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