My learning path for 2018

Summary

Books
Courses
Practice

Books

Currently I am in a search for advanced books on node.js and javascript, the market is full of learning node.js books with the first 4 chapters on how to install node on mac, windows and linux, and the last 4 to create a hello world app.

My starting choice for 2018:

Node Cookbook - Third Edition: Actionable solutions for the full spectrum of Node.js 8 development - this book has good recommendations on multiple sites and also covers advanced topics on node.js
Node.js Design Patterns by Mario Casciaro - i'v read this book once, but is extremely super strong and didn't get all the examples so need to read it once more.
Node.js for Embedded Systems: Using Web Technologies to Build Connected Devices 1st Edition by Patrick Mulder - IoT it is a hot trend want to be able to satisfy the market if needed.
Professional JavaScript for Web Developers 4th Edition by Matt Frisbie - this one was recommended by a strong javascript developer in our company even it is not node.js I skimmed the summary and there are interesting topics that I do not know yet.

Important advice! When your read a programming book experiment with the examples and try to understand them, there is not much point in reading it like literature.

If anyone can recommend a strong book on node.js I'l be very thankful.

Courses

Learn DevOps: The Complete Kubernetes Course - Kubernetes is a docker orchestration tool, used at large for building micro-service oriented architectures.

Even if am not a big fan of udemy or other learning platforms, usually a course is a very good starter, and in kubernetes I am complete noob so it's ok.

Practice

As for practice we are building a quite complex system for one of our french customers, so there I'l be able to experiment and implement a micro-service oriented system.

Also I am opened to good start-up ideas, even the vast majority of my startups failed, they were an invaluable source of experience.

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My learning path for 2018