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<span> Resources</span><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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<h2 style='display: inline' id='table-of-contents'>Table of Contents</h2><br />
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<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='#magazines-i-liked'>Magazines I like(d)</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>Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook</li>
<li>DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible</li>
<li>Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann</li>
<li>Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook</li>
<li>Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly</li>
<li>21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press</li>
<li>DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf</li>
<li>Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing</li>
<li>Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt </li>
<li>100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications</li>
<li>The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton</li>
<li>Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy</li>
<li>Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner</li>
<li>Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress</li>
<li>Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer</li>
<li>Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press</li>
<li>Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers </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>Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional</li>
<li>The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook</li>
<li>Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt</li>
<li>Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom; </li>
<li>97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing</li>
<li>The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley</li>
<li>Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers</li>
<li>Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly</li>
<li>The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible</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>Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson</li>
<li>C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;</li>
<li>Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress</li>
<li>Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders</li>
<li>Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress</li>
<li>The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle</li>
<li>The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional</li>
<li>Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School</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>BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley</li>
<li>Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly</li>
<li>The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press </li>
<li>Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley</li>
<li>Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt</li>
<li>Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas</li>
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<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>Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook</li>
<li>Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook</li>
<li>Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks</li>
<li>The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite</li>
<li>Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business</li>
<li>The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook </li>
<li>The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME)</li>
<li>The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook</li>
<li>Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook</li>
<li>The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books</li>
<li>Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin</li>
<li>Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon</li>
<li>The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook</li>
<li>Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing</li>
<li>Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business</li>
<li>The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd</li>
<li>97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook</li>
<li>Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications</li>
<li>Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley</li>
<li>Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion</li>
<li>Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly</li>
<li>Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press</li>
<li>The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select</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>Getting Things Done; David Allen</li>
<li>101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook</li>
<li>Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons</li>
<li>Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University </li>
<li>The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge</li>
<li>Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus</li>
<li>Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books</li>
<li>The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK</li>
<li>Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy</li>
<li>Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House</li>
<li>The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers</li>
<li>Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)</li>
<li>So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus</li>
<li>The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate</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>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>The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online</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>The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen</li>
<li>AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training </li>
<li>Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training</li>
<li>Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc. </li>
<li>Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...; </li>
<li>MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training</li>
<li>Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online</li>
<li>Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; 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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<ul>
<li>Raku Guide at https://raku.guide </li>
<li>How CPUs work at https://cpu.land</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 Pragmatic Engineer Podcast</li>
<li>BSD Now [BSD]</li>
<li>Modern Mentor</li>
<li>Hidden Brain</li>
<li>The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)</li>
<li>Backend Banter</li>
<li>Maintainable</li>
<li>Wednesday Wisdom</li>
<li>Fallthrough [Golang]</li>
<li>Dev Interrupted</li>
<li>Fork Around And Find Out</li>
<li>Deep Questions with Cal Newport</li>
<li>Cup o' Go [Golang]</li>
<li>The Changelog Podcast(s)</li>
<li>Pratical AI</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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<ul>
<li>FLOSS weekly</li>
<li>Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)</li>
<li>Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out)</li>
<li>Modern Mentor</li>
<li>Java Pub House</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>Golang Weekly</li>
<li>Register Spill</li>
<li>Monospace Mentor</li>
<li>Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author)</li>
<li>Applied Go Weekly Newsletter</li>
<li>The Valuable Dev</li>
<li>The Pragmatic Engineer</li>
<li>VK Newsletter</li>
<li>Changelog News</li>
<li>Ruby Weekly</li>
<li>byteSizeGo</li>
<li>The Imperfectionist</li>
</ul><br />
<h2 style='display: inline' id='magazines-i-liked'>Magazines I like(d)</h2><br />
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<span>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:</span><br />
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<ul>
<li>LWN (online only)</li>
<li>freeX (not published anymore)</li>
<li>Linux User</li>
<li>Linux Magazine</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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