Training Materials

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

—Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

This is a curated list of related reading materials, free training, workshops, and similar resources, with an emphasis on cloud infrastructure in clinical research settings.

Foundations

• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

• Git Immersion

• DevOps with Docker

• DevOps with Kubernetes

• Test-Driven Development

• Deep Dive into Modern Web Development

• Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) Open Courseware

Project Management

• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) Exam Content Outline

• Running Agile projects in GitHub Projects

• Scrum vs Kanban: Key Differences in Project Management Methodologies

• Running a Kanban Standup Meeting

• Use Cases vs. User Stories: How They Differ and When to Use Them

Version Control

• Pro Git (2nd. ed.)

• Git cheat sheet, extended edition

• Confusing git terminology

• Git Happens

• Oh My Git!

• A Plumber’s Guide to Git

• Git Feature Branch Workflow, also known as trunk-based development or topic branches

Cloud Computing

• Get Good with GitOps

• Workflows for GitOps deployments

• Deploy to multiple environments from a single GitHub Actions workflow

• One-click deploys to multiple environments using GitHub Actions

• The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes

• Recommended architectures for PostgreSQL in Kubernetes

• AWS Lambda - CI/CD with AWS SAM, CodePipeline & CloudFormation

• Learn Linux TV: Getting started with Ansible

• Learn Linux TV: Proxmox Full Course

• Disaster Recovery on AWS

Information Security

• OpenSecurityTraining2

• OWASP HTTP Headers Cheat Sheet

• Computer Security (CS 161 textbook)

• Living off the land

• What is OpenID Connect

• An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect (OIDC)

• Mapping Microsoft technology and guidance to the Adaptive Access capability in the Zero Trust Reference Model

• The SOC2 Starting Seven

• SOC2: The Screenshots Will Continue Until Security Improves, plus these Hacker News comments: [1], [2], [3]

Programming

• Think Python (3rd. Ed.)

• Learn TLA+ (Temporal Logic of Actions), related Hacker News thread on formal methods

• How we teach front-end development using vanilla JS

• What Are Capabilities?

• Secure Software Development Framework v1.1

Test-driven Development

• Selenium WebDriver with Python

• Automated UI Testing with Selenium & PyTest, supporting materials

• Unit Testing AWS Lambda with Python and Mock AWS Services Using Moto, supplementary materials

• Same Pytest fixtures with different scopes

Miscellaneous

• Designing Conference Posters

• A well laid out vi cheat sheet

• Everything you wanted to know about DNS

• HPC Ecosystems OpenHPC 2.x Training Guide