# Resources

This site contains a list of resources I find and found helpful. I am not an expert in all of these topics, but all the resources listed here impacted me. I read some of the books quite a long time ago, so there might be newer editions out there already, and I might need to refresh some of the knowledge.

The list may not be exhaustive, but I will be adding more in the future. I firmly believe that educating yourself further is one of the most important things to advance. The lists are in random order and reshuffled every time (via *sort -R*) when updates are made.

You won't find any links on this site because, over time, the links will break. Please use your favourite search engine when you are interested in one of the resources...

```
       .--.           .---.        .-.
   .---|--|   .-.     | A |  .---. |~|    .--.
.--|===|Go|---|_|--.__| S |--|:::| |~|-==-|==|---.
|%%|Lin|la|===| |~~|%%| C |--|   |_|~|Perl|  |___|-.
|  |ux |ng|===| |==|  | I |  |k8s|=| | 7  |Ra|---|=|
|  |   |  |   |_|__|  | I |__|   | | |    |ku|___| |
|~~|===|--|===|~|~~|%%|~~~|--|:::|=|~|----|==|---|=|
^--^---'--^---^-^--^--^---'--^---^-^-^-==-^--^---^-'hjw
```

## Table of Contents

* ⇢ Resources
* ⇢ ⇢ Technical books
* ⇢ ⇢ Technical references
* ⇢ ⇢ Self-development and soft-skills books
* ⇢ ⇢ Technical video lectures and courses
* ⇢ ⇢ Technical guides
* ⇢ ⇢ Podcasts
* ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Podcasts I like
* ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Podcasts I liked
* ⇢ ⇢ Newsletters I like
* ⇢ Formal education

## Technical books

In random order:

* Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
* Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
* Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
* The Practise of System and Network Administration; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup; Addison-Wesley Professional Pro Git; Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; Apress
* Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
* Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
* Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
* Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
* Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
* Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers 
* Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom; 
* Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
* Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt 
* Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
* Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
* The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
* The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
* The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
* The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley
* 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications
* Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
* Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
* Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
* C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;
* Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
* DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
* The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton
* Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
* Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
* 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
* DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
* Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
* Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
* Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
* Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
* Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
* Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School
* Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications
* 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
* Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
* Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
* Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
* Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
* The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook

## Technical references

I didn't read them from the beginning to the end, but I am using them to look up things. The books are in random order:

* Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
* The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press 
* Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley
* Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
* Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
* BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
* Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly

## Self-development and soft-skills books

In random order:

* The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books
* 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audible
* Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
* Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
* The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite
* The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
* The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
* Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion 
* The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
* Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
* Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
* Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
* Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
* Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
* The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
* Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
* Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
* Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
* The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
* Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University  
* Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat
* Getting Things Done; David Allen
* Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
* The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
* The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
* Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
* Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audible
* So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
* The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
* Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
* Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
* Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
* Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon

=> ../notes/index.gmi Here are notes of mine for some of the books

## Technical video lectures and courses

Some of these were in-person with exams; others were online learning lectures only. In random order:

* Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online
* Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
* Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online
* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...; 
* The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
* Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon
* Red Hat Certified System Administrator; Course + certification (Although I had the option, I decided not to take the next course as it is more effective to self learn what I need)
* MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training
* The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
* Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
* Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training
* Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
* Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
* AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training 
* Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen
* F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc. 

## Technical guides

These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very useful. in random order:

* Raku Guide at https://raku.guide  
* How CPUs work at https://cpu.land
* Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide 

## Podcasts

### Podcasts I like

In random order:

* Dev Interrupted
* Fork Around And Find Out
* The Changelog Podcast(s)
* Backend Banter
* Cup o' Go [Golang]
* The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
* Fallthrough [Golang]
* The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
* BSD Now
* Deep Questions with Cal Newport
* Hidden Brain
* Maintainable

### Podcasts I liked

I liked them but am not listening to them anymore. The podcasts have either "finished" (no more episodes) or I stopped listening to them due to time constraints or a shift in my interests.

* Java Pub House
* CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]
* Modern Mentor
* FLOSS weekly
* Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out)
* Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)

## Newsletters I like

This is a mix of tech and non-tech newsletters I am subscribed to. In random order:

* VK Newsletter
* Monospace Mentor
* Register Spill
* The Pragmatic Engineer
* Ruby Weekly
* Changelog News
* Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author)
* Golang Weekly
* Applied Go Weekly Newsletter
* byteSizeGo
* The Imperfectionist
* The Valuable Dev

# Formal education

I have met many self-taught IT professionals I highly respect. In my own opinion, a formal degree does not automatically qualify a person for a particular job. It is more about how you educate yourself further *after* formal education. The pragmatic way of thinking and getting things done do not require a college or university degree.

However, I still believe a degree in Computer Science helps to understand all the theories involved that you would have never learned otherwise. Isn't it cool to understand how compilers work under the hood (automata theory) even if you are not required to hack the compiler in your current position? You could apply the same theory for other things too. This was just *one* example.

* One year Student exchange program in OH, USA
* German School Majors (Abitur), focus areas: German and Mathematics
* Half-year internship as a C/C++ programmer in Sofia, Bulgaria
* Graduated from University as Diplom-Inform. (FH) at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany

My diploma thesis, "Object-oriented development of a GUI based tool for event-based simulation of distributed systems," can be found at:

=> https://codeberg.org/snonux/vs-sim

I was one of the last students handed out an "old fashioned" German Diploma degree before the University switched to the international Bachelor and Master versions. To give you an idea: The "Diplom-Inform. (FH)" means translated "Diploma in Informatics from a University of Applied Sciences (FH: Fachhochschule)". Going after the international student credit score, it can be seen as an equivalent to a  "Master in Computer Science" degree.

Colleges and Universities are costly in many countries. Come to Germany, the first college degree is for free (if you finish within a certain deadline!)

=> ./ Go back