Curated
Resources
Tools, documentation, and references I return to regularly as a software engineer.
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS Documentation →
The official AWS docs—still the best reference for EKS, IAM, VPC, and the full service catalog.
Terraform Registry →
Official provider documentation and module registry. Indispensable for infrastructure-as-code work.
Kubernetes Documentation →
From concepts to API reference—covers everything from Pods to Operators.
Helm Charts →
The Kubernetes package manager. Useful for deploying complex workloads like OTel Collectors and Datadog agents.
Observability
OpenTelemetry Documentation →
The definitive guide to instrumenting services with OTel—SDKs, Collector configuration, and exporters.
Datadog Documentation →
Reference for Datadog agents, APM, log pipelines, and dashboards.
Distributed Systems Observability (O'Reilly) →
A short but dense book by Cindy Sridharan covering logging, metrics, tracing, and debugging at scale.
Golang
Effective Go →
The canonical guide for writing idiomatic Go code. Required reading before contributing to any Go codebase.
Go Standard Library →
pkg.go.dev — searchable docs for the Go standard library and all public packages.
100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them →
A practical book covering common pitfalls in Go codebases, from goroutine leaks to interface misuse.
TypeScript & Node.js
TypeScript Handbook →
The official TypeScript reference. The section on utility types alone is worth bookmarking.
Node.js Documentation →
API docs for Node.js core modules—streams, fs, http, and more.
Next.js Documentation →
Official docs for Next.js App Router, Server Components, and deployment configuration.
Career & Engineering Craft
The Staff Engineer's Path →
Tanya Reilly's book on navigating technical leadership beyond senior engineer—great framing for large scope work.
System Design Interview (Alex Xu) →
Practical walkthroughs of distributed system design problems. Useful mental models for capacity planning and scalability.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide →
The guide that helped prepare for the SAA-C03. Good breadth coverage of AWS services and architecture patterns.