Books I've actually re-read

Recommended reading

Hands-on guides for the services I write about most.

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All AWS & Cloud System Design Software Engineering Career

AWS Cookbook

John Culkin & Mike Zazon

Recipe-driven walkthrough of the workflows you actually hit in production — IAM cross-account, VPC peering, S3 replication, the lot. Great as a working reference, not a sit-down read.

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Serverless Architectures on AWS, 2nd Edition

Peter Sbarski

The book that made Lambda click for me. Walks through event-driven patterns end to end — API Gateway, DynamoDB streams, Step Functions — without the marketing fluff.

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