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Choose your own IT readventure! 📚 🌄 💻

If you are a stubborn learner, eat books for breakfast, and want to discover new concepts or hunt new skills related to the IT world, I can assure you that you are in the right nook of the Internet. Prepare yourself to be amazed by a choose-your-own-adventure journey in the IT world. Hopefully, it will take you to interesting places thanks to the power and the fun of reading.

Finally, make sure you don’t forget about putting your newly acquired skills to the test, remember that practice makes the master!

Starting your adventure is as easy as picking the set of skills that you want to learn or improve, check out the learning paths and choose your starting point. There are paths focused on a particular technology or skill, and more generic ones, but both are useful and can be combined depending of your goal.

⚠ A minimum previous knowledge is required to start some of these adventures. Various of them have been assembled to enlarge or acquire expertise in topics considered, until certain point, advanced. If you are new to the IT world or if you want to follow a learning path of high difficulty my recommendation is that, before adventuring, you read first about the basics and foundational concepts of that particular topic.

You can keep browsing this repo or use the web version 🚀.

🏁 Start your adventure, choose your learning path wisely

• 10 learning paths 🎓

  • 1 CI/CD 🚧: Automation is key to improve quality and shorten software releases. Read all about continuous integration and delivery principles, master the tools and learn the bases that will make you be more effective and efficient.
  • 3 Event Driven Architecture (EDA) 🚧: Asynchronous communication between services is possible using events. There is a lot to learn here, the main challenge is changing the way you think about communication patterns.
  • 4 Golang ☑: A modern general purpose programming language born to make easier developing things like APIs, command line applications, cloud native applications, and concurrency patterns.
  • 1 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) 🆕: Automate the cloud infrastructure deployment with code, make it reusable, deliver faster, more secure and have a backup of all the work you did, as code.
  • 8 Kubernetes ☑: Run containers at scale and unlock the power of building microservice platforms thanks to the Kubernetes orchestrator.
  • 3 Microservices 🚧: Study the pinnacle of distributed systems architectures, learn its tenets, and foremost, when and how to implement it.
  • 7 Software Architecture 🚧: Building software is not only about writing code, to design great platforms you should learn to think about extensibility, efficiency, easy integration, resilience, flexibility, and much more.
  • 4 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) 🆕: SRE is about making productive system to stay up, to make update cycles simpler and more frequent, to identify and resolve problems and, of course, automating things to make the life easier.
  • 6 System Design ☑: Acquire the skill needed to design and build systems, no matter if simple or complex. Learn how to identify the elements needed to create systems, to resolve scalability problems, detect possible points of failure, when to use an API, where to place a cache, when to use a NoSql database, and more.
  • 2 Team Management 🆕: Building team is no easy feat, doing it to be efficient to deliver quality products and services blazinlig fast is really hard. Roll up your sleeves and discover what makes a good team.

• 36 books 📚 , discover them all in the 📜 book index.

• 65 authors ✒ , discover them all in the 📜 author index.

📛 Badges

Badges indicates some aspects of the learning paths or books, like status, difficulty, rating, and more!

🎓 Learning path badges

These badges show the current status of the learning path:

📚 Books badges

All books have some badges associated to describe some aspect of them:

• You will read each book with the same amount of energy needed to fight these opponents, from lower to higher difficulty (these are totally subjective):

• Reading progress:

• My book rating and recommendation level from lower to higher:

Note: there are just four levels because all books mentioned are good reads, bad books don't belong here 👎.

• Other badges:

👽About me

I am a professional Cloud and Platform Engineer, DevOps practitioner, and Architect in construction. Also I develop things in my free time just for the fun of learning how not to do things. My main interests are the cloud, microservice architectures, EDA, serverless, system design, Kubernetes, and Golang.

This repo is conceived as a journal of my personal journey and a learning path to guide others who, like me, find in reading the best way to acquire deep knowledge in certain topics. I will put together a list that categorizes all the books I've read as well as those that I intend to read, or those that I consider of some importance in the IT field. The list is subjective, it will reflect my interests or the way I've decided to explore topics (most likely in a chaotic way).

If you think some books may fit better in other categories, or the category names are not accurate enough or have suggestions about possible improvements just let me know and I will gladly consider your comments.

Of course, there will be books broadly considered a must-read that I have not listed, that's either because they don't fit in my career or simply because I don't know of their existence, in any case let me know!

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy! 👐

📗 Books Read (21 📚)

Cover	Info	Learning Paths
	Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations Nicole Forsgren Published in 2018 288 pages 🐕 📗 🆒	Team Management
	Building Event-Driven Microservices: Building Event-Driven Microservices Adam Bellemare Published in 2020 321 pages 🐕 📗 🆙	Event Driven Architecture (EDA)
	Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems Sam Newman Published in 2022 616 pages 🐕 📗 🔝 🔖	Microservices
	Building an Event-Driven Data Mesh: Patterns for Designing & Building Event-Driven Architectures Adam Bellemare Published in 2023 275 pages 🐅 📗 🆗	Event Driven Architecture (EDA)
	Cloud Native Go: Cloud Native Go Matthew A. Titmus Published in 2021 433 pages 🐉 📗 🔝	Golang
	Design Patterns for Cloud Native Applications: Patterns in Practice Using APIs, Data, Events and Streams Kasun Indrasiri, Sriskandarajah Suhothayan Published in 2021 311 pages 🐕 📗 🔝	Software Architecture System Design
	Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS: A modern approach to designing and implementing scalable microservices platforms with NATS messaging Chanaka Fernando Published in 2021 356 pages 🐕 📗 🆗	Event Driven Architecture (EDA)
	Foundations of Scalable Systems: Designing Distributed Architectures Ian Gorton Published in 2022 320 pages 🐕 📗 🆗	System Design Software Architecture
	Knative in Action Jacques Chester Published in 2021 272 pages 🐅 📗 🆗	Kubernetes
	Kubernetes: Up & Running Brendan Burns, Joe Beda, Kelsey Hightower Published in 2022 326 pages 🐥 📗 🆒	Kubernetes
	Kubernetes Patterns: Reusable Elements for Designing Cloud Native Applications Bilgin Ibryam, Roland Huss Published in 2023 (2nd edition) 300 pages 🐥 📗 🆒 🔜	Kubernetes
	Learning GitHub Actions: Automation and Integration of CI/CD with GitHub Brent Laster Published in 2023 375 pages 🐥 📗 🆒	CI/CD
	Let's Go: Let's Go Alex Edwards Published in 2019 305 pages 🐕 📗 🔝	Golang
	Let's Go Further!: Let's Go Further! Alex Edwards Published in 2021 582 pages 🐅 📗 🔝	Golang
	Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith Sam Newman Published in 2019 270 pages 🐕 📗	Microservices
	Production Kubernetes: Production Kubernetes Josh Rosso, Rich Lander, Alex Brand, John Harris Published in 2021 506 pages 🐅 📗 🔝	Kubernetes
	Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Myrphy Published in 2017 552 pages 🐕 📗 🆙	Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
	System Design Interview: An insider's guide Alex Xu Published in 2020 309 pages 🐅 📗	System Design
	System Design Interview volume 2: An insider's guide Alex Xu Published in 2022 424 pages 🐅 📗	System Design
	Team Topologies: Team Topologies Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais Published in 2019 240 pages 🐥 📗 🆙	Team Management

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