Intro

This page exists to share resources we’ve encountered that may prove useful to others (including those starting out in their IT careers that I work with) and in some cases a shortcut for me to return to resources.

1. Intro
2. General Resources
3. GIT
4. API
5. Oracle Cloud
6. Development Knowledge Bases
7. Dev Tools
8. Development Platform Resources
9. OS Resources
10. Development Thought Leaders
11. Development Language Resources
12. Paradigms, Principles & Architectural Philosophy
13. Patterns & Integration
14. UI/UX
15. Softskills
16. Publisher Free Content
17. Security
18. Call for Papers
19. SEO
20. Sources of General Tech Insights

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General Resources

The following is a list of general resources that prove to be useful and cover many different domains:

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GIT

Name	Description / Explanation
GIT free book	Free comprehensive book from APress on GIT
Git Cheat Sheet	Quick reference
GitHub search	An explanation has to how to construct searches that will look inside of the code and across multiple modules. For example org:oracle-devrel extension:tf in:file template_file Search for references to template_file in all files with the terraform extension for the Oracle devrel repositories.
OpenGitOps	CNCF governed project to define best practises and tools to support the idea of GitOps

API

Name	Description / Explanation
Nordic APIs	Free comprehensive book from APress on GIT
API Evangelist	Quick reference
goodAPI	Website for consultants – with good blog and related tech resources for APIs
Open API Spec visualization tool	Excellent visualization tool for the Open API Specifications from API Handyman
API Handyman	This is the apps and service side of the organization that lead to the Swagger API specification, which became OAS v2. IMHO, the tooling is not as usable as Apiary
OWASP	In addition to a great tool, blog, and links to API Handyman‘s book published through Manning
Apiary	This is the apps and service side of the organization that lead to the Swagger API specification, which became OAS v2. IMHO, the tooling is not as usable as Apiary
Swagger Hub	Catalog of API tools and their compatibility with different versions of the standards.
API Friends
API Academy	API design and mocking portal. Two versions, one is free for all, and the other costs and provides a range of features. Apiary supports Open API Specification (OAS) and API Blueprint, although Oracle, who owns Apiary, focuses on the more dominant OAS
API Tools	This is the apps and service side of the organization that lead to the Swagger API specification, which became OAS v2. IMHO, the tooling is not as usable as Apiary
AsyncAPI	Excellent information resources, including online training resources.
APIcurio	Registry of schemas for Open and AsyncAPIs
GraphQL	GraphQL Spec
gRPC	Spec and tooling for the API standard donated to CNCF by Google
Webhooks Foundation

Oracle Cloud

go here for Oracle’s owned content.

Name	Description / Explanation
Oracle Integration Cloud	Linked to the book for Packt and tracks all the new community content on the use of OIC
OCI Architecture Best Practices	Oracle recommends a set of best practices to design and operate cloud topologies that deliver the maximum business value.
OraWorld	Magazine linked to DOAG (user group) (A journal that I have written for)
Red Thunder Blog	Oracle team based in Australia and New Zealand publishing good articles around Oracle tech such as integration AI/ML
AMIS Oracle Blog	Home of an Oracle partner with a very active blogging team sharing lots of useful tech insights.
Foggy Kitchen	Site contributed to by Luke Martin Feldman (aka Martin Linxfeld) – Oracle Terraform guru
Oracle Terraform Provider doc	Terraform provider documentation

Development Knowledge Bases

Name	Description / Explanation
CNCF	Cloud Native Computing Foundation – home of many of the leading cloud-related open source projects from K8s onwards
Artifact Hub — CNCF repositories	From Helm Charts to prebuilt Keda configurations
CI/CD Foundation	Another child organization of the Linux Foundation (like CNCF) but covering technologies supporting continuous integration and delivery.
Container Journal
Chris Richardson’s Micerservices.io	Exceptional book covering many design patterns for Microservice style development.
ThoughtWorks Tech Insights
Confluent (Kafka)	see below
DZone (Ref Cardz)	Cloud Native Computing Foundation – home of many of the leading cloud-related open-source projects from K8s onwards
DevOps-Research	Reports on the adoption of DevOps, performance measurement, etc., such as DORA. More on DORA here.
Catalog of free programming language ebooks	Catalog of free programming books. The books can vary in detail, quality and age. But the breadth makes it worthwhile checking out
MDN	Mozilla Developer Network – lots of resource on Web twech from APIs to HTTPS
Regex101	multi language REGEX online validation tool

Dev Tools

Name	Description / Explanation
Everything cURL	Reference for using the CURL CLI tool
Confluent (Kafka)	see below
Kubectl QuickRef	Two-page quick ref to the core kubectl commands
VS Code	Light weight polyglot IDE
GitKraken	Excellent GIT tool
Jenkins	Jenkins Pipeline best practices etc
tfenv	Lightweight polyglot IDE
Theia	Open-Source foundation to various editors including VS Code
Open Lens	Community/open-source version of Lens (commercial) – code here, binary here
Fluentd & Fluentbit
OpenTelemetry (OTel)	OpenTelemetry documentation
JQ (JSON Commanf Line Processor)	Commandline tool for rendering and manipulating JSON from simple pretty print and more

Development Platform Resources

Name	Description
Name	Description / Explination
KubeByExample	Tutorials etc., for K8s
Prometheus
Grafana

OS Resources

Name	Description
TecMint	Includes some decent in-depth articles about Linux – for example, this view of what the different Linux root folders are meant for.

Development Thought Leaders

Name	Description / Explanation
Chris Richardson’s Micerservices.io	Exceptional book covering many design patterns for Microservice style development.
Neal Ford	Another thought leader with connections to ThoughtWorks. Focus on more architectural aspects.
Sam Newman
Martin Fowler	Leading thinker around modern development techniques, including microservices. Name used on a series of very good Prentice Hall books covering a range of topics such as service design. Technical leader at ThoughtWorks.
Kin Lane	API Evangelist

Development Language Resources

Name	Description / Explanation
You don’t know JS yet	guide to Java Script
Python Language Reference	The definitive Language reference.
W3C Schools	Excellent quick reference resources to multiple languages, including JavaScript and Python. Ideal for helping youngsters get coding as well.
Groovy	Scripting version of Java with convenience libraries to make things even easier to use.
Node JS	Official node documentation e.g.,, use of import and export declarations
Nodejs.dev/learn	More tutorial-centric content
PL/SQL Dev Stds	Development standards for PL/SQL
Lua	Language for the extension for Nginx, used by Fluentbit, etc. Additional education resource here

Paradigms, Principles & Architectural Philosophy

Name	Description / Explanation
12 Factor App	Set of development and design principles for modern app development
Agile Manifesto	Simple set of positioning statements that define Agile.
TOGAF	The most dominant architectural framework. Large and complex with additions to fit with Agile and other influencing ways of working.
SAFe

Patterns & Integration

Name	Description / Explanation
Enterprise Integration Patterns (Gregor Hohpe)	Reference information showing the Integration Patterns detailed in the definitive bible Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf
Thomas Erl (Arcitura)	Thomas Erl is the lead author of a set of excellent reference patterns books covering SOA, cloud, security, etc
Confluent/Kafka	confluent is the company behind the development of Apache Kafka and the commercially supported version.
Microservices.io	Chris Richardson’s summary of his Microservice Patterns book
Martin Fowler’s Enterprise Application Architecture	Martin Fowler’s Further Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Gang of Four	Famous Gang of Four Design patterns etc. It can also be found on Wikipedia
Microsoft’s Architecture Resources	Microsoft’s architecture resources, whilst referencing Azure, the majority of the content applies anywhere
J2EE Patterns	Classic J2EE patterns
Service Design Patterns	Service Design Patterns by Robert Daigneau, with Ian Robinson (part of the Martin Fowler Signature Series)
Hybrid & MultiCloud Patterns	Patterns include handling Hybrid use cases
Terraform development patterns	A viewpoint on Terraform development patterns. Useful as it illustrates a journey for maturing the way Terraform is managed. It is a presentation rather than a repository of patterns.

UI/UX

Name	Description / Explanation
https://www.interaction-design.org/	A source of both training and freely available guidance documentation.
Don Norman	a major thought leader in usability, with excellent books on the subject. Part of the Nielsen Norman group (NNg)
Nielsen Norman Group	regular blogs on various usability techniques and best practices. Including an annual assessment of good and bad websites to illustrate recommended practices.
Alan Cooper (Designit)	Leading expert on User eXperience, author of the About Face books. Very accessible UI/UX material.

Softskills

Name	Description / Explanation
Enterprisers Project	A website run by RedHat, but regular leadership articles and monthly release of HBR articles.
Harvard Business Review (HBR)	A lot of the content is subscription/paywall. But some content is free. Good source of thinking about organization and people skills resources.
Draft.Dev Blog

Publisher Free Content

Name	Description / Explanation
Manning	free ebooks, the majority are an aggregation of chapters from various books
Packt	free ebook scheme releasing different titles regularly along with a core set of free titles
Apress	Pro GIT, InfoSec Handbook, etc
EBook Foundation	Free developer and related ebooks.
RedHat sponsored ebooks	also, RedHat sponsors Havard Biz Review articles for free in the Harvard Business Review at the EnterpriserProject site
Rational Cybersecurity for Business The Security Leaders’ Guide to Business Alignment	APress book that tackles security from a business lead viewpoint. Addresses the challenges of organizational engagement, support, etc.

Security

Name	Description / Explanation
OWASP (Top 10)	Open Web Application Security Project. Ideal developer resource on security includes Top 10 common mistakes guidance.
Center for Internet Security	The ideal reference for demonstrating good security compliance for deliverables covering not just software but also security processes.
SANS Institute	Centre for security thought leadership. Produces newsletter and a lot of deep security material.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)	Excellent source of technical recommendations
DLAPiper	Law firm with some great free resources to help understand legal requirements around the world for things like data protection.

Call for Papers

Where to register to hear for call for paper conference submissions

Name	Description / Explanation
PaperCall	announcement and news aggregation
SeeCFP
CFP Land
Sessionize	site for submitting papers and conferences to be listed.
confs.tech	CFP announcements, news aggregation
Oracle Events Tracker
ClocWise	Tracker for Oracle user group conferences.

SEO

Name	Description / Explination
Search Engine Optimization Guide

Sources of General Tech Insights

Name	Description / Explanation
Internet Archive	Stats and trends on technologies being used to implement the internet e.g., versions of HTTP use, etc
OpenSource Guide	Views on different aspects of delivering an open-source product, from metrics to licensing
Digital Practitioner Book of Knowledge	Views on different aspects of delivering an open-source product from metrics to licensing
Software Assurance Maturity Model	Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) is an open framework to help organizations formulate and implement a strategy for software security that is tailored to the specific risks facing the organization
ByteByteGo Blog	lots of really handy short tech summary resources. For example SQL summary, DevOps vs SRE vs Platform Engineering