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