[patricklouys]

Depends, what kind of application are you trying to build? What programming language?

I wrote my book Professional PHP [0] as a guide like that, but of course it's heavily skewed towards building a PHP webapp (even though most of it is also applicable to other OOP languages).

But to be honest, I wouldn't try to narrow it down to a single book. Start with the classics like clean code, code complete 2, pragmatic programmer and then work yourself towards effective java, implementing domain driven design etc. I have a list of my recommendations published here [1].

[0] https://patricklouys.com/professional-php/

[1] https://patricklouys.com/resources/

[ajankovic]

I was more thinking about language agnostic approaches for big enterprise projects.