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Advanced Curriculum For The Software Craftsman

This document is intended as a guidance for new developers joining our teams at FLYERALARM. Because we think it might help others as well we open-sourced it. If you know something that's missing feel free to send us a Pull-Request.

Basics

• How The Web Works
• HTTP on Wikipedia
• What Happens When
• What to learn next
• An Introduction To HTTP Basics
• Choosing an HTTP Status Code — Stop Making It Hard
• TCP/IP Protocol Fundamentals Explained with a Diagram
• Google Developer Training For The Web
• Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation
• Algorithms, Data Structures, and Design Patterns for Self-Taught Developers
• HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know
• An Introduction to Networking Terminology, Interfaces, and Protocols
• How Browser Caching Works
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets
• What Every Developer Should Know About Time

Design And Architecture Of Software

• Clean Code
• DesignPatternsPHP
• What's a design pattern?
• All the cool kids...
• 18 must-watch PHP architecture talks
• Object Design Style Guide
• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Domain Driven Design
• Domain-Driven Transformation
• CQRS and Event Sourcing
• Your Code as a Crime Scene
• Awesome API
• An introduction to APIs
• Architectural Katas

PHP

• PHP The Right Way
• PHP The Wrong Way
• A response to PHP The Wrong Way
• PHP Framework Interoperability Group
• PSR - PHP Standard Recommendation
• PHP Library Discovery
• PHP Logging Basics
• Awesome PHP (A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things)
• Reference - What does this error mean in PHP?

Kotlin

• Resources To Learn Kotlin The Right Way
• Programming Kotlin by Venkat Subramaniam
• Awesome Kotlin
• Mastering Kotlin standard functions: run, with, let, also and apply
• KotlinConf 2018 - Kotlin Coroutines in Practice by Roman Elizarov
• Ktor: Web backend framework for Kotlin. Easy to use, fun and asynchronous.

JavaScript & Frontend

• JS for Cats
• JavaScript for impatient programmers
• You don't know JS
• Eloquent Javascript
• Essential Javascript Patterns
• MDN - Mozilla Developer Network
• CSS-Tricks
• Netflix UI Engineers Youtube Channel
• Don't make me think - Web Usability

Tools

• git
• Atlassian git Tutorials
• Interactive git Cheatsheet
• Composer - Dependency Manager For PHP
• Packagist - The PHP Package Repository
• Gradle Guide
• PHPStan
• PHPUnit
• Introduction to PHP Unit
• A Beginner's Guide to npm

Environment

• Basic UNIX commands
• Explain Shell - Let it explain you what's going on
• Effective DevOps
• Docker Docs
• Docker Swarms Introduction
• What is Kubernetes
• Request routing with Traefik
• How to write Ansible Playbooks
• Ansible Docs
• Artifactory User Guide

Persistence

• SQL Performance Explained - Short and useful book about SQL performance for developers
• Use the index, Luke - a guide to database performance for developers
• The Little Redis Book

Monitoring & Alerting

• How to monitor system metrics with the TICK stack - Can also be used for gathering business metrics
• How to setup & use Icinga2
• Using InfluxDB with Grafana
• Grafana Docs
• InfluxDB Docs

Apache Kafka

• Kafka as a Platform: the Ecosystem from the Ground Up
• Apache Kafka in a Nutshell
• Why Avro for Kafka Data?
• Deal with Failure in an Event-Driven System

Processes & Culture

• The Agile Manifesto
• Agile Retrospectives
• The Phoenix Project
• Team Geek - A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others

Information Security

• OWASP - Open Web Application Security Project
• A Gentle Introduction to Application Security
• Juice Shop - A vulnerable web app to play around

Best Practices

• The Best Code is No Code At All
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• The Clean Coder
• Simple Made Easy
• A Philosophy of Software Design
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• The full stackoverflow developer
• Measure anything, measure everything
• Go to a local user group
• Read open-source code on GitHub
• Never stop building stuff

On a side note: We are searching for talented people to join our various teams of developers in multiple locations