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