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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:

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

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

## Self-development and soft-skills books

In random order:

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

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

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

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

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

## 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 User
* LWN (online only)
* Linux Magazine
* 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

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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