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Book Overflow

Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups

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!

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137 episodes

  1. The frontier models are funding the doomer movement? - AI Engineering by Chip Huyen 1:13:32
  2. They're not building a machine god - AI Engineering by Chip Huyen 1:08:09
  3. If you rate your job all fives, you're lying - The Staff Engineer's Path by Tanya Reilly 1:05:36
  4. Just doing good work won't save your career - The Staff Engineer's Path by Tanya Reilly 1:03:12
  5. "Forward Deployed Engineer" is just cargo-culting Palantir - Team Topologies: 2nd Edition 57:55
  6. We're being lied to about what AI can do - with Carl Brown 1:39:24
  7. Uncle Bob says AI is already conscious - We Programmers by Robert C. Martin 1:03:23
  8. Should you stop writing tests after 30 years? - The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas & Andrew Hunt 1:05:01
  9. Why programmers matter more than ever - The Pragmatic Programmer by Thomas & Hunt 1:08:08
  10. I'm Not on the DRY Train - The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andy Hunt 1:06:07
  11. Don't Follow Your Passion - So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport 1:14:02
  12. Why programmers will never be replaced - We Programmers by Uncle Bob 1:08:07
  13. Why has nothing ever replaced programmers? - We Programmers by Robert C. Martin 1:14:48
  14. What actually makes you a programmer? - We Programmers by Robert C. Martin 1:11:20
  15. Did AI just give us infinite innovation tokens? - Choose Boring Technology by Dan McKinley 58:18
  16. Pramod Sadalage Reflects on Software Architecture: The Hard Parts 1:01:12
  17. Our insights from every book we've ever read - Two Years of Book Overflow! 1:22:54
  18. The comments roasted us, and they were right - Learning Domain-Driven Design by Vlad Khononov 1:05:44
  19. Mark Richards and Neal Ford Reflect on Software Architecture: The Hard Parts 1:04:49
  20. This pattern is crazy, or I'm an idiot - Learning Domain-Driven Design by Vlad Khononov 1:11:42
  21. Understanding Business Domains - Learning Domain-Driven Design by Vlad Khononov 1:08:50
  22. Has AI changed everything about software development? - The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks 1:23:48
  23. Lawrence Kesteloot Reflects on Coding Machines 1:06:24
  24. Google's Rough Acquisition of Nest - Build by Tony Fadell 1:07:57
  25. The #1 Book for Tech Entrepreneurs! - Build by Tony Fadell 1:15:36
  26. Never use this pattern with microservices! - Software Architecture: The Hard Parts 1:19:42
  27. Everything is a Trade-Off - Software Architecture: The Hard Parts 1:10:40
  28. Revenge of the Microservices! - Software Architecture: The Hard Parts 1:04:03
  29. Is Strategy Worth It? - Crafting Engineering Strategy by Will Larson 1:07:43
  30. Cope is Not a Strategy - Crafting Engineering Strategy by Will Larson 1:16:48
  31. How Engineering Leaders Approach Strategy - Crafting Engineering Strategy by Will Larson 1:11:24
  32. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 1:02:00
  33. Carl Brown Discusses All Things AI 1:47:02
  34. The Shifting Role of Software Engineering - Frictionless by Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda 1:03:54
  35. DevEx in the Age of AI - Frictionless by Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda 1:11:27
  36. When Machines Can Code - Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson + Coding Machines by Lawrence Kesteloot 1:15:41
  37. The Ethics of Data-Intensive Applications - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman 1:25:45
  38. Time is an Illusion - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman 1:22:00
  39. Austen McDonald Reflects on Mastering Behavioral Interviews 1:05:36
  40. Replication, Partitioning, & Transactions - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman 1:18:31
  41. Reliability, Scalability, and Maintainability - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman 1:20:23
  42. Mastering Behavioral Interviews by Austen McDonald 1:06:03
  43. March Madness in December! Comparing Every Book We've Ever Read! 1:24:48
  44. Will Larson Reflects on Staff Engineer 1:03:15
  45. Accountability Check (2025) 1:13:53
  46. Steve Flanders Reflects on Mastering OpenTelemetry 56:07
  47. Programming Parables to Astound your Coworkers - The Tao of Programming by Geoffrey James 1:05:28
  48. Dan Heath Reflects on Made To Stick 1:06:31
  49. Embracing AI as a senior engineer - Beyond Vibe Coding by Addy Osmani 1:03:42
  50. How do experienced engineers use AI? - Beyond Vibe Coding by Addy Osmani 1:10:56