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. 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Downey; O'Reilly * 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications * Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy * Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly * Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt * The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley * 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly * The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle * Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf * Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing * Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly * Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly * Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly * Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer * DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible * Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress * The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional * 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 * Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing * DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly * Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt * Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson * C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup; * Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook * Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications * Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress * Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner * Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly * 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly * Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom; * Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly * Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press * Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers * Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress * Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School * Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional * Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly * Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press * Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers * The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook * Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly * Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly * Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann * Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press * Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders * The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible * The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton * Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook ## 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: * Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley * BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley * Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas * The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press * Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly * Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly * Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly * Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt ## Self-development and soft-skills books In random order: * The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK * Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon * Getting Things Done; David Allen * Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books * Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business * The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers * The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook * The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd * 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook * 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook * The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite * The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook * Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion * The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate * Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne * Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley * Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications * Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing * Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business * The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge * Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus * The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME) * Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House * The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select * Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook * Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press * Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly * The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books * Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook * Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks * Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin * So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus * Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME) * Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons * Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook * Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy * The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook * Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University [Here are notes of mine for some of the books](../notes/index.md) ## Technical video lectures and courses Some of these were in-person with exams; others were online learning lectures only. In random order: * The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online * Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online * MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training * Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online * Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training * Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen * 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) * Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon * AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training * Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training * The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online * F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc. * Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online * Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online * Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...; * Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online ## Technical guides These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very useful. in random order: * How CPUs work at https://cpu.land * Raku Guide at https://raku.guide * Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide ## Podcasts ### Podcasts I like In random order: * Hidden Brain * BSD Now [BSD] * Pratical AI * Deep Questions with Cal Newport * Dev Interrupted * Wednesday Wisdom * Modern Mentor * Maintainable * The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast * Fallthrough [Golang] * Cup o' Go [Golang] * Backend Banter * The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast) * The Changelog Podcast(s) * 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. * Modern Mentor * FLOSS weekly * Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough) * CRE: Chaosradio Express [german] * Java Pub House * Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out) ## Newsletters I like This is a mix of tech and non-tech newsletters I am subscribed to. In random order: * Golang Weekly * The Imperfectionist * Applied Go Weekly Newsletter * The Valuable Dev * byteSizeGo * Ruby Weekly * Register Spill * Monospace Mentor * The Pragmatic Engineer * Changelog News * VK Newsletter * Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author) ## Magazines I like(d) This is a mix of tech I like(d). I may not be a current subscriber, but now and then, I buy an issue. In random order: * freeX (not published anymore) * Linux User * LWN (online only) * Linux Magazine # 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](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](./)