Books to read:

• Jenkins 2. Up and running
• Spring Security in Action
• Gradle Effective Implementations Guide
• Kafka in Action
• Testing Web APIs
• Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
• Kafka: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
• Kafka Streams in Action
• Java Concurrency in Practice
• Lucene in Action, Second Edition: Covers Apache Lucene 3.0 2nd Edition
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
• Java Performance: In-Depth Advice for Tuning and Programming Java 8, 11, and Beyond 2nd Edition
• Prometheus: Up & Running
• Algorithhms 4th Edition by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
• Juint in Action. Third Edition
• Kubernetes Native Microservices with Quarkus, and MicroProfile
• OpenShift in Action
• Terraform in Action
• Vert.x in Action
• PostgreSQL: Up and Running
• Introducing Maven
• Mastering Kafka Streams and ksqlDB
• Practical Vavr
• OpenShift in Action
• Neo4j in Action
• GraphQL in Action
• Redis in Action
• MongoDB in Action, Second Edition
• Istio in Action
• Rust in Action
• Production Kubernetes: Building Successful Application Platforms
• Go Programming Language, The (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
• https://kube.academy/
• kubectl: Command-Line Kubernetes in a Nutshell

Ideas to build:

• CDC full flow locally;
  • Debezium snapshots;
• Build my own simple SQL database;
• Build my own simple cache database;
• Build my own simple Queue.
• Build my own ZIP parser. Helper link