Please find below the information about the Thoughtworks Anthology, Volume 2. You can find this data at the book page on the Pragmatic Bookshelf website.
The ThoughtWorks Anthology, Volume 2 – book cover
About this Book
This new collection of essays from the experts at ThoughtWorks offers practical insight and advice on a range of challenges faced daily by software developers and IT professionals. It covers a broad spectrum of software development topics, from tuning agile methodologies to hard-core language geekery. This anthology captures the wide-ranging intellect and diversity of ThoughtWorks, reflected through practical and timely topics.
In it, you’ll find from-the-trenches advice on topics such as continuous integration, testing, and improving the software delivery process. See how people use functional programming techniques in object-oriented languages, modern Java web applications, and deal with current problems in JavaScript development. Scan an overview of the most interesting programming languages today and the current state of information visualization. And it’s all field-tested insight, because it comes from the practical perspective of ThoughtWorks experts.
Each essay focuses on extending your skills and enlarging your toolkit. And each is drawn from practical experience gained in the field.
You’ll benefit from this book if you are involved in developing, deploying, or testing software, either as a manager or developer.
Table of Contents:
- Languages
- Testing
- Extreme Performance Testing
- Take Your JavaScript for a Test Drive
- Building Better Acceptance Tests
- Issues in Software Development
- Modern Java Web Applications
- Taming the Integration Problem
- Feature Toggles in Practice
- Driving Innovation into Delivery
- Data Visualization
- A Thousand Words
About the Author:
ThoughtWorks is a well-known global consulting firm. This collection of essays, selected by well-known ThoughtWorkers such as Neal Ford, Martin Fowler, Ola Bini, and Rebecca Parsons, brings together contributions from well-known authors along with others you may not know yet. The ThoughtWorks Anthology gives burgeoning authors a voice, and gives the outside world a glimpse of the water cooler conversation at ThoughtWorks.
Here is the complete author list:
- Ola Bini
- Farooq Ali
- James Bull
- Brian Blignaut
- Martin Fowler
- Neal Ford
- Alistair Jones
- Luca Grulla
- Patrick Kua
- Aman King
- Julio Maia
- Marc McNeill
- Sam Newman
- Mark Needham
- Cosmin Stejerean
- Rebecca Parsons
