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