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...
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Table of Contents
Technical books
In random order:
- The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
- Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
- Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
- The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley
- The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
- Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
- Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
- Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
- Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
- Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
- Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
- Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
- Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
- 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
- Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
- Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
- 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications
- Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
- DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
- Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers
- Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
- Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
- Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications
- Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School
- Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
- Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
- 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
- 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
- Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
- Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom;
- Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
- Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
- Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
- Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
- The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
- Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
- The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook
- Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
- Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
- Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
- Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
- The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton
- C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;
- DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
- Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
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:
- Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
- Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
- Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
- Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
- BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
- The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press
- Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley
Self-development and soft-skills books
In random order:
- Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
- Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
- Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
- The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite
- Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
- Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
- The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books
- Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon
- Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
- The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
- The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
- Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
- Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
- The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
- The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
- Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat
- The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
- Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audible
- Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
- Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
- The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
- Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
- Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
- 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audible
- The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
- The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
- Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
- Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University
- Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
- Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
- So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
- Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
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:
- Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
- F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc.
- Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...;
- AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training
- 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)
- Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online
- Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
- Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
- MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training
- Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online
- The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
- Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen
- Protocol buffers; 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
- The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
Technical guides
These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very useful. in random order:
- Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
- How CPUs work at https://cpu.land
- Raku Guide at https://raku.guide
Podcasts
Podcasts I like
In random order:
- Deep Questions with Cal Newport
- Cup o' Go [Golang]
- The Changelog Podcast(s)
- The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
- Maintainable
- Fallthrough [Golang]
- Dev Interrupted
- BSD Now
- Hidden Brain
- The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
- Backend Banter
- Fork Around And Find Out
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.
- Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)
- Java Pub House
- Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out)
- Modern Mentor
- FLOSS weekly
- CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]
Newsletters I like
This is a mix of tech and non-tech newsletters I am subscribed to. In random order:
- The Imperfectionist
- Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author)
- Golang Weekly
- The Valuable Dev
- The Pragmatic Engineer
- Register Spill
- byteSizeGo
- Applied Go Weekly Newsletter
- VK Newsletter
- Changelog News
- Ruby Weekly
- Monospace Mentor
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!)
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