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Honestly Clean Code probably isn't worth recommending anymore. We've taken the good bits and absorbed it into best practice. I think it has been usurped by books like "Software Engineering at Google" and "Building Secure and Reliable Systems".

I don't believe in being prescriptive to anyone about how they write their code, because I think people have different preferences and forcing someone to write small functions when they tend to write large functions well is a unique form of torture. Just leave people alone and let them do their job!

I don't think it is the perfect solution, but a lot of people assert "we can't do better, no point in trying, just write whatever you feel like" and I think that is a degenerate attitude. We CAN find better ways to construct and organize our code, and I don't think we should stop trying because people don't want to update their pull requests.

I'm a lot into how to streamline data architectures, especially around ML solutions, so some titles related to that.

I'm already reading Kleppman's book right now. Tons of very useful knowledge, although quite detailed, and a lot of details around distributed computing, consensus algorithms etc (Part II), which I'm not sure I will need and which make the book rather long. Still, surely worth pressing through.

Some titles I would like to dive into in the summer:

- "The Art of Immutable Architecture" by Michael Perry.
Possibly also:

- "Machine Learning Design Patterns" by by Valliappa Lakshmanan et al.

- "Building Secure and Reliable Systems" by by Heather Adkins et al.

And perhaps something lighter, more inspirational for the day to day work:

- "Coders at work" by Peter Seibel