookbook by David Beazly
  • Python Design Patterns by Brandon Rhodes
  • Python Notes for Professional by goalkicker.com (Free)
  • Python Packages by Tomas Beuzen
  • Python Testing with Pytest by Brian Okken
  • Python for Data Analysis by Wes McKinney
  • Python re(gex)? by Sandeep Agarwal (Free)
  • Robust Python by Patrick Viafore
  • Test-Driven Development with Python by Harry Percival
  • Testing Python by David Sale
  • The Hacker's Guide to Python by Julien Danjou
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python! by Kenneth Reitz (Free)
  • The Little Book of Python Anti-Patterns by Kayce Basques
  • Using Asyncio in Python by Caleb Hattingh

Rust

  • Command-Line Rust by Ken Youens
  • Hands-on Concurrency with Rust by Brian Troutwine
  • Hands-on Rust by Herbert Wolverson
  • Programming Rust by Jim Blandy
  • Refactoring to Rust by Lily Mara
  • Rust Cookbook by Vigneshwer Dhinakaran
  • Rust Design Patterns by E. Dunham
  • Rust Servers, Services, and Apps by Prabhu Eshwarla
  • Rust Web Development by Bastian Gruber
  • Rust for Rustaceans by Jon Gjengset
  • The Art of WebAssembly by Rick Battagline
  • The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik (Free)
  • Zero to Production in Rust by Luca Palmieri

Web Architecture

  • AWS Lambda by Matthew Fuller
  • AWS Well-Architected Framework by AWS (Free)
  • Building Microservices by Sam Newman
  • Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
  • Distributed Systems by Maarten van Steen
  • Distributed Tracing in Practice by Austin Parker
  • Effective Kafka by Emil Koutanov
  • Kafka Streams in Action by Bill Bejeck
  • Kafka: The Definitive Guide by Gwen Shapira
  • Microservice APIs: With Examples in Python by Jose Haro Peralta
  • Microservice Patterns by Chris Richardson
  • RabbitMQ in Depth Gavin Roy
  • ZeroMQ: Messaging for Many Applications by Pieter Hintjens

Web Frameworks (Python)

  • Django Official Documentated Book (Online)
  • Explore Flask by Robert Picard Revision
  • Flask Web Development by Miguel Grinberg
  • Full Stack Python by Matt Makai (Free)
  • Lightweight Django: Using REST, WebSockets and Backbone by Julia Elman
  • Official Flask Documentation (Online)
  • Production-Ready GraphQL by Marc-Andre Giroux
  • REST APIs with Django by William Vincent
  • The Road to GraphQL by Robin Wieruch
  • Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices by Daniel Feldroy

Web Front-End

  • CSS in Depth by Keith Grant
  • Effective TypeScript by Dan Vanderkam
  • Learning React by Alex Banks
  • Programming TypeScript by Boris Cherny
  • You Don't know JS: Async & Performance by Kyle Simpson
  • React Design Patterns and Best Practices by Michele Bertoli
  • React Hooks in Action by Mark Tielens Thomas

Web Services

  • API Security in Action by Neil Madden
  • HTTP/2 in Action by Barry Pollard
  • HTTP: The Definitive Guide by David Gourley
  • Nginx Cookbook by Derek DeJonghe
  • Nginx Essentials by Valery Kholodkov
  • WebRTC APIs by Alan B. Johnston
  • Webhooks: Events for RESTful APIs by Matthias Biehl

Linux

  • Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper (Free)
  • Bash Reference Manual by Chet Ramey (Free)
  • GNU sed by Sandeep Agarwal (Free)
  • How Linux Works by Brian Ward
  • Modern Vim by Drew Neil
  • Practical Vim by Drew Neil
  • Pro Git by Scott Chacon
  • Shell Scripting by Steve Parker (Free)
  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
  • The GNU Awk User's Guide (Free)
  • tmux 2 by Brian Hogan

Software Engineering

  • A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
  • Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert C. Martin
  • BDD in Action by John Ferguson
  • Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans
  • Essential Scrum by Kenneth S. Rubin
  • Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards
  • Implementing Domain Driven Design by Vaughn Vernon
  • Introduction to System Design by Shivam Singh
  • Patterns, Principles and Practices of Domain Driven Design by Scott Millett
  • System Design Interview by Alex Xu
  • The Clean Coder by Robert C. Martin
  • The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau
  • The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks
  • The Nature of Software Development by Ron Jeffries
  • The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt
  • Unit Testing Principles by Vladimir Khorikov
  • Web Scalability for Startup Engineers by Ejsmont A.

Feel free to contribute. ;)