The Coder Cafe

you own this product
66 timeless concepts for software engineers
  • MEAP began December 2025
  • Last updated December 2025
  • Publication in Spring 2026 (estimated)
  • ISBN 9781633434066
  • 275 pages (estimated)
  • printed in black & white

pro $24.99 per month

  • access to all Manning books, MEAPs, liveVideos, liveProjects, and audiobooks!
  • choose one free eBook per month to keep
  • exclusive 50% discount on all purchases
  • renews monthly, pause or cancel renewal anytime

lite $19.99 per month

  • access to all Manning books, including MEAPs!

team

5, 10 or 20 seats+ for your team - learn more


Look inside
Great software developers—even the proverbial greybeards—get a little better every day by adding knowledge and skills continuously. This new book invites you to share a cup of coffee with senior Google engineer Teiva Harsanyi as he shows you how to make your code more readable, use unit tests as documentation, reduce latency, navigate complex systems, and more.

The Coder Cafe introduces 66 vital software engineering concepts that will upgrade your day-to-day practice, regardless of your skill level. You’ll find practical tutorials—each five pages or less—on everything from foundational data structures to distributed architecture. These timeless concepts are the perfect way to turn your coffee break into a high-impact career boost.

what's inside

  • Generate property-based tests to expose hidden edge cases automatically
  • Explore the CAP and PACELC theorems to balance consistency and availability trade-offs
  • Design graceful-degradation strategies to keep systems usable under failure
  • Leverage Bloom filters to perform fast, memory-efficient membership checks
  • Cultivate lateral thinking to uncover unconventional solutions

about the reader

For serious and curious software engineers.

about the author

Teiva Harsanyi is a senior software engineer at Google. Previously, he has worked in various domains including safety-critical industries like air traffic management. He is the author of 100 Go Mistakes and How To Avoid Them.
choose your plan

team

monthly
annual
$49.99
$399.99
only $33.33 per month
  • five seats for your team
  • access to all Manning books, MEAPs, liveVideos, liveProjects, and audiobooks!
  • choose another free product every time you renew
  • choose twelve free products per year
  • exclusive 50% discount on all purchases
  • renews monthly, pause or cancel renewal anytime
  • renews annually, pause or cancel renewal anytime
  • The Coder Cafe ebook for free
choose your plan

team

monthly
annual
$49.99
$399.99
only $33.33 per month
  • five seats for your team
  • access to all Manning books, MEAPs, liveVideos, liveProjects, and audiobooks!
  • choose another free product every time you renew
  • choose twelve free products per year
  • exclusive 50% discount on all purchases
  • renews monthly, pause or cancel renewal anytime
  • renews annually, pause or cancel renewal anytime
  • The Coder Cafe ebook for free