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