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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:

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

## 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:

* Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
* 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
* The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press 
* Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
* Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
* Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt

## Self-development and soft-skills books

In random order:

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

=> ../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:

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

## Podcasts

### Podcasts I like

In random order:

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

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

## Newsletters I like

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

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

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

# 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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