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Inside the Minds: Leading Chief Technology Officers: CTOs from GE, Novell, Boeing, BMC, BEA, Peoplesoft & More on the Future of Technology

Aspatore Books Staff, InsideTheMinds.com, Richard J. Schroth · 2 HN comments
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Inside the Minds: Leading CTOs is the most authoritative book ever assembled on technology, written by the CTOs from GE, Boeing, Novel, Perot Systems, BMC Software, McAfee.com, Capital Thinking, BEA, Staples, PeopleSoft, Covisint, Finali, eLabor, and Encoda Systems. These industry visionaries share their knowledge on developing, implementing and capitalizing on the best technologies in the world. Also examined are developing proprietary technology, keeping technology skills sharp, interacting with vendors, explaining technology to the rest of your organization/co-workers and using technology to increase the bottom line. An unprecedented look inside the minds of some of the most well known CTOs makes for exciting and highly interesting reading for developers, programmers, techies, CTOs, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in the future of technology and how to take advantage of it on a personal or professional level.
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1. Building Evolutionary Architectures - A great book for those looking to build an IT department that can meet the business needs of today and create an organizational mindset that allows you to still be nimble and evolve to meet future demands.

https://www.amazon.com/Building-Evolutionary-Architectures-S...

2. Building Microservices - A great book by Sam Newman which Building Evolutionary Architectures is effectively written upon IMHO. This book is really more technical and gets into the weeds of building out systems using microservices and it also touches based on CI/CD.

https://www.amazon.com/Building-Microservices-Designing-Fine...

3. Inside the Minds - Although this book is old and talks about XML as an emerging technology, it's exceptional in showing you how various CTOs think and define their roles in different companies. It really drives home the importance of having IT support business vs. just building out technical solutions.

Note: Buy this book used and save yourself a lot of money. I got it for $2.58.

https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Minds-Technology-Officers-Peop...

4. Release It! - A very good book that talks about important concepts in building systems that can be released often. It talks about things like Bulkheads, and circuit breakers; also mentioned in Sam Newmans book,. If you're company doesn't have CI/CD in place and a proper release model, then you should certainly read this book.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1680502395

I have more books, but I don't want to flood this post.

alkhatib
I'd be interested in getting more recommendations, maybe you can have it somewhere else and link it here? A blog/gist/Google Doc?

Thanks.

sp527
Seconding this. You seem to have great taste in technical reading material :)
mrburton
Sure, I can compile a list of books. I'll do that later this week. You can email me at my username + gmail. I'll also post it on HN.
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