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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:

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

## 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:

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

## Self-development and soft-skills books

In random order:

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

=> ../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:

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

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

## Podcasts

### Podcasts I like

In random order:

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

### 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
* Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)
* Java Pub House
* 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:

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

## 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
* freeX (not published anymore)
* 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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