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# 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

* ⇢ 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
* ⇢ ⇢ Magazines I like(d)
* ⇢ Formal education

## Technical books

In random order:

* Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
* The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook
* C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;
* 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
* Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
* Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf
* DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
* Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
* Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt 
* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
* 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
* Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
* Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom; 
* Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications
* Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers 
* Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
* Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School
* The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
* Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
* Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
* The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
* Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
* Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
* 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 Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
* The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
* Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
* Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
* Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
* Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
* The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton
* Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
* Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
* Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
* Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
* Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
* Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
* The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley
* Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
* Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
* Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
* Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
* Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
* 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications
* DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly

## 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:

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

## Self-development and soft-skills books

In random order:

* Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
* Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University  
* So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
* Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
* Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
* Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
* The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
* Getting Things Done; David Allen
* Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
* Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
* The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
* Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
* Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
* Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
* The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
* Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion 
* The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
* Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
* Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
* Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon
* Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
* Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
* Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
* Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
* The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
* The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
* Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audible
* The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite
* Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
* The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
* The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
* The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
* 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audible

=> ../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:

* Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); 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 Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
* F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc. 
* Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
* Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 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)
* Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
* Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
* AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training 
* Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online
* The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...; 
* Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
* MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training

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

## Podcasts

### Podcasts I like

In random order:

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

### 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.

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

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

## 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:

* LWN (online only)
* freeX (not published anymore)
* Linux Magazine
* Linux User

# 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