Engineering Book Summaries

The Design of Everyday Things Summary
The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman 1988 257 pages
4.15
45k+ ratings
Design
Business
Psychology
A Philosophy of Software Design Summary
A Philosophy of Software Design
by John Ousterhout 2018 190 pages
4.22
3k+ ratings
Programming
Technology
Software
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic Summary
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic
by Michael Jay Geier 2010 316 pages
3.92
100+ ratings
Reference
Engineering
Technology
The Manager's Path Summary
The Manager's Path
A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
by Camille Fournier 2017 226 pages
4.26
9k+ ratings
Management
Leadership
Business
Designing Data-Intensive Applications Summary
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
by Martin Kleppmann 2015 562 pages
4.71
9k+ ratings
Programming
Technology
Computer Science
Toyota Production System Summary
Toyota Production System
Beyond large-scale production
by Taiichi Ohno 1978 152 pages
4.10
1k+ ratings
Business
Management
Leadership
The Toyota Way Summary
The Toyota Way
14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
by Jeffrey K. Liker 2003 330 pages
4.08
10k+ ratings
Business
Management
Leadership
Wiring the Winning Organization Summary
Wiring the Winning Organization
Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification
by Gene Kim 2023 384 pages
4.25
100+ ratings
Business
Leadership
Management
System Design Interview – An insider's guide Summary
System Design Interview – An insider's guide
by Alex Xu 2020 324 pages
4.28
2k+ ratings
Technology
Programming
Computer Science
Software Engineering Summary
Software Engineering
by Ian Sommerville 1982 784 pages
3.77
500+ ratings
Computer Science
Programming
Technical
Building Secure and Reliable Systems Summary
Building Secure and Reliable Systems
Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems
by Heather Adkins 2020 541 pages
3.86
100+ ratings
Technology
Engineering
Technical
Normal Accidents Summary
Normal Accidents
Living with High-Risk Technologies
by Charles Perrow 1984 464 pages
4.04
500+ ratings
Science
Engineering
Technology
The Staff Engineer's Path Summary
The Staff Engineer's Path
A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
by Tanya Reilly 2022 335 pages
4.41
1k+ ratings
Technology
Leadership
Software
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Summary
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Learning to Learn
by Richard Hamming 1996 376 pages
4.17
1k+ ratings
Science
Engineering
Technology
Kubernetes Patterns Summary
Kubernetes Patterns
Reusable Elements for Designing Cloud-Native Applications
by Bilgin Ibryam 2019 266 pages
4.32
100+ ratings
Technology
Technical
Engineering
How To Build A Car Summary
How To Build A Car
by Adrian Newey 2017 400 pages
4.47
11k+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Engineering
The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook Summary
The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook
A Quick Reference Guide to 100 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed
by Michael L. George 2004 225 pages
3.95
1k+ ratings
Business
Reference
Management
The Grid Summary
The Grid
The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by Gretchen Bakke 2016 384 pages
3.87
4k+ ratings
Science
History
Technology
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us Summary
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
by Sarah Drasner 2022 220 pages
4.19
500+ ratings
Management
Leadership
Technology
Flying Blind Summary
Flying Blind
The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
by Peter Robison 2021 336 pages
4.19
3k+ ratings
Business
History
Aviation
Staff Engineer Summary
Staff Engineer
Leadership Beyond the Management Track
by Will Larson 2021 337 pages
4.06
2k+ ratings
Leadership
Technology
Management
Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager Summary
Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager
by James Stanier 2020 374 pages
4.36
500+ ratings
Management
Leadership
Business
The Engineering Executive's Primer Summary
The Engineering Executive's Primer
Impactful Technical Leadership
by Will Larson 2024 360 pages
4.28
100+ ratings
Leadership
Management
Technology
Skunk Works Summary
Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
by Ben R. Rich 1994 382 pages
4.46
14k+ ratings
History
Biography
Military Fiction
Frontend Architecture for Design Systems Summary
Frontend Architecture for Design Systems
A Modern Blueprint for Scalable and Sustainable Websites
by Micah Godbolt 2015 198 pages
3.35
100+ ratings
Design
Technology
Programming
Tidy First? Summary
Tidy First?
A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design
by Kent Beck 2023 122 pages
3.93
500+ ratings
Programming
Technology
Software
The Art of Electronics Summary
The Art of Electronics
by Paul Horowitz 1980 1125 pages
4.40
1k+ ratings
Engineering
Science
Reference
Modern Software Engineering Summary
Modern Software Engineering
Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
by David Farley 2021 256 pages
4.17
1k+ ratings
Programming
Technology
Software
Site Reliability Engineering Summary
Site Reliability Engineering
How Google Runs Production Systems
by Betsy Beyer 2016 550 pages
4.22
2k+ ratings
Technology
Programming
Computer Science
The Idea Factory Summary
The Idea Factory
Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner 2012 432 pages
4.20
8k+ ratings
History
Business
Science
The Formula Summary
The Formula
How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
by Joshua Robinson 2024 304 pages
4.37
3k+ ratings
Sports
Business
History
Observability Engineering Summary
Observability Engineering
Achieving Production Excellence
by Charity Majors 2022 318 pages
3.77
100+ ratings
Technology
Software
Programming
The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy Summary
The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy
Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler
by Mark Schwartz 2020 342 pages
4.10
100+ ratings
Business
Leadership
Management
An Elegant Puzzle Summary
An Elegant Puzzle
Systems of Engineering Management
by Will Larson 2019 289 pages
4.09
3k+ ratings
Management
Leadership
Business
Sooner Safer Happier Summary
Sooner Safer Happier
Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
by Jonathan Smart 2020 416 pages
4.21
500+ ratings
Business
Leadership
Management
Kubernetes in Action Summary
Kubernetes in Action
by Marko Luksa 2017 624 pages
4.60
500+ ratings
Technology
Programming
Technical
Intelligence-Driven Incident Response Summary
Intelligence-Driven Incident Response
Outwitting the Adversary
by Scott J. Roberts 2017 282 pages
4.21
100+ ratings
Technology
Technical
Reference
Site Reliability Engineering Summary
Site Reliability Engineering
How Google Runs Production Systems
by Betsy Beyer 2016 550 pages
4.22
2k+ ratings
Technology
Programming
Computer Science
The Effective Engineer Summary
The Effective Engineer
How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
by Edmond Lau 2015 260 pages
4.26
1k+ ratings
Programming
Technology
Software
Seeking SRE Summary
Seeking SRE
Conversations about Running Production Systems at Scale
by David N. Blank-Edelman 2018 945 pages
4.16
100+ ratings
Technology
Technical
Computer Science
The AI Playbook Summary
The AI Playbook
Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment
by Eric Siegel 2024 256 pages
4.12
50+ ratings
Business
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
The Idea Factory Summary
The Idea Factory
Learning to Think at MIT
by Pepper White 1991 328 pages
3.85
100+ ratings
Education
Science
Biography
Software Engineering at Google Summary
Software Engineering at Google
Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
by Titus Winters 2020 599 pages
4.19
1k+ ratings
Programming
Technology
Software
Defensive Security Handbook Summary
Defensive Security Handbook
Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure
by Lee Brotherston 2017 282 pages
3.95
100+ ratings
Technical
Technology
Engineering
The Things We Make Summary
The Things We Make
The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
by Bill Hammack 2023 272 pages
3.76
1k+ ratings
History
Science
Engineering
Success through Failure Summary
Success through Failure
The Paradox of Design
by Henry Petroski 2006 256 pages
3.58
100+ ratings
Engineering
Science
Design
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Summary
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering
by Steven H. Strogatz 1994 497 pages
4.38
1k+ ratings
Mathematics
Science
Physics
The Right Kind of Crazy Summary
The Right Kind of Crazy
A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
by Adam Steltzner 2015 256 pages
3.80
500+ ratings
Science
Space
Business
The Unwritten Laws of Business Summary
The Unwritten Laws of Business
by W.J. King 1944 112 pages
3.99
5k+ ratings
Business
Management
Engineering
The Evolution of Useful Things Summary
The Evolution of Useful Things
How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are
by Henry Petroski 1994 288 pages
3.53
1k+ ratings
History
Science
Design
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