Very basic, repetitive, poorly read

The book can be useful for high level managers and people with little understanding of technology, but claiming that it's meant for 'practicing software developers' is a huge overstatement.

Most of the content is extremly basic and any programmer should know it already, with some of the examples being almost childish. On top of that the book is repetitive to annoying level, You're going to hear at least 100 times that you should validate input and never deploy software without prior testing, as if the author assumed that the reader is not capable of memorizing basic concepts.

Then it comes the reading - it feels almost as if the book was read by Siri, and even if you speed up the playback, you're going to frantically smash the 'skip' button whenever Tanya starts spelling URLs and code examples. Yeah, she really does it, she does it slow, and makes sure you won't miss any special character.

So do I think it's completely useless? NO! The general concept of the book is good - most of us are going to pick up at least several details that may end up useful and worth further reading or at least inspire to adapt some internal processes.
I also like that many of the recommendations are based in reality and not asking for impossible effort, as many purely theorethical positions do. The book is also fairly up to date, which means it covers some of the topics that may be new for those not keeping up with the latest developmnets.

Overall, that would be a very good 30min read if presented in a concise and organized leaflet. In the current form, if you're technical, you need to decide if you're willing to suffer for 10h just to fish some interesting details, although be warned, keeping focused won't be easy. Consider skipping the first chapter, or several of them.

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