My recommended books for IT Architects, 2020
Sharing is caring. This being said, I want to share my personal top 3 IT related books from this “Corona” year which I recommend for my fellow IT architects:
No 1.
The Software Architect Elevator: Transforming Enterprises with Technology and Business Architecture by Gregor Hohpe.
A very intellectual and quite easy read for all IT Architects, CTOs and IT Consultants working with large companies. This book is packed with lots of practical insights and valuable experience that will help us all to calibrate our work purpose and become better architects!
Every one of the things described in this book has made me think – “yes this is exactly how things are” also it helps to understand various rea-life situations even better. This book is an excellent guide to an aspiring architect to know what to expect in the industry and how to work towards building successful projects.
No 2.
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais.
Great and practical content to help reason when we design teams, architecture, or organizational structure.
Book describes fundamental topologies and patterns, cognitive load and interaction types what are essential concepts to know for managers and architects when scaling and transforming teams. It also enables to build more clear and sustainable software/IT architecture, turning inter-team problems into valuable signals for the self-steering organization.
No 3.
DevOps Paradox: The truth about DevOps by people on the front line by Victor Farcic.
Not that popular but interesting read, widening general understanding of DevOps. This is not a typical book; it is collection of number of interviews with multiple IT Pros diving in the topic of DevOps and sharing their knowledge and views where the technology is going.
Farcic had conversations with people in consulting companies, in tech companies like Docker and RedHat, and other people doing interesting things. As such, they collectively provided a comprehensive look at the state of IT development and deployment.
Fun and engaging.
This is my top 3 list, that I picked out from my bookshelf in 2020.