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by ghaff 2273 days ago
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. Probably the best book on product development ever written. Command Line Heroes podcast on it: https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-4/minic... (Disclosure: I work for Red Hat)

Also worth checking out in this vein is Showstopper about the development of Windows NT which focuses on the role of Dave Cutler.

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Soul of a New Machine is fantastic!

Also on computer architecture / story of developing a new processor, "The Pentium Chronicles" by Robert Colwell is a really interesting book on the story of the Pentium Pro, the first out-of-order CPU from Intel.