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.
Intro General Resources GIT API Oracle Cloud Development Dev Tools Development Thought Leaders Development Language Resources Paradigms, Principles & Architectural Philosophy Patterns & Integration UI/UX Softskills Publisher Free Content Security Call for Papers Sources of General Tech Insights General Resources
The following is a list of general resources that prove to be useful and cover many different domains:
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
All things GIT related API
Name Description / Explanation 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 targetted to 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 owns Apiary are focussing on the more dominant OAS Swagger Hub 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 API Friends API Academy Excellent information resources including online training resources. API Tools Catalogue of API tools and there compatibility to different versions of the standards.
All things API related Oracle Cloud
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. PaaS Community Oracle PaaS community website supported by Jürgen Kress – Oracle Product Management. Primarily focussed on OIC, Visual Builder, and Digital Assistant Developer Community Development-based resources focus on languages rather than the native platform. Architecture Center Prebuilt OCI Terraform solutions, guidance, best practices, etc. 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 tfenv Terraform Environment switching utility. allows you to swap versions of Terraform etc. 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.
All things Oracle Cloud related Development
All things Development related All things Development related 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
All things Development related Development Language Resources
All things Coding related 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
All things Architecture & Principles Patterns & Integration
All things Integration related 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.
All things Usability related 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
All things Soft skills related 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 RedHat sponsored ebooks also, RedHat sponsors Havard Biz Review articles for free in the Harvard Business Review at the EnterpriserProject site
All things Book related 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.
All things Conference related Call for Papers
Where to register to hear for call for paper conference submissions
All things Conference related 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
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