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Eric Normand
About this listen
Grokking Simplicity is a friendly, practical guide that will change the way you approach software design and development.
Summary:
Distributed across servers, difficult to test, and resistant to modification - modern software is complex. Grokking Simplicity is a friendly, practical guide that will change the way you approach software design and development. It introduces a unique approach to functional programming that explains why certain features of software are prone to complexity, and teaches you the functional techniques you can use to simplify these systems so that they’re easier to test and debug.
About the technology:
Developers rightly fear the unintended complexity that infects most code. This audiobook shows you how to write software that keeps complexity close to its inherent minimum. As you write software you should distinguish between code that alters your system’s state, and code that does not. Once you learn to make that distinction, you can refactor much of your state-altering “actions” into stateless “calculations”. Your software will be simpler.
About the audiobook:
The audiobook also teaches you to solve the complex timing bugs that inevitably creep into asynchronous and multithreaded code. In advanced sections of the audiobook you learn how composable abstractions help avoid repeating code and open up new levels of expressivity.
What's inside:
- Patterns for simpler code
- Powerful time modeling approaches to simplify asynchronous code
- How higher-order functions can make code reusable and composable
About the audience:
For intermediate and advanced developers building complex software. Exercises, illustrations, self-assessments, and hands-on examples lock in each new idea.
About the author:
Eric Normand is an expert software developer who has been an influential teacher of functional programming since 2007.
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I can't believe this exists as an audiobook.
- By Michael Marcin on 12-18-23
By: Alex Petrov
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Fundamentals of Software Architecture
- An Engineering Approach
- By: Mark Richards, Neal Ford
- Narrated by: Benjamin Lange
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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This book provides the first comprehensive overview of software architecture’s many aspects. Aspiring and existing architects alike will examine architectural characteristics, architectural patterns, component determination, diagramming and presenting architecture, evolutionary architecture, and many other topics. Mark Richards and Neal Ford—hands-on practitioners who have taught software architecture classes professionally for years—focus on architecture principles that apply across all technology stacks.
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Helpful but business-centric
- By A.N. on 03-25-21
By: Mark Richards, and others
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Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns
- Effective Testing Styles, Patterns, and Reliable Automation for Unit Testing, Mocking, and Integration Testing with Examples in C#
- By: Vladimir Khorikov
- Narrated by: Nate Colitto
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Unit Testing Principles, Patterns and Practices shows you how to refine your existing unit tests by implementing modern best practices. You’ll learn to spot which tests are performing, which need refactoring, and which need to be deleted entirely! Upgrade your testing suite with new testing styles, good patterns, and reliable automated testing.
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Excellent book
- By Amazon Customer on 03-31-25
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Algorithms to Live By
- The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- By: Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
- Narrated by: Brian Christian
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.
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Great listen, just don't expect tips!
- By Adam Hosman on 08-07-17
By: Brian Christian, and others
What listeners say about Grokking Simplicity: Taming Complex Software with Functional Thinking
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- Addison
- 04-09-24
good, hard to follow code narrator
good, hard to follow code sections though and no PDF on mobile app. and he reads the underscores in method names out loud🤮
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- hayrichu
- 05-10-22
It's not ready for audiobook
it's well explained and lot of concepts are well explained, but to much reference to a code that you can't see make sometimes difficult to understand
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- Llewellyn J Falco
- 04-12-23
No code sample in audio but story always refers to them
In code sample 22B we see that…..
this boom has a lot of code samples, but they aren’t in the audio book.
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- Daniel Underwood
- 07-22-23
Good book but not for audio format
Pretty good book on the techniques of functional programming, but none of the code examples are available in the audio format which makes half of the content useless. This should have come with a warning before purchase. They could at least provide a supplementary download like most other technical audiobooks.
Go for the physical or electronic version, not the audiobook!
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