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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:

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

## 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
* Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley
* Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
* BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
* Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; 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:

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

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

* Cup o' Go [Golang]
* Dev Interrupted
* Fork Around And Find Out
* Deep Questions with Cal Newport
* Hidden Brain
* The Changelog Podcast(s)
* Backend Banter
* BSD Now
* Maintainable
* The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
* The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
* Fallthrough [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
* Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)
* FLOSS weekly
* Modern Mentor
* CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]

## Newsletters I like

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

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

# 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