Reading List

This is a refined version of my actual reading list and contains articles / websites / books that helped me a lot or that I find interesting. The lists and their content are in no particular order.

Books

• A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition by John K. Ousterhout (978-1732102217)

Links

• Effective Go
• REST: Working with asynchronous operations
• The Curious Case of Position Independent Executables
• In defence of swap: common misconceptions
• Hermetic /usr/: Fitting Everything Together
• ZFS 101—Understanding ZFS storage and performance
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Services

I am not affiliated with any company/project listed here. I am either actively using them or have used them extensively in the past. There might be better alternatives, but this is what I picked. All services are either free, have a free tier or offer a free trial.

• Let’s Encrypt - for TLS certificates
• Tailscale - used to access my private networks from anywhere
• updown.io - powers my status page and uptime monitoring
• AWS - Route53 and some free tiers
• Kubernetes - container orchestration
• NixOS