Bookmarks

A curated collection of resources I find valuable for platform engineering, DevOps, cloud architecture, and systems administration.

Infrastructure & Cloud

Kubernetes

• Kubernetes Documentation - Official K8s docs
• Kubernetes the Hard Way - Kelsey Hightower's guide
• CNCF Landscape - Cloud native ecosystem overview
• Awesome Kubernetes - Curated K8s resources
• k9s - Terminal UI for Kubernetes
• Lens - Kubernetes IDE

AWS

• AWS Documentation - Official AWS docs
• AWS Well-Architected - Best practices framework
• CDK Patterns - AWS CDK design patterns
• AWS Samples - Official code samples
• Last Week in AWS - Newsletter by Corey Quinn

Terraform

• Terraform Registry - Modules and providers
• Terraform Best Practices - Community guide
• Terragrunt - Terraform wrapper
• Atlantis - Terraform Pull Request automation

DevOps & CI/CD

GitOps

• Argo CD - Declarative GitOps for K8s
• Flux - GitOps toolkit
• GitOps Principles - OpenGitOps standards

CI/CD Platforms

• GitLab CI Documentation - GitLab CI/CD
• Jenkins Documentation - Jenkins pipeline docs
• GitHub Actions - GitHub's CI/CD

Containers

• Docker Documentation - Official Docker docs
• Podman - Daemonless container engine
• Containerd - Container runtime
• BuildKit - Next-gen build toolkit

Observability

Monitoring

• Prometheus Documentation - Metrics and alerting
• Grafana Documentation - Visualization
• VictoriaMetrics - High-performance TSDB
• Netdata - Real-time monitoring

Logging

• Loki Documentation - Log aggregation
• Elastic Stack - ELK documentation
• FluentBit - Log processor

Tracing

• Jaeger Documentation - Distributed tracing
• OpenTelemetry - Observability framework
• Zipkin - Distributed tracing system

Security

Vulnerability Scanning

• Trivy - Container vulnerability scanner
• Grype - Vulnerability scanner
• OWASP - Web application security

Network Security

• WireGuard - Modern VPN protocol
• Teleport - Secure infrastructure access
• HashiCorp Vault - Secrets management

Compliance

• CIS Benchmarks - Security benchmarks
• NIST Cybersecurity - Framework

Programming

Go

• Go Documentation - Official docs
• Effective Go - Writing idiomatic Go
• Go by Example - Hands-on introduction
• Awesome Go - Curated Go packages

TypeScript/JavaScript

• TypeScript Handbook - Official guide
• Node.js Documentation - Node.js docs
• Bun Documentation - Bun runtime

Rust

• The Rust Book - Official Rust book
• Rust by Example - Learn by doing
• Awesome Rust - Curated resources

Linux & Systems

Distributions

• Arch Wiki - Comprehensive Linux docs
• Debian Documentation - Debian resources
• Alpine Linux - Minimal Linux

System Administration

• Linux Performance - Brendan Gregg's guide
• Systemd Documentation - Init system docs
• ZFS Documentation - OpenZFS docs

Shell & Scripting

• Bash Guide - Bash scripting
• ShellCheck - Shell script linter
• Nushell Documentation - Modern shell

Databases

PostgreSQL

• PostgreSQL Documentation - Official docs
• PostgreSQL Wiki - Community knowledge
• pgTune - Configuration calculator

Other Databases

• MySQL Documentation - MySQL docs
• MongoDB Documentation - MongoDB docs
• Redis Documentation - Redis docs
• DuckDB Documentation - Analytical database

Learning Resources

Books (Free)

• Site Reliability Engineering - Google SRE Book
• The Site Reliability Workbook - Practical SRE
• Building Secure & Reliable Systems - Security + SRE
• Software Engineering at Google - Engineering practices

Newsletters

• DevOps Weekly - Weekly DevOps news
• SRE Weekly - Site reliability news
• Kubernetes Weekly - K8s news

Podcasts

• Changelog - Software development
• Ship It - DevOps and infrastructure
• Kubernetes Podcast - K8s from Google

Tools I Use Daily

Terminal

• Neovim - Text editor
• tmux - Terminal multiplexer
• ripgrep - Fast search
• fd - Fast find alternative
• bat - Better cat
• exa/eza - Better ls

Git

• lazygit - Terminal Git UI
• delta - Better diff viewer
• gh - GitHub CLI

This list is continuously updated as I discover new resources.