▸ Library
What I read & recommend.
Books, tools, and resources I recommend for backend engineering, AI, and shipping production software — curated, not exhaustive.
Books
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications ↗
Martin Kleppmann
The reference for how real systems store, move, and break data. Re-read it.
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A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout
Deep modules, shallow interfaces. Changed how I scope abstractions.
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Clean Architecture
Robert C. Martin
Take the boundaries, leave the dogma. Still the clearest layering primer.
Docs worth reading cover-to-cover
Related
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▸ Page
/uses/
The stack I actually ship on — what these recommendations turned into in practice.
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▸ Series
/blog/series/rag-in-production/
The pgvector and RAG material above, applied end to end.
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▸ Page
/tools/
23 free browser-only tools built while working through this stuff.
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▸ Page
/blog/
71 posts on Laravel, AI engineering, Shopify Plus, DevOps and architecture.