Efficient Developer

After 20 years in the IT industry, I thought I already knew everything. When I got my hands on this book, I was pleasantly surprised. I have been working as a DevOps for many years and as a python developer for the last few years, but in the book, I found a lot of good advice on how to improve my knowledge in all directions.

Petr wrote a practical and actionable book packed with great examples. The topics are well organized and I've really learned something new in each one. I highly recommend the book to both beginners and people with many years of experience.
- Tomas Pytel, Python Engineer & DevOps @ IBM, PyConSK organizer and Speaker, The PSF Member.

About the book

Software development is not just programming.

This book will give you the principles, tools and practices to do software development well. It contains distilled knowledge on important software development topics with the focus on web application development in a team setting.

Adopt a senior-level mindset and get a solid foundation to become a development lead!

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8 Chapters

Specifications

Capturing requirements
Using a backlog to organize requirements
Creating product and technical specifications
Bug management

Development Environment

Running software systems for development
Development tools
The best features of code editors and IDEs
Interactive computing for fast prototyping

Code Management

Version control systems
Working with Git
Branching models and code integration strategies
Continuous integration and deployment
Quality checks and analyzing codebases

Debugging, Logging, Profiling

Debugging principles and tools
Logging
Profiling applications
Monitoring

Development Processes

Agile software development
Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP)
Kanban
Shape Up
Considerations for custom processes

Documentation

Personal and team documentation
Development documentation
Documenting architecture
Creating external documentation and documentation sites

Testing

Testing mindset
Test categorization
Test cases and test plans
Automated testing and test automation tools
Performance testing

Software Estimation

Estimation principles
Estimating individual tasks
Estimating size, effort, and schedule for a bulk of work
Group estimation
Working with worst and best case estimates
Monte Carlo Simulation

About the author

Petr Stribny

I have been working as a development lead, software developer and quality engineer. I obtained a Master's degree in computer science from Masaryk university, but I have been programming since I was 14 (20 years now!).

I wanted to write a book that fills a knowledge gap that many people who start working as software developers have, because they have been focused just on the programming itself.

If this is your first time in the industry as a professional or you have been at it for a year or two, this book will help you to understand the important fundamentals a little bit better. And if not? Ask for a refund.

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