I'm really amazed when I found on Amazon a very old book from Martin Fowler: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. I have this book and I rechecked my assumptions and found this book is badly outdated. I mean most of their suggestions and patterns are already implemented in several frameworks (spring, spring-mvc, hibernate/jpa, etc..), the current architectural solutions are stepped over on it, but the price is still high. Maybe they keeping them for the collectors or multi-millionare developer veterans :)
Currently the IT sector is growing quickly and lot of newbies are arriving to train themself to the next Peter Norton (Is anyone knowing him? :) ), Larry Page (better known) or Guido van Rossum. Thanks to the internet, voluntarism and the open source community we can learn almost everything for free, but some of us need to buy some paper books to erect a statue of our learning efforts.
I don't really know what should Amazon do with these books, but it alerts me to read all reviews carefully even if it written by trendy/famous authors to avoid traps like this.
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