Books I've read during 2019 and 2020

Heres the list of books I've read during 2019 and 2020. I recommend all these books for anyone who's interested in reading them. 

The books are broken down in to three broad categories:

1. Technology - all technology related books including architecture, software team management, mobile app design, devops, etc.. I didn't see the point of breaking them down further.

2. Financial - this category is dedicated to personal finance, wealth management, business modelling and economical books.

3. Personal - covers other books that didn't fit well into the first two categories.

Happy reading and happy learning everyone!!!

Technology

• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
• https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decisions/dp/1627790365/
• Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
• https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Technology-Organizations/dp/1942788339/
• The TOGAF ® Standard, Version 9.2
• https://www.amazon.com/TOGAF-%C2%AE-Standard-Version-9-2/dp/9401802831/
• Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
• https://www.amazon.com/Cult-Dead-Cow-Original-Supergroup/dp/154176238X/
• Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value
• https://www.amazon.com/Real-Business-Create-Communicate-Value/dp/1422147614/
• Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework
• https://www.amazon.com/Project-Product-Survive-Disruption-Framework/dp/1942788398/

Financial

• The Psychology of Wealth: Understand Your Relationship with Money and Achieve Prosperity
• https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Wealth-Understand-Relationship-Prosperity/dp/0071789294/

Personal

• The Alchemist
• https://www.amazon.com/Alchemist-Paulo-Coelho/dp/0062315005/
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
• https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501144324/
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
• https://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness/dp/014311526X/
• Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
• https://www.amazon.com/Things-Little-Bird-Told-Confessions/dp/1455528714/
• How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioural Science to Transform Your Working Life
• https://www.amazon.com/How-Have-Good-Day-Behavioral/dp/0553419633/
• Outliers: The Story of Success
• https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930/
• 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
• https://www.amazon.com/18-Minutes-Master-Distraction-Things/dp/0446583405/
• Sun Tzu - The Art of War for Managers: 50 Strategic Rules Updated for Today's Business
• https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Tzu-Managers-Strategic-Business/dp/1605500305/
• Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
• https://www.amazon.com/Buffett-American-Capitalist-Roger-Lowenstein/dp/0812979273/
• The Personality Code
• https://www.amazon.com/Personality-Code-Travis-Bradberry/dp/0399154116/
• Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live
• https://www.amazon.com/Every-Time-Find-Meaning-Change/dp/0143129597/
• The Happiness Project
• https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Project-Tenth-Anniversary-Aristotle/dp/0062888749/

Setup NewRelic for servers

 To get a little bit more insight on the servers that Im running I decided to tryout NewRelicOne platform. It comes with a free tier that I believe will be enough to host my logs for a reasonable amount of time.

This post is best read together with the previous post I jotted down on centralised log management for nextcloud server. which can be found at https://rarepraveen.blogspot.com/2020/09/centralised-logging-for-nextcloud.html.

Steps I followed:

1. Setup a NewRelic account
2. Setup fluentd output source for NewRelic
1. sudo /usr/sbin/td-agent-gem install fluent-plugin-newrelic
2. Add relevant match clause to /etc/td-config/td-agent.conf
   
3. systemctl restart td-agent
3. Setup NewRelic OS agent
1. Follow the NewRelic guide for setting up the OS agent at https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/install-infrastructure-agent/configuration/configure-infrastructure-agent
2. Verify the service is running
1. sudo systemctl status newrelic-infra.service

Thats it for now.