An opinionated and curated list of Computer Science concepts in the spirit of Josh Kaufman's The Personal MBA (https://personalmba.com/)
My name is Peter Zaffina and I'm passionate about using technology to improve people's lives. I'm a self taught technologist with a focus on designing systems to help small local government businesses solve their workflow problems.
I'm living proof of the character Will Hunting's quote:
You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.
― Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting
I've compiled a list of references to help guide others with their self development journey.
This is currently a mind dump. I'll be working to shape this into a more coherent structure over time.
- Legacy Code
- Test Driven Development
- Domain Driven Design
- Software Design Patterns
- Software Architectural Patterns
- OLTP / OLAP
- Write heavy vs. Read heavy workflows
- Eventual consistancy
- NoSQL
- Data warehousing
- Kimball
- Slowly changing dimensions
- SQL
- ETL vs. ELT
- Functional Programming
- Object Oriented Programming
- Procedural Programming
- Imperative vs Declarative
- DevOps
- Legacy Code
- Responsive Web Design
- Agile
- Agile Manifesto
- "The Subway problem"
- Virtualization
- Containerization
- Infrastructure as Code
- MVC Pattern
- Event Driven Microservices
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Clean Architecture
- Microsoft guides
- Monoliths
- Postgresql
- A Curious Moon
- Architecture
- learining.oreilly.com
- Ada Lovelace
- Bob "Uncle Bob" Martin
- Michael Feathers
- Dorothy Vaughan
- Kent Beck
- Brooks
- Conway
- Dyskstra
- Guido van Rossum
- Zen of Python
- Web is platform that best delivers write once, run anywhere
- LoB apps in Enterprise as web first
- Event driven to act as unifying sysytem of lots of different disparate systems
- Customer addresses and every system needing access to a central data system. When One changes some other businesses need the knowledge that there was a change, even if they don't want to change.
- ftw
- Functional
- Web based
- F# / C#
- Postgres
- Event Driven Pub/Sub
- Python
- Django framework
- sqlite
- Clojure
- Typescript
- C#
- Blazor framework
- Gang of Four
- Wizard Book
- The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
- by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
- Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
- by Robert C. Martin
- Kent Beck
- Michael Feathers
- Don Dykstra
- Lean Start Up
- Waltzing with Bears
- The Phoenix Project
- by by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford
- https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/0988262592
- The Unicorn Project
- The DevOps Handbook
- by Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Jez Humble, and John Allspaw
- https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002
- Domain Modeling Made Functional: Tackle Software Complexity with Domain-Driven Design and F#
- by Scott Wlaschin
- The Effective Manager
- by Mark Horstman
- The Turning book on breaking down his paper
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
- Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
*note: links are for convenience, I don't receive anything when you use them