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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

* ⇢ ⇢ 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:

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

## 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
* 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
* Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
* Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt
* Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
* Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley

## Self-development and soft-skills books

In random order:

* Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
* Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
* Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
* Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
* Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
* The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
* Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
* The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
* 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook
* The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
* So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
* Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
* Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
* Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
* The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
* The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook 
* Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
* Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
* The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook
* Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
* Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
* The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
* Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
* Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook
* Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
* Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon
* The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
* Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
* Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook
* Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook
* Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University  
* Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
* The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
* Getting Things Done; David Allen
* 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook
* The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
* 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

=> ../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:

* Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen
* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...; 
* F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc. 
* The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
* Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training
* MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training
* Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
* Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
* Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon
* Protocol buffers; 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)
* The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
* Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
* Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online
* AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training 
* 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:

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

## Podcasts

### Podcasts I like

In random order:

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

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

## Newsletters I like

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

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

* 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

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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