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by jake_peralta_B99

5 months ago

Software Engineering Resources Recommendations

Few people asked me for my recommendations on Tech resources - I'll divide across following sections - 1. CS Fundamentals - Its a recommended flow that you should know beyond knowing how to code. Follow this - https://teachyourselfcs.com/ 2. DSA - a) https://neetcode.io - Its blind 150 is awesome. Its paid courses are also decent b) CLRS book (How can we leave that?) 3. System Design resources - a) System Design interview Vol 1 and 2 - Alex Xu OR you can take annual subscription of their website - https://bytebytego.com b) The OG book - DDIA - this is a must read and has very high ROI 4. Backend Engineering - - Learning Backend development like a curriculum - https://boot.dev - Coding challenges a) For beginners to experienced - https://codingchallenges.fyi/challenges/intro b) For experienced folks - (codecrafters.io) https://app.codecrafters.io/r/adorable-eagle-556273 (Referral) 5. Software Engineering - What Software Engineering truly is? - Software Engineering at Google Book(Oreilly) 6. DevOps / AWS - a) AWS course - https://learn.cantrill.io/ - To learn more in depth than just passing certifications b) Other DevOps resources - kodekloud.com (all devops tools, especially kubernetes ones are good) c) What SRE truly is? - Site Reliability Engineering book (Oreilly) 7. Promotions / Impact / Growing in the role - a) JoinTaro - Website where you get answers to your questions about promotions, impact etc. https://www.jointaro.com/r/sarvajs408/ - Check the founders posts on linkedin on what to look for b) Software Engineering Handbook by Gergely 7. Misc / Good to read - a) Head first series by Oreilly publication (Design Patterns, OOAD) b) Chaos Engineering (Oreilly) If you guys think we can add more things, where you know the resources are absolute best to be recommended for the return on investment(time, money) they give, please do drop in your recommendations in the comments

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

I can't change the post now, took lot of efforts to put everything in, please do let me know if anything is unclear, would be happy to explain it in the comments.

Bebo

Stealth

5 months ago

What is unclear is why you are unemployed still if you have so much gyaan

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

Hmm, knew there would be someone who would be so focused on what I am not doing. I am unemployed as I left my cushy job to switch to a different domain. This is my career break cum study time to get into Backend. Does that answer your question?

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shpinq

US Based MNC, India location

5 months ago

What is DDIA?

Infinity

Oracle

5 months ago

Designing data intensive applications

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

Apologies, I should've explained in the post. It's a book by name - Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Klepmann

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RespawnNow

US Based MNC, India location

5 months ago

What is CLRS book?

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

Introduction to algorithms book by 4 authors whose initials start with C, L, R, S Google it, you should be able to find it

RespawnNow

US Based MNC, India location

5 months ago

Thank u bro

BakshiBabu

Accenture

5 months ago

Thanks @jake_peralta_B99 for your recommendations, really appreciate your efforts. 🙏. It's concise and sorted and direct to the point.

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

My pleasure!

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

Please help amplify this post🙏. I hope if more people chime in, they can recommend additional resources

shpinq

US Based MNC, India location

5 months ago

For System Design, is there any shorter list of topics to study? Like for example, Caching, Load Balancing, Login Security (different mechanism employed) etc. Anywhere I can just find this kind of short 2-3 page list, which I can then read about independently, or ignore if I already know.

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

There's no shortcut way imo. But, for a more streamlined study, you can checkout github repo called "system Design primer". That should help you out with whatever you are looking for

shpinq

US Based MNC, India location

5 months ago

Thanks, will check that out

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NameNotFound

6sense

5 months ago

@jake_peralta_B99 what do you suggest is the proper way to consume DDIA?

leery_dev

Chubb

5 months ago

would like to know this as well...since I'm a beginner in the industry, I keep falling off the book at times

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

1 way is just go through the content serially and maybe possibly dig deeper or search online on specific chapters you need more clarity with. I am sure more people who have read this book must've posted content Another is form a group passionate about understanding system Design (like a book club). Keep a weekly target say to complete 1 chapter. You all get on a call weekly once and debate and discuss what you understood from it. There's a possibility to learn something new or a different perspective there

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Hustler22

TCS

5 months ago

Add Hussain Naseer's courses for backend engineering.

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

Why do you recommend it? Is the ROI good? How different is it from other creators out there. Also, I can't edit the post now, but you can convince people of it using the comments here ofc

leery_dev

Chubb

5 months ago

I mean it can be a good resource for people who might not want to read and generally he tries to create a dialogue and focus on concept building when he explains something

LegalizeSlavery

Deloitte

5 months ago

Copied this post in my KeepNotes, wanted some material to upskill and go for FAANG Thanks a ton man ! God bless you

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

Thank you so much for your kind words. Can you please help spread the word? I'd want more people to view this, I am sure there will be more awesome recommendations from OG people of GV

The_Batman

Oracle

5 months ago

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

Befitting response😂

UpsetLadle89

Stealth

5 months ago

Top tier resources. Solid list

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

Please help amplify this post🙏. I hope if more people chime in, they can recommend additional resources

Erlich

Fintech Startup

5 months ago

Top tier. Appreciated!

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

Thank you🙏. Please help spread the word. I feel more people can contribute to the existing recommendations

Humbled_engineer

Mercedes-Benz Group

5 months ago

Thank you for your recommendations!

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

🙏

FireHawk

Javis

5 months ago

Currently I’m reading DDIA and making notes also

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

❤️

cursedpinacolada

Student

5 months ago

Coming to AWS certifications, are those really required? Like has anyone seen a difference before and after certification on resume in terms of shortlisting and interviews?

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

Required? Not really! And I didn't suggest those resources for certifications. I suggested bcoz it's a good resource to learn about AWS That being said, in terms of certifications, it's a good to have. If you have 2 equal candidates, one with certifications could be preferred to get shortlisted. Once shortlisted, it doesn't make a damn difference

CuriousGuy

Sapient

5 months ago

JoinTaro is 60 USD per month. It would be stupidity of the highest order to sign up there just to ask questions. Thank you for the effort in making this list but if one searches well, they can find some better resources than what are suggested

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

If you have put efforts and searched for it, please do share. If you think there are better resources, please be my guest and share it across. My post is for the community, your recommendations would be as well. Go ahead!

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

It ain't stupidity in my opinion. There are enough people from India in that community bcoz they find value in it. And it's not just for questions, if you go through posts from the founders and the kind of content there is, you'd understand. Ofc all these resources are expensive since they cater to US.

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ranajimaafkarna

TCS

5 months ago

Anything about QA/ automation testing

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

Apologies, my next thing in life to do is Backend, hence I poured my time and effort into curating it

Heya

Student

5 months ago

Operating Systems: Three easy pieces. Computer Networks: A Top-Down Approach

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

?? The books for CS fundamentals are covered in section 1

Heya

Student

5 months ago

I checked now

Doc

Cisco

5 months ago

boot.dev is so underrated <3

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

Ikr

BottomFragger

Adobe

5 months ago

Thanks mate, appreciate your efforts :))

jake_peralta_B99

Unemployed

5 months ago

Thank you🙏

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