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# Every Senior Engineer has read these books Notes:

> ([[Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium.pdf#page=1&annotation=743R|Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.1]])
> But they also read specifically, they read books that challenge assumptions about how software should be built.

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> ([[Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium.pdf#page=2&selection=2,41,2,42&color=yellow|Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.2]])
> 1. The Pragmatic Programmer Hunt & Thomas

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> The DRY principle originated here

> ([[Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium.pdf#page=2&selection=10,0,57,42&color=red|Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.2]])
> 
> Tracer bullet approach: 
> Instead of: 
> 	[Full DB layer] → [Full business logic] → [Full API] → [Full UI] 
> 	(nothing works until everything is done) 
> 	
> Do this: 
> 	[Minimal DB] → [Minimal logic] → [Minimal API] → [Minimal UI] 
> 	(thin slice works end-to-end, then iterate


> ([[Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium.pdf#page=2&selection=62,57,62,58&color=yellow|Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.2]])
> 2. Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann

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> ([[Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium.pdf#page=2&selection=133,16,133,17|Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.2]])
> Author’s website
<https://dataintensive.net/>

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> 3. The Mythical Man-Month Fred Brooks

> ([[Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium.pdf#page=2&annotation=749R|Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.2]])
> Nine women cannot deliver a baby in one month.

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> ([[Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium.pdf#page=3&selection=48,28,48,29&color=yellow|Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.3]])
> 4. Refactoring Martin Fowler

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> ([[Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium.pdf#page=3&selection=158,56,158,57&color=yellow|Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.3]])
> 5. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts Richards & Ford

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> 6. Working Effectively with Legacy Code Michael Feathers

![[2026-05-22-every-senior-engineer-i-respect-has-read-these-books-have-you-by-the-latency-gambler-mar-2026-medium-03.png]]

> ([[Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium.pdf#page=4&selection=81,33,81,34&color=yellow|Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.4]])
> 7. Database Internals Alex Petrov

![[2026-05-22-every-senior-engineer-i-respect-has-read-these-books-have-you-by-the-latency-gambler-mar-2026-medium-04.png]]

> ([[Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium.pdf#page=4&selection=180,50,180,51&color=yellow|Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.4]])
> 8. A Philosophy of Software Design John Ousterhout

![[2026-05-22-every-senior-engineer-i-respect-has-read-these-books-have-you-by-the-latency-gambler-mar-2026-medium-05.png]]

> ([[Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium.pdf#page=4&selection=182,40,184,14&color=yellow|Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.4]])
> Ousterhout’s core argument: the primary enemy of software quality is complexity, and complexity accumulates through shallow modules, information leakage, and temporal decomposition.

> ([[Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium.pdf#page=5&selection=94,30,94,31&color=yellow|Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.5]])
> 9. Clean Code Robert C. Martin

> ([[Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium.pdf#page=5&annotation=760R1|Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.5]])
> The Reading Order That Makes Sense

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> ([[Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium.pdf#page=6&selection=3,0,3,34&color=yellow|Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.6]])
> Nine books. Maybe 4,000 pages tota