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Get the inspiration you need to bring in new technologies or gain the extra evidence to support your software development plan. Learn from language creators and the world's leading experts in software development through key insights from their most recent books.

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Programming with Kotlin: Why, How and Kotlin’s Place in the Future

January 14, 2021

GOTO Book Club Yule Special

December 23, 2020

2020 has indeed been a different year. Many good things have happened, but the year has also shown that the world needs us more than ever. Software has a huge global impact and power and responsibility should go hand in hand, which unfortunately is not always the case. We've chatted with Martin Fowler, Richard Feldman, Mike Amundsen, Dave Thomas, Erik Schön, Saša Jurić, Casey Rosenthal, and Aino Vonge Corry about what was good in 2020 and how we can make 2021 better.

Secure Your Containers with Advice from Liz Rice

December 17, 2020

What should you do to secure your containers? Liz Rice, author of the book Container Security: Fundamental Technology Concepts that Protect Containerized Applications & VP of open source engineering at Aqua Security, and Eoin Woods, CTO at Endava, explore what containers are, what are the implications of a shared kernel and how to assess potential security risks that could affect your deployments. Learn best practices and understand how containers work in this Book Club interview.

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Life at the Frontier: How To Use Organizational and Technical Knowledge To Effect Change in Their Company

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Get some practical advice on how you, as a software architect or senior developer, can bring about change in your organization by combining both technical and organizational knowledge. Gregor Hohpe, the author of "The Software Architect Elevator" shares some of the real-life lessons that will help you have a significant impact on your role.

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Discover the technologies or solutions that you were not aware of through the key takeaways from the most recent and important books from software development. Get one newsletter per month with a quick overview of four hand picked books, written by domain authorities.

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THE ART OF STRATEGY

Erik Schön

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Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice 1st Edition

Casey Rosenthal

Nora Jones

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Graph Databases: New Opportunities for Connected Data 2nd Edition

Jim Webber

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Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith 1st Edition

Sam Newman

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Our Authors

Richard Feldman

Author of “Elm in Action” and THE Elm master

Aino Vonge Corry

Author of Retrospectives Antipatterns

Jim Webber

Gregor Hohpe

Chief IT Architect at Allianz Technology

Eberhard Wolff

Prolific author of "Microservices: Flexible Software Architecture". Working for 15+ years as an architect & consultant

Venkat Subramaniam

Award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Dave Thomas

Author of The Pragmatic Programmer

Kevlin Henney

Editor of two books both including '97' in the title; excellent and entertaining on stage. One of our favorite quotes by Kevlin: "Less code = less bugs"