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.
Bloodsport has had a significant impact on the martial arts film genre. The movie’s success can be attributed to its well-choreographed fight scenes, Jean-Claude Van Damme’s charismatic performance, and its influence on future action films.
Bloodsport is set in the fictional Kumite, a martial arts tournament held every five years in Hong Kong. The tournament is a brutal and deadly competition where fighters from around the world compete to the death. The main character, Frank Dux (played by Jean-Claude Van Damme), is a martial artist who enters the tournament to avenge his friend and to prove his skills.
Bloodsport is a 1988 martial arts action film directed by Newt Arnold and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. The movie has become a cult classic among action film enthusiasts, and its popularity endures to this day. For fans who prefer to watch movies in Hindi, the good news is that Bloodsport is available in Hindi dubbed.
Bloodsport Hindi dubbed movie is a classic action film that is worth watching for fans of the genre. With its impressive martial arts sequences, engaging storyline, and Jean-Claude Van Damme’s iconic performance, Bloodsport is an entertaining watch. Whether you’re a fan of Hindi dubbed movies or just looking for a classic action film, Bloodsport is a great choice.
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.