New Knowledge: Reading list - IT Books

by Jan Holbo Rasmussen · 2 min read
New Knowledge: Reading list - IT Books
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It is imperative to keep up with new knowledge in the IT business, whether it is networking, programming, AI or other areas. The following is a list of books that I have purchased and placed on my reading list. They are mainly programming books on different programming languages and frameworks. But there are also a few others on the list.

As I go through the list and complete reading each book, I will publish a review on the book. When a review is available, it will be linked here as well.

More books will be added over time.

Development

Learning Git, A Skoulikari (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2023)

Web development

A Pythonic Adventure, P Anni(Manning, 2023)

FastAPI, B Lubanovic (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2023)

DevOps

Ansible: Up & Running 3rd ed, B Meijer L Hochstein & R Moser (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2022)

Docker: Up & Running 3rd ed, S P Kane & K Matthias (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2023)

Kubernetes: Up & Running 3rd ed, Burns et al (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2022)

Learning DevSecOps, S Suehring (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2024)

Learning GitHub Actions, B Laster (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2023)

Python for DevOps, N. Gift et al (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2020)

Terraform: Up and Running 3rd ed, Y Brikman (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2022)

Networks

Network Programmability & Automation 2nd ed, M Oswalt et al (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2023)

Security

Web Application Security 2nd ed, Hoffman (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2024)

System Administration

Efficient Linux at the Command Line, D J Barrett (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2022)

Learning Modern Linux, M Hausenblas (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2022)

Linux Pocket Guide 4th ed, D J Barrett  (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2022)

Practical Linux System Administration, K Hess (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2023)

Wish list

Clean Architectures in Python, L Giordani (Digital Cat Books)

Architecture Patterns with Python, H J W Percival & B Gregory (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly)

Microservice APIs, J H Peralta  (Manning)

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