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