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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'>Podcasts</a></li>
<li>⇢ ⇢ <a href='#podcasts-i-like'>Podcasts I like</a></li>
<li>⇢ ⇢ <a href='#podcasts-i-liked'>Podcasts I liked</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>Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing</li>
<li>Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt </li>
<li>Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt</li>
<li>Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press</li>
<li>Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann</li>
<li>Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner</li>
<li>DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible</li>
<li>Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers</li>
<li>DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School</li>
<li>Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy</li>
<li>Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly</li>
<li>The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible</li>
<li>Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress</li>
<li>97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; 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>Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress</li>
<li>Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom; </li>
<li>Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing</li>
<li>The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle</li>
<li>Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press</li>
<li>Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders</li>
<li>C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;</li>
<li>Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer</li>
<li>The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley</li>
<li>21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers </li>
<li>Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly</li>
<li>The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook</li>
<li>Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional</li>
<li>Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press</li>
<li>Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications</li>
<li>Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson</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>The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional</li>
<li>Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress</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>The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press </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>Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley</li>
<li>Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly</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 Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate</li>
<li>Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House</li>
<li>Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley</li>
<li>The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books</li>
<li>Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications</li>
<li>Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus</li>
<li>The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK</li>
<li>Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks</li>
<li>The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers</li>
<li>The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd</li>
<li>Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon</li>
<li>The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge</li>
<li>The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook</li>
<li>Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business</li>
<li>Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books</li>
<li>Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion </li>
<li>Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business</li>
<li>Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons</li>
<li>The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite</li>
<li>Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audible</li>
<li>101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audible</li>
<li>The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select</li>
<li>Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing</li>
<li>The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books</li>
<li>So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus</li>
<li>Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University </li>
<li>Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin</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>Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press</li>
</ul><br />
<a class='textlink' href='../notes/index.html'>Here are notes of mine for some of the books</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>Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc. </li>
<li>Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training</li>
<li>Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen</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>Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; 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>Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...; </li>
<li>Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training</li>
<li>AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training </li>
<li>MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training</li>
<li>The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online</li>
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<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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<ul>
<li>Raku Guide at https://raku.guide </li>
<li>Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide </li>
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<h2 style='display: inline' id='podcasts'>Podcasts</h2><br />
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<h3 style='display: inline' id='podcasts-i-like'>Podcasts I like</h3><br />
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<span>In random order:</span><br />
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<li>The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)</li>
<li>Dev Interrupted</li>
<li>Backend Banter</li>
<li>Maintainable</li>
<li>Deep Questions with Cal Newport</li>
<li>The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast</li>
<li>Cup o' Go [Golang]</li>
<li>Go Time (Changelog)</li>
<li>Hidden Brain</li>
<li>Ship it (Changelog) </li>
</ul><br />
<h3 style='display: inline' id='podcasts-i-liked'>Podcasts I liked</h3><br />
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<span>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.</span><br />
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<li>Java Pub House</li>
<li>FLOSS weekly</li>
<li>Modern Mentor</li>
<li>CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]</li>
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<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>byteSizeGo</li>
<li>Golang Weekly</li>
<li>VK Newsletter</li>
<li>Register Spill</li>
<li>Applied Go Weekly Newsletter</li>
<li>The Valuable Dev</li>
<li>Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author)</li>
<li>The Imperfectionist</li>
<li>Ruby Weekly</li>
</ul><br />
<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>
</ul><br />
<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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