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Designing Data Intensive Applications (Martin Kleppmann) - Fantastic perspective on your application's data.

I'll double down on this one.

I Will Teach You To Be Rich

I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi. Corny name, but generally good advice for people who don't have an interest in personal finance. I buy it for friends when they get engaged.

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Martin Fowler) - early-mid 2000s and it stays valuable to this day.

UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan.

The most impactful for me was Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez.

Your Money Or Your Life

Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez is a personal favorite. I re-read every year or so to make sure I'm thinking about my real personal goals.

Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez.

SQL Performance Explained (Markus Winand) - Just a killer, concise book to make you truly understand basic DB performance, specifically with indexes.

Clean Architecture into the ring though since we're in the topic.

The Clean Coder and those are absolutely worth it as well.

Clean Architecture (Robert Martin) - Great application architecture concepts being formalized