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<h1 style='display: inline' id='resources'>Resources</h1><br />
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<span>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.</span><br />
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<span>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.</span><br />
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<span>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...</span><br />
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<h2 style='display: inline' id='table-of-contents'>Table of Contents</h2><br />
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<li><a href='#resources'>Resources</a></li>
<li>⇢ <a href='#technical-books'>Technical books</a></li>
<li>⇢ <a href='#technical-references'>Technical references</a></li>
<li>⇢ <a href='#self-development-and-soft-skills-books'>Self-development and soft-skills books</a></li>
<li>⇢ <a href='#technical-video-lectures-and-courses'>Technical video lectures and courses</a></li>
<li>⇢ <a href='#technical-guides'>Technical guides</a></li>
<li>⇢ <a href='#podcasts-i-like'>Podcasts I like</a></li>
<li>⇢ <a href='#newsletters-i-like'>Newsletters I like</a></li>
<li><a href='#formal-education'>Formal education</a></li>
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<h2 style='display: inline' id='technical-books'>Technical books</h2><br />
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<span>In random order:</span><br />
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<li>97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress</li>
<li>Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly</li>
<li>The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional</li>
<li>Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing</li>
<li>Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press</li>
<li>Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press</li>
<li>Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press</li>
<li>The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible</li>
<li>Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy</li>
<li>Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications</li>
<li>Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner</li>
<li>Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly</li>
<li>100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications</li>
<li>Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress</li>
<li>DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible</li>
<li>Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly</li>
<li>The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle</li>
<li>Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson</li>
<li>Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly</li>
<li>21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley</li>
<li>Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers</li>
<li>DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom; </li>
<li>Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann</li>
<li>Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress</li>
<li>Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional</li>
<li>Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders</li>
<li>Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers </li>
<li>Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School</li>
<li>Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt</li>
<li>C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;</li>
<li>Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer</li>
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<h2 style='display: inline' id='technical-references'>Technical references</h2><br />
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<span>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:</span><br />
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<li>Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly</li>
<li>BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley</li>
<li>Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas</li>
<li>Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly</li>
<li>The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press </li>
<li>Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley</li>
</ul><br />
<h2 style='display: inline' id='self-development-and-soft-skills-books'>Self-development and soft-skills books</h2><br />
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<span>In random order:</span><br />
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<li>The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook</li>
<li>Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House</li>
<li>Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University </li>
<li>The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books</li>
<li>101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audible</li>
<li>Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books</li>
<li>The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate</li>
<li>The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd</li>
<li>Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press</li>
<li>Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne</li>
<li>The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books</li>
<li>Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley</li>
<li>So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus</li>
<li>Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks</li>
<li>Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business</li>
<li>Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications</li>
<li>The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK</li>
<li>The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite</li>
<li>Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business</li>
<li>Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion </li>
<li>The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select</li>
<li>Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon</li>
<li>The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge</li>
<li>Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin</li>
<li>Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons</li>
<li>Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing</li>
<li>The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers</li>
<li>Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audible</li>
<li>Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus</li>
</ul><br />
<a class='textlink' href='https://foo.zone/notes/index.html'>Here are notes of mine for some of the books (HTTP)</a><br />
<a class='textlink' href='gemini://foo.zone/notes/index.gmi'>Here are notes of mine for some of the books (Gemini)</a><br />
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<h2 style='display: inline' id='technical-video-lectures-and-courses'>Technical video lectures and courses</h2><br />
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<span>Some of these were in-person with exams; others were online learning lectures only. In random order:</span><br />
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<li>Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training</li>
<li>F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc. </li>
<li>The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training</li>
<li>AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training </li>
<li>Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen</li>
<li>Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon</li>
<li>Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...; </li>
<li>Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training</li>
</ul><br />
<h2 style='display: inline' id='technical-guides'>Technical guides</h2><br />
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<span>These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very useful. in random order:</span><br />
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<li>Raku Guide at https://raku.guide </li>
<li>Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide </li>
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<h2 style='display: inline' id='podcasts-i-like'>Podcasts I like</h2><br />
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<span>In random order:</span><br />
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<li>Ship it (Changelog) </li>
<li>Maintainable</li>
<li>Backend Banter</li>
<li>Cup o' Go [Golang]</li>
<li>Deep Questions with Cal Newport</li>
<li>Hidden Brain</li>
<li>Go Time (Changelog)</li>
<li>Modern Mentor</li>
<li>Java Pub House</li>
<li>Dev Interrupted</li>
</ul><br />
<h2 style='display: inline' id='newsletters-i-like'>Newsletters I like</h2><br />
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<span>This is a mix of tech and non-tech newsletters I am subscribed to. In random order:</span><br />
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<ul>
<li>Golang Weekly</li>
<li>Register Spill</li>
<li>VK Newsletter</li>
<li>Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author)</li>
<li>Ruby Weekly</li>
<li>The Valuable Dev</li>
<li>Applied Go Weekly Newsletter</li>
<li>The Imperfectionist</li>
<li>byteSizeGo</li>
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<h1 style='display: inline' id='formal-education'>Formal education</h1><br />
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<span>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.</span><br />
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<span>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.</span><br />
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<li>One year Student exchange program in OH, USA</li>
<li>German School Majors (Abitur), focus areas: German and Mathematics</li>
<li>Half-year internship as a C/C++ programmer in Sofia, Bulgaria</li>
<li>Graduated from University as Diplom-Inform. (FH) at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany</li>
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<span>My diploma thesis, "Object-oriented development of a GUI based tool for event-based simulation of distributed systems," can be found at:</span><br />
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<a class='textlink' href='https://codeberg.org/snonux/vs-sim'>https://codeberg.org/snonux/vs-sim</a><br />
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<span>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.</span><br />
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<span>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!)</span><br />
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