Favorites

List of recommended tools and links...

Books

Cloud Native Observability with OpenTelemetry

Learn about OpenTelemetry and how you can standardize monitoring for your applications.

Sapiens: A Graphic History

This series of graphic novels is the adaptation of the book "Sapiens".

Building Microservices

A reference book about microservices architectures.

The Lean Startup

A way to think about agility at the business and product strategy level.

The DevOps Handbook

A reference book to learn about DevOps.

How Google Tests Software

An look at Google's approach to software testing.

Podcast

Software Engineering Daily

Technical interviews about software topics.

The Changelog

Weekly shows about developer culture, software development, open source, building startups, artificial intelligence, and the people involved.

The Crazy One podcast

The Crazy One is created out of the real experiences and insights of host and award-winning designer and design leader Stephen Gates, who gives you actionable insights to be more creative, become a better leader, create more innovative work, build better relationships with your clients, grow a stronger career, and more.

Masters of Scale

Masters of Scale is an original podcast hosted by Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and investor at Greylock. In each episode, Reid shows how companies grow from zero to a gazillion, testing his theories with legendary leaders.

YouTube

GOTO Conferences

Created for developers, by developers, GOTO Conferences are focused on bringing the best minds in the software community and the most interesting topics to light. This channel features video interviews and presentations from GOTO Conferences and GOTO Nights.

Container Ecosystem

Rancher Desktop

An alternative to Docker Desktop. It provides a development environment for Docker and Kubernetes on Linux, Windows, and MacOS.

K3s

K3s is a simple, lightweight Kubernetes installation.

K9s

K9s is a command line user interface for Kubernetes.

NATS

NATS.io is a simple, secure, and high performance open source messaging system for cloud native applications, IoT messaging, and microservices architectures.

Traefik

A reverse proxy / load balancer that's easy, dynamic, automatic, fast, full-featured, open source, production proven, provides metrics, and integrates with every major cluster technology.

Software Engineering Tools and Frameworks

OpenTelemetry

High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability.

11ty

A simple but powerful static site generator.

Cypress.io

Fast, easy, and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.

Serverless.com

Build web, mobile, and IoT applications using AWS Lambda and API Gateway, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, and more.

Nuxt.js

Nuxt.js presets all the configuration needed to make your development of a Vue.js application enjoyable.

Prettier

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.

TypeScript

TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

Ionic

Mobile applications using web technologies.

NativeScript

Vue.js

Vue is a progressive framework for building user interfaces.

Hugging Face

Hugging Face provides open-source libraries and tools for AI and machine learning.