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Best Short Developer Books (Under 300 Pages)

1. A Philosophy of Software Design — John Ousterhout

196 pages · 2021 · software craft

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2. The Clean Coder — Robert C. Martin

256 pages · 2011 · software craft

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3. Test Driven Development — Kent Beck

240 pages · 2002 · software craft

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4. Understanding Distributed Systems — Roberto Vitillo

273 pages · 2022 · system design

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5. Grokking Algorithms — Aditya Bhargava

256 pages · 2016 · interview prep

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6. You Don't Know JS Yet: Get Started — Kyle Simpson

143 pages · 2020 · javascript

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7. JavaScript: The Good Parts — Douglas Crockford

176 pages · 2008 · javascript

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8. Architecture Patterns with Python — Harry Percival and Bob Gregory

280 pages · 2020 · python

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9. Concurrency in Go — Katherine Cox-Buday

238 pages · 2017 · golang

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10. Rust for Rustaceans — Jon Gjengset

282 pages · 2021 · rust

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