Here is a collection of other blogs, podcasts, tools and posts that I frequently reference or find interesting and inspirational.
Blogroll#
- Julia Evans — Clear, illustrated explanations of complex systems and debugging. Her zines are legendary.
- Cloudflare Blog — Deep dives into networking, security and edge computing at scale.
- Last Week in AWS — Corey Quinn’s snarky but insightful take on AWS news and cloud economics.
- Learnk8s — Excellent Kubernetes content, from beginner guides to advanced production patterns.
- Martin Fowler — The reference for software architecture, refactoring and design patterns.
- Werner Vogels’ Blog — CTO of Amazon’s thoughts on distributed systems and building for scale.
- The Pragmatic Engineer — Gergely Orosz on engineering culture, hiring and Big Tech.
- Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings — Creator of Flask. Deep thoughts on Python, Rust and software engineering.
- High Scalability — Stories and architectures of real-world large-scale systems.
- A Cloud Guru Blog — Cloud tutorials and certification guides.
Podcasts#
- Darknet Diaries — True stories from the dark side of the internet. My favourite cybersecurity podcast.
- Command Line Heroes — Red Hat’s podcast on the history and future of open source.
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google — News and interviews from the Kubernetes community.
- Screaming in the Cloud — Conversations about cloud computing with industry leaders.
- Software Engineering Daily — Daily interviews on every aspect of software engineering.
- The Cloudcast — Cloud computing, containers and DevOps discussions.
Tools & Resources#
- Excalidraw — Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn style diagrams. Perfect for architecture sketches.
- Roadmap.sh — Community-driven roadmaps for DevOps, Cloud, Kubernetes and more.
- Explain Shell — Type a shell command, get an explanation of what each part does.
- Regex101 — Build, test and debug regular expressions with explanations.
- CyberChef — The “Swiss Army Knife” of encoding/decoding and data transformation.
- Diagrams.net (Draw.io) — Free diagramming tool for architecture diagrams and flowcharts.
- Crontab Guru — The quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions.
Must-read Articles#
- The Twelve-Factor App — The methodology for building software-as-a-service apps.
- Google SRE Book — Google’s guide to site reliability engineering. Free and comprehensive.
- AWS Well-Architected Framework — The definitive guide for building secure, high-performing, resilient and efficient infrastructure.
- Martin Fowler: Microservices — The original article that defined the microservices architecture pattern.
- Brendan Gregg: Linux Performance — The ultimate resource for Linux performance analysis.
- The Cloudflare Blog: How We Scaled — Real-world stories of scaling infrastructure.
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