intltechventures.blogspot.com: 2015-08-29 Saturday - Suggestions for Developer Continued Self-Education

This week I prepared a list of suggestions for an engineering group - on some free online resources that might be of interest to those who wish to invest some time in their own continuing self-education. Perhaps others might find these of interest as well:

The AWS tutorials are free – and the examples and documentation is quite extensive

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/awsgsg-intro/gsg-aws-tutorials.html

The Seattle AWS Architects & Engineers meet-up is organized by a friend of mine, Teri Radichel – and most sessions are __very__ informative

http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-AWS-Architects-Engineers/

Thomas Erl’s SOAPatterns.org web site provides a very good (and free) overview of much of his content

http://www.soapatterns.org/

Stanford’s Video Lecture series on Startup Engineering has some very good free content

https://class.coursera.org/startup-001/lecture

This Forbes article from last year has quite a few suggested links to free online courses that are specific to Cloud Computing

http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2014/07/27/roundup-of-free-cloud-computing-online-courses-midyear-update/

The MIT Open Course Ware series (offered through the Sloan School of Management) has a good course on ‘Management of Services: Concepts, Design, and Delivery’

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-768-management-of-services-concepts-design-and-delivery-fall-2010/

One of the best sources of free technical information (in particular, for tracking leading edge developments) is slideshare

http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=cloud+computing

In particular, I am almost always __very_- impressed by the decks prepared by the folks at Netflix and Etsy

http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=netflix&ud=any&ft=all&lang=**&sort=

http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=etsy+&ud=any&ft=all&lang=**&sort=

One of the best values for a professional programmer is a personal professional subscription to Safari ($39/month)

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/pricing/

There is a tremendous amount of valuable knowledge and expertise in the IBM Cloud Computing Redbooks

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/portals/cloud

I also personally find the following YouTube channels to be very informative:

https://www.youtube.com/user/InfoQVideos/videos?sort=dd&shelf_id=3&view=0