Refactoring to Patterns

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1. _doctor_loveAug 2026
   An unsung hero for me is Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky. That one really shows how to tie it all together in my opinion.
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2. equinumerousJul 2026
   Great book recommendations (I have read parts of the Google SRE book and Designing Data Intensive Applications)! I will also add a couple gems that I don't see often-cited: Simple Object-Oriented Design by Mauricio Aniche and Secure by Design by Dan Bergh Johnsson, Daniel Deogun, and Daniel Sawano. Both have a lot to offer in terms of software design and maintaining complexity. I also liked Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky.
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3. hoerzuDec 2024
   Here is a list so far: - Designing data intensive applications

   - Just Enough Software Architecture

   - Domain Driven Design - Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Eric Evans) I recommend this one more than Vaughn Vernon's DDD.

   - Clean Architecture (Robert Martin)

   - Fundamentals of Software Architecture: an Engineering Approach

   - Design Patterns (Gamma et al)

   - Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

   - Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

   - Refactoring to Patterns

   - Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

   -Head First Design Patterns Building Extensible and Maintainable Object Oriented Software and I

   - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odxOPxYJdjg

   - "Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure"

   - Software Architecture in Practice

   - Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond

   - Head first: Software Architecture

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4. belfalasJan 2023
   Many more beyond this but these are my for sures.

   People / Soft Skills:

   * How to win friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

   * Secrets of Consulting - Gerald Weinberg

   * Peopleware - Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister

   * Nurtured by Love - Shinici Suzuki

   * Turn the Ship Around! - David Marquet

   * Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss

   http://dhemery.com/articles/resistance_as_a_resource/

   http://dhemery.com/articles/managing_yourself_through_change...

   Macro Skills:

   * Toyota Production System - Taiichii Ohno

   * Workplace Management - Taiichii Ohno

   * Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows

   * Fifth Discipline - Peter Senge

   Agile:

   * Extreme Programming, Explained (2nd ed.) - Kent Beck (the annotated bibliography is a goldmine)

   * Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick

   Programming:

   * Implementation Patterns - Kent Beck

   * Test-Driven Development, By Example - Kent Beck

   * Refactoring (both editions) - Martin Fowler

   * Refactoring to Patterns - Joshua Kerievsky

   * Practical Object Oriented Design - Sandi Metz

   * Functional Programming in Scala - Chiusano & Bjarnason

   * Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided By Tests - Freeman & Pryce ("The Goose Book")

   * Modern Java in Action - Raoul-Gabriel Urma

   * Java Concurrency in Practice - Brian Goetz

   * Grokking Algorithms - Aditya Y. Bhargava

   Architecture:

   * Righting Software - Juval Lowy

   * Release It! - Michael Nygard

   * Site Reliability Engineering - Beyer, et al. ("The SRE Book”)

   * Domain Driven Design - Eric Evans

   * Introduction to Permaculture - Bill Mollison and Mia Slay

   * Fun with a Pencil - Andrew Loomis

   Design:

   * All books by Edward Tufte, especially “The visual display of quantitative information”

   * The Elements of Typographic Style - Robert Bringhurst

   * Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud

   * Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman

   * Notes on the Synthesis of Form - Christopher Alexander

   * The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander

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5. cratermoonDec 2022
   Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design

   Refactoring to Patterns

   The Pragmatic Programmer

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6. cratermoonDec 2022
   The Pragmatic Programmer (Hunt & Thomas) is the most all-around applicable and readable over a break. Of the rest, I'd recommend Refactoring (Fowler). Not on your list, but a good follow-on to Refactoring is Refactoring to Patterns (Joshua Kerievsky)
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