Book Overflow

By Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups

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In a world of short-form content, it's important to engage with long-form ideas. Book Overflow is a podcast created for software engineers, by software engineers to discuss the best technical books in the world. Join co-hosts Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups each week as they discuss a new technical book! New episodes every Monday!

Episode Date
The #1 Book for Tech Entrepreneurs! - Build by Tony Fadell
May 04, 2026
Never use this pattern with microservices! - Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Apr 27, 2026
Everything is a Trade-Off - Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Apr 20, 2026
Revenge of the Microservices! - Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Apr 06, 2026
Is Strategy Worth It? - Crafting Engineering Strategy by Will Larson
Mar 30, 2026
Cope is Not a Strategy - Crafting Engineering Strategy by Will Larson
Mar 23, 2026
How Engineering Leaders Approach Strategy - Crafting Engineering Strategy by Will Larson
Mar 16, 2026
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Mar 09, 2026
Carl Brown Discusses All Things AI
Mar 05, 2026
The Shifting Role of Software Engineering - Frictionless by Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda
Mar 02, 2026
DevEx in the Age of AI - Frictionless by Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda
Feb 23, 2026
When Machines Can Code - Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson + Coding Machines by Lawrence Kesteloot
Feb 16, 2026
The Ethics of Data-Intensive Applications - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman
Feb 09, 2026
Time is an Illusion - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman
Feb 02, 2026
Austen McDonald Reflects on Mastering Behavioral Interviews
Jan 30, 2026
Replication, Partitioning, & Transactions - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman
Jan 26, 2026
Reliability, Scalability, and Maintainability - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman
Jan 19, 2026
Mastering Behavioral Interviews by Austen McDonald
Jan 12, 2026
March Madness in December! Comparing Every Book We've Ever Read!
Dec 15, 2025
Will Larson Reflects on Staff Engineer
Dec 08, 2025
Accountability Check (2025)
Dec 01, 2025
Steve Flanders Reflects on Mastering OpenTelemetry
Nov 24, 2025
Programming Parables to Astound your Coworkers - The Tao of Programming by Geoffrey James
Nov 17, 2025
Dan Heath Reflects on Made To Stick
Nov 12, 2025
Embracing AI as a senior engineer - Beyond Vibe Coding by Addy Osmani
Nov 10, 2025
How do experienced engineers use AI? - Beyond Vibe Coding by Addy Osmani
Nov 03, 2025
Patrick Debois Reflects on The DevOps Handbook
Oct 30, 2025
React is a Beautiful Mess - Advanced React by Nadia Makarevich
Oct 28, 2025
The Patterns of React - Advanced React by Nadia Makarevich
Oct 20, 2025
OTel at Scale - Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observatibilty by Steve Flanders
Oct 20, 2025
OTel Fundamentals - Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observatibilty by Steve Flanders
Sep 29, 2025
Building a Culture of Candor - Radical Candor by Kim Scott
Sep 22, 2025
Your Boss Has Read This Book - Radical Candor by Kim Scott
Sep 15, 2025
The Weirdest Book We've Read? - Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
Sep 08, 2025
Staff-Level Impact - Staff Engineer by Will Larson
Sep 01, 2025
Jason Fried Reflects on ReWork
Aug 21, 2025
Carter's Favorite Book? - Made To Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Aug 18, 2025
What makes ideas "sticky?" - Made To Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Aug 11, 2025
Not For Us! - 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz, Katrina Owen, & TJ Stankus
Aug 04, 2025
How Linus Torvalds Created Linux - Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond
Jul 28, 2025
Shifting Left on Security - The DevOps Handbook
Jul 21, 2025
Kirill Bobrov Reflects on Grokking Concurrency
Jul 18, 2025
Deployment Strategies for Success - The DevOps Handbook
Jul 14, 2025
Manuel Pais Reflects on Team Topologies
Jul 10, 2025
Is DevOps a Silver Bullet? - The DevOps Handbook
Jul 07, 2025
One Year of Book Overflow!
Jun 30, 2025
Developing a Mental Model for AI - Thinking Like a Large Language Model by Mukund Sundararajan
Jun 23, 2025
Chasing Taillights - In The Plex by Steven Levy
Jun 16, 2025
How Google Created the Cloud - In The Plex by Steven Levy
Jun 09, 2025
The Origins of Google - In The Plex by Steven Levy
Jun 02, 2025
Making a Dent in the Universe - ReWork by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
May 26, 2025
Coordination in Distributed Systems - Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov
May 20, 2025
Basics of Concurrency - Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov
May 05, 2025
Graduate Algorithms and Georgia Tech OMSCS
Apr 28, 2025
High-Leverage Thinking for Engineers - Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
Apr 21, 2025
Balancing Features and Systems Improvements - The Good News Factory by Kent Beck
Apr 07, 2025
John Ousterhout and Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin Discuss Their Software Philosophies
Mar 31, 2025
Is Worse Better? - Worse is Better by Richard P. Gabriel
Mar 24, 2025
Gergely Orosz Reflects on The Software Engineer's Guidebook
Mar 20, 2025
More on System Design Interviews - System Design Interview by Alex Xu
Mar 17, 2025
Carson Gross (Creator of HTMX) Reflects on Hypermedia Systems
Mar 04, 2025
Acing the System Design Interview - System Design Interview by Alex Xu
Mar 03, 2025
Evolving Your Software Teams - Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais
Feb 23, 2025
Building Effective Teams - Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais
Feb 17, 2025
Is HTMX Right For You? - Hypermedia Systems by Gross, Stepinski, & Akşimşek
Feb 10, 2025
Make Web 1.0 Great Again! - Hypermedia Systems by Gross, Stepinski, & Akşimşek
Jan 27, 2025
Kent Beck Reflects on Tidy First?
Jan 23, 2025
Project Leadership & Understanding the Business - The Software Engineer's Guidebook by Gergely Orosz
Jan 20, 2025
Owning Your Career - The Software Engineer's Guidebook by Gergely Orosz
Jan 13, 2025
Guess That Quote! - Book Overflow 2024
Dec 16, 2024
Our Top Five Books! - Book Overflow 2024
Dec 09, 2024
Accountability Retrospective - Book Overflow 2024
Dec 02, 2024
Agile, Good or Bad? - The Agile Manifesto
Nov 25, 2024
Web App Fundamentals - The Twelve-Factor App
Nov 18, 2024
Brian Kernighan Reflects on Unix: A History and a Memoir
Nov 11, 2024
Keeping Your Codebase Clean - Tidy First? by Kent Beck
Nov 04, 2024
Pramod Sadalage Reflects on Building Evolutionary Architectures
Oct 28, 2024
The Legacy of Unix - Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
Oct 21, 2024
New Horizons & Executive Politicking - The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
Oct 14, 2024
Rebecca Parsons Reflects on Building Evolutionary Architectures
Oct 10, 2024
You Build It, You Run It - The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
Oct 08, 2024
Martin Fowler Reflects on Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Oct 03, 2024
Local Development & Maddening Bureaucracy - The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
Sep 30, 2024
Work at a Natural Pace & Obsess Over Quality - Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
Sep 23, 2024
Neal Ford Reflects on "Building Evolutionary Architectures"
Sep 19, 2024
Delivering High Value Work & Doing Fewer Things - Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
Sep 16, 2024
Adrienne Braganza Reflects on "Looks Good To Me"
Sep 12, 2024
"Looks Good To Me" by Adrienne Braganza (Part 2)
Sep 09, 2024
Stephen Wolfram Reflects on What Is ChatGPT Doing... And Why Does It Work?
Sep 05, 2024
"Looks Good To Me" by Adrienne Braganza (Part 1)
Sep 02, 2024
Carl Brown (Internet of Bugs) Shares His Favorite Books
Aug 29, 2024
"Building Evolutionary Architectures" by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, and Pramod Sadalage (Part 2)
Aug 26, 2024
Host of Syntax Podcast Scott Tolinski Shares His Favorite Books
Aug 22, 2024
"Building Evolutionary Architectures" by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, and Pramod Sadalage (Part 1)
Aug 19, 2024
Apple Design Award Winner Devin Davies Shares His Learning Strategies
Aug 15, 2024
"Recoding America" by Jennifer Pahlka
Aug 12, 2024
Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin Reflects on "Clean Coder"
Aug 08, 2024
"Web Scalability for Startup Engineers" by Artur Ejsmont (Part 2)
Aug 05, 2024
Michael Feathers Reflects on "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"
Aug 01, 2024
"Web Scalability for Startup Engineers" by Artur Ejsmont (Part 1)
Jul 29, 2024
John Ousterhout Reflects on "A Philosophy of Software Design"
Jul 24, 2024
"Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers (Part 2)
Jul 22, 2024
Neal Ford Reflects on "Fundamentals of Software Architecture"
Jul 17, 2024
"Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers (Part 1)
Jul 15, 2024
Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming"
Jul 10, 2024
"Clean Coder" by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin
Jul 08, 2024
Mark Richards Reflects on "Fundamentals of Software Architecture"
Jul 03, 2024
"Fundamentals of Software Architecture" by Mark Richards and Neal Ford (Part 2)
Jul 01, 2024
"Fundamentals of Software Architecture" by Mark Richards and Neal Ford (Part 1)
Jun 24, 2024
"What Is ChatGPT Doing... And Why Does It Work?" by Stephen Wolfram
Jun 17, 2024
"Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" by Martin Fowler
Jun 12, 2024
"A Philosophy of Software Design" by John Ousterhout
Jun 12, 2024
"The Practice of Programming" by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike
Jun 12, 2024