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
7. Dev Tools
8. Development Thought Leaders
9. Development Language Resources
10. Paradigms, Principles & Architectural Philosophy
11. Patterns & Integration
12. UI/UX
13. Softskills
14. Publisher Free Content
15. Security
16. Call for Papers

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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 / Explination
GIT free book	Free comprehensive book from APress on GIT
Git Cheat Sheet	Quick reference

API

Name	Description / Explination
Nordic APIs	Free comprehensive book from APress on GIT
API Evangelist	Quick reference
Open API Spec visualization tool	Excellent visualization tool for the Open API Specifications from API Handyman
API Handyman	In addition to a great tool, blog and links to API Handyman‘s book published through Manning
OWASP	Open Web Application Security Project. Initiative for providing guidance on web and web application security targets towards the developer community. Most valuable assets include the Top 10 vulnerabilities information and the Zap test tool. The top 10s cover both apps and APIs
Apiary	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 own Apiary are focussing on the more dominant OAS
Swagger Hub	This is the apps and service side to the organization that lead to the Swagger API specification which became OAS v2. IMHO the tooling is not as usable as Apiary
API Friends
API Academy	Excellent information resource including online training resources.

Oracle Cloud

Name	Description / Explination
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.
PaaS Community	Oracle PaaS community website supported by Jürgen Kress – Oracle Product Management. Primarily focussed on OIC, Visual Builder and Digital Assistant
Developer Community
Architecture Center
Tutorials, Labs etc
Oracle A-Team	Oracle ‘gurus’ sharing tricks insights, accelerators etc
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
Tech Trantor
AMIS Oracle Blog	Home of an Oracle partner with a very active blogging team sharing lots of useful tech insights.
Oracle Groundbreakers (unofficial)	Collection of blog contributions from Oracle Groundbreakers (Oracle Aces specializing in OCI cloud-native development – this may change name of tail off as the Groundbreakers name is going to become defunct)
Todd Sharp	part of the developer relations organization within Oracle.
Foggy Kitchen	Site contributed to by Luke Martin Feldman (aka Martin Linxfeld) – Oracle Terraform guru
Oracle Terraform Provider doc	Terraform provider documentation

Development

Name	Description / Explination
CNCF	Cloud Native Computing Foundation – home of many of the leading cloud-related open source projects from K8s onwards
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)	Articles on tech use. Most valuable are the RefCards which are great reminders of utilities/language syntaxes etc
DevOps-Research	Reports on the adoption of DevOps, performance measurement, etc such as DORA. More on DORA here.

Dev Tools

Name	Description / Explination
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

Development Thought Leaders

Name	Description / Explination
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 / Explination
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

Paradigms, Principles & Architectural Philosophy

Name	Description / Explination
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 / Explination
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 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 including handling Hybrid use cases

UI/UX

Name	Description / Explination
https://www.interaction-design.org/
Don Norman	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 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 / Explination
Enterprisers Project	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.

Publisher Free Content

Name	Description / Explination
Manning	free ebooks, majority are an agregation 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
RedHat sponsored ebooks	also, RedHat sponsors Havard Biz Review articles for free into the Harvard Business Review at the EnterpriserProject site

Security

Name	Description / Explination
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.

Call for Papers

Where to register to hear for call for paper conference submissions

Name	Description / Explination
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.