
Chlebik Reviews
I read. Books I mean. A lot. Lots. All of them 😉 That’s a bold statement, but it’s actually true. On average I finish every year with circa 140-160 books read. Of course, not all of them are IT-related! A substantial subset of them is about psychology or philosophy (with not-that-small hint of spirituality). However, that part is covered in another place – my Polish-only blog about humanities. This page, focusing solely on programming and architecture, presents only books from this area. In order to make things easier, and also to have a single place where I keep all the reviews I have created – this page was created.
I know what the mainstream opinion is today. That books in the IT field are passe, and with such a fast-paced industry they’re just too slow in terms of delivering values. That they’re already outdated the day they are published. Well – I disagree. For sure that applies to yet another book variation about the latest JS framework. However I am convinced that there are a lot of books that are somehow evergreen in nature. Either by their topic or influence they had back in a day. Those kinds of books I am trying to read and review. If you share my view – please enjoy the wide range of reviews from the list below!
- [10-03-2025] “Writing for developers” by Piotr Sarna and Cynthia Dunlop
- [28-02-2025] “Refactoring at scale” by Maude Lemaire
- [17-02-2025] “High Performance MySQL” by Silvia Botros and Jeremy Tinley
- [04-02-2025] “Communication patterns. A guide for developers and architects” by Jacquie Read
- [04-11-2024] “Microservices patterns” by Chris Richardson
- [11-10-2024] “Brain Refactor: Optimize Your Internal Code To Thrive in Tech & Engineering and Get More Success, Fulfillment, Money, Opportunities, Impact, and Growth” by Dagna Bieda
- [03-10-2024] “Java concurrency in practice” by Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes, Doug Lea
- [27-09-2024] “Philosophy of software design” by John Oousterhout
- [19-09-2024] “Fundamentals of data engineering” by Joe Reiss, Matt Housley
- [22-08-2024] “Developing Apps with GPT-4 and ChatGPT” by Olivier Caelen, Marie-Alice Blete
- [16-08-2024] “System design interview” by Alex Xu
- [17-07-2024] “Mastering API architecture” by James Gough, Daniel Bryant , Matthew Auburn
- [12-07-2024] “Designing Data Intensive Applications” by Martin Kleppmann