Looking for something interesting?
Here you can find communities, books, audiobooks, that I have found interesting and I consider worth sharing.
Most of them are regarding Tech but not technical, I hope you can find something interesting
podcasts
Darknet Diaries
This is my favourite podcast, Jack covers really well complex hacking stories in a simple and enjoyable way. If you are not sure with which podcast to begin, start with this one.
Command Line Heroes
Ever wanted to know about the persons and their stories who changed the computer industry? this is a podcast for it. I really like it covers many fields of computer science.
Hacked
More stories about hacking in a easy way to follow. When you go for a walk this is a good podcast.
The Ransomware Files
A different subject that I'm not too familiar, but is interesting, ransomware. Stories shared by the persons who were hit and how they recover from it.
Open Source Security
Kurt and Josh make open source topics very interesting from the security and coding perspective. An enjoyable podcast. Available on several platforms.
Changelog Master Feed
This is not one Podcast, but a feed of several podcast related to tech. I find quite interesting the conversations, specially on 'ship it', 'go time' and 'js party'
DevOps Paradox
I recently started hearing the podcast but I really love the technical part of it, direct to the point, great learning while walking
Soft Skills Engineering
You know, not everything is technical stuff, many times it comes to the human side. This is a great Podcast to level up your engineering skills beyond coding. Is nice you can ask questions.
books
Building Microservices, 2nd Edition
This book helped me to start understanding microservices, I really like how is organized. Highly recommended if you are starting your journey in microservices.
TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
This is the book if you want to learn TCP. For me there is a Before and After I read it. Highly technical, and sometimes hard to follow but highly recommended.
Model-Driven DevOps
A book for network automation. Nice emphases single source of truth, using data structures to automate and shemas to validate. Is small book and direct to the point.
Mastering Ansible
This book helped me to start my journey with Ansible, it was valuable to see how Ansible works and how its different components interact.
audiobooks
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
If you have to start with a book from this list, this is the one. Super interesting stories from Kevin Mitnick starting career. Highly recommended
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Amaizing and technical book written as a novel, about how to catch one of the first hacking incidents. Feels like a view in the early history of computers in the 90. Real story
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
As a engineer I felt this story like I was in it. Start not only your devops journey here, but learn how to think about business goals and functions. Great story
Crime Dot Com: From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global
Many super interesting hacking stories, how the crime went for hacking, like the case of the bangladesh bank heist.
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Story from a the New York Times reporter, covering cyberwarfare events across US, Russia and Ukraine.
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
Stories of one the most famous American hacking group and their involvement of the invented concept of hacktivism
The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
Inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics with operations like Olympic Games.
The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War
North Korean most famous hacking group. One of the most effective criminal enterprises on the planet.
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
Story of one of the most dangerous team of cyberwarriors working in the service of Russia's military intelligence agency.
Permanent Record
Insights from Edward Snowden life and career and the event that lead to the leak of US documents.
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Stuxnet was one of the major breakthrough in cyberware, this book tells the story in super detail about the events at that time.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Not a tech book, but as an Engineer I always want to know how stuff works. This book is amaizing in that and tells the history behind. Super recommended.
Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
I like Sherlock Holmes, and this is a super collection, great narrator, great stories. If you can, hear it.
How to Build a Car
As a fan of F1, I really enjoyed this book. A great insight of how to think as a engineer to solve challenges. Also a great F1 history from one of the most successful engineers the sport has.
sites
Experienced Devs
This is one of my favourite communities, great advises for stuff that only experience can teach you, technical but not technical stuff like emotional intelligence. Ask questions.
Enterprise Networking Design, Support, and Discussion
I'm a network engineer, interesting to see what other network engineers do and face day-to-day. Technical questions as well.
Sysadmin
Even though I'm not a sysadmin, I enjoyed their stories about their work and most of the time here you can find outages before everyone else.
cscareerquestions
Question for about working in the tech industry. Some questions/comments are very interesting. Most US centric.
