I actually find the quality of programming books to have starkly increased in the last decade. I find a lot of manning's and o'reilly's release to have a pretty

I actually find the quality of programming books to have starkly increased in the last decade. I find a lot of manning's and o'reilly's release to have a pretty long shelf-life. For example, I really enjoyed and often go back to: - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-event-driven-microservices/9781492057888/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-event-driven-m... - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensive-applications/9781491903063/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv... - https://www.manning.com/books/100-go-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them https://www.manning.com/books/100-go-mistakes-and-how-to-avo... - https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Performance-Brendan-Gregg/dp/0136820158 https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Performance-Brendan-Gregg/dp/... And more recently: - https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-large-language-model-from-scratch https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-large-language-model-f... - https://www.manning.com/books/the-creative-programmer https://www.manning.com/books/the-creative-programmer - https://www.manning.com/books/the-programmers-brain https://www.manning.com/books/the-programmers-brain - https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Software-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing/dp/0137589735 https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Software-Addison-Wesley... I also find books about specific technologies that indeed run the risk of being deprecated after a few years to be useful too - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/networking-and-kubernetes/9781492081647/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/networking-and-kubernet... - https://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html https://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html Furthermore, nothing keeps you from reading books about topics peripheral to computer science, say to keep up with the general vibes: - https://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Machine-Learning-Introduction-Computation/dp/0262046822 https://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Machine-Learning-Introd... - https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Foundations-Christopher-Bishop/dp/3031454677 https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Foundations-Christopher... - https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Abstraction-Exploration-Category-Theory/dp/1108477224 https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Abstraction-Exploration-Category-... I find that all of these contribute significantly to my growth as an engineer.