By Gergely Orosz, the author of The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter and Building Mobile Apps at Scale
Navigating senior, tech lead, staff and principal positions at tech companies and startups. An Amazon #1 Best Seller. New: the hardcover is out! As is the audibook. Now available in 6 languages.
Genre: Animated Action/Adventure Runtime: Approx. 90 minutes Availability: Full HD Fixed Print (Stable Aspect Ratio & High Bitrate) Introduction: Beyond Dholakpur For over a decade, India’s beloved boy hero, Chhota Bheem, has entertained young audiences with his superhuman strength and loyalty. While most adventures keep him tethered to his home village of Dholakpur, Chhota Bheem and The Throne of Bali offers a refreshing cultural detour. This feature-length film transports Bheem and his friends to the lush, mystical island of Bali—a setting rich with new mythology, royal drama, and unfamiliar adversaries.
Now available in a , the vibrant colors of Balinese temples, the intricate animation of magical artifacts, and the fluid motion of action sequences are finally presented without compression artifacts or aspect ratio errors, offering a true cinematic experience for home viewing. Plot Overview: A Kingdom Without a King The story kicks off with a distress call reaching King Indravarma of Dholakpur. The prosperous kingdom of Bali is in turmoil. Its young prince, Arjuna , is the rightful heir to the legendary "Throne of Bali"—an ancient seat of power imbued with mystical protection. However, the scheming minister Rangda has usurped control, using dark magic to hide the throne and imprison the royal family.
Bheem, Chutki, Raju, Jaggu, and Kalia (reluctantly) journey across the sea to Bali. Unlike their typical village bullies (like Dholakpur’s Kirmada), Rangda is a cunning, magically adept antagonist who uses illusions, hypnotic gamelan music, and shadow puppets (Wayang) to disorient the heroes.
The book is separated into six standalone parts, each part covering several chapters:
Parts 1 and 6 apply to all engineering levels: from entry-level software developers to principal or above engineers. Parts 2, 3, 4 and 5 cover increasingly senior engineering levels. These four parts group topics in chapters – such as ones on software engineering, collaboration, getting things done, and so on.
This book is more of a reference book that you can refer back to, as you grow in your career. I suggest skimming over the career levels and chapters that you are familiar with, and focus reading on topics you struggle with, or career levels where you are aiming to get to. Keep in mind that expectations can vary greatly between companies.
In this book, I’ve aimed to align the topics and leveling definitions closer to what is typical at Big Tech and scaleups: but you might find some of the topics relevant for lower career levels in later chapters. For example, we cover logging, montiroing and oncall in Part 5: “Reliable software systems” in-depth: but it’s useful – and oftentimes necessary! – to know about these practices below the staff engineer levels.
The Software Engineer's Guidebook is available in multiple languages:
You should now be able to ask your local book shops to order the book for you via Ingram Spark Print-on-demand - using the ISBN code 9789083381824. I'm also working on making the paperback more accessible in additional regions, including translated versions. Please share details here if you're unable to get the book in your country and I'll aim to remedy the situation.
I'd like to think so! The book can help you get ideas on how to help software engineers on your team grow. And if you are a hands-on engineering manager (which I hope you might be!) then you can apply the topics yourself! I wrote more about staying hands-on as an engineering manager or lead in The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter.
I've gotten this variation of a question from Data Engineers, ML Engineers, designers and SREs. See the more detailed table of contents and the "Look inside" sample to get a better idea of the contents of the book. I have written this book with software engineers as the target group, and the bulk of the book applies for them. Part 1 is more generally applicable career advice: but that's still smaller subset of the book.