Software Engineering

Filtering criteria - “How useful is this for my SaaS?”

Building Microservices - Breadth of topics, standard practices and good for finding unknown unknowns

Designing Data Intensive Applications - Popular and respected online, but only useful for huge scale so it’s not immediately useful

System Design Interview I and II Alex Xu - Good breadth and case studies. Have no interest in interviewing

Business

The $100 Startup - Because I don’t have a lot of money to spend on the SaaS

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Huge respect for the guy, want to know more about him

The Lean Startup - I’m a huge believer of simplicity at all costs, this book sounds like that judging by the name

Buy Then Build - Planning to do this instead of starting fresh

Finance

FAQ in Quant Interviews - Not interviewing but as a way to learn what’s important

Trading and Exchanges - Huge breadth, good for finding unknown unknowns

Options Volatility and Pricing - Popular and respected online, tons of recommendations

Advances in Financial Machine Learning - Polishing my ML background and seeing how it’s applied to finance

Options, Futures and Other Derivatives - Huge breadth

Dynamic Hedging - Lots of online recommendations, have no idea what’s in the book