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