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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
* ⇢ Formal education

## Technical books

In random order:

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

## 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:

* 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
* Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley
* Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
* 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:

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

=> ../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:

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

## Technical guides

These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very useful. in random order:

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

## Podcasts

### Podcasts I like

In random order:

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

### 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)
* CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]
* Modern Mentor
* FLOSS weekly

## Newsletters I like

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

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

# 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