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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, p.1) But they also read specifically, they read books that challenge assumptions about how software should be built.
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- The Pragmatic Programmer Hunt & Thomas
(Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.2) The DRY principle originated here
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, 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, p.2) Author’s website https://dataintensive.net/
(Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.2) 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, 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, 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, p.3) 5. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts Richards & Ford
(Every Senior Engineer I Respect Has Read These Books (Have You_) _ by The Latency Gambler _ Mar, 2026 _ Medium, p.4) 6. Working Effectively with Legacy Code Michael Feathers
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(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
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(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
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(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, 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, 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, p.6) Nine books. Maybe 4,000 pages tota