The variety of books, videos, articles, live streams, sandboxes for learning new stuff, old stuff, and things only mentioned in passing. I work in a small "state/Local govt agency" where cross-training is key to meeting all the demands placed on the IT team. No training money in our budget, I scraped up the cash for my first O'Reilly account and have been a fan ever since (no corporate account for me). We actively search for new tech and ways to server our clients. O'Reilly has been my go-to choice to learn about emerging tech and to aid problem solving the old tried and true tech we stil have in play and must maintain. I thought O'Reilly was only tech info and training until I was pressed into a supervisor role. Info and resources in O'Reilly helped me get a handle on being a manager when no mentor was available. Twenty years and still going strong. This month I learning about Snowflake and trouble-shooting an old bash interface script. Neverstop learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Can't say I have bad experiences, with books or humans. Firewall issues at work for a couple of live classes a few years ago but it was us not O'Reilly. So I just plan ahead for live courses with labs and do them off site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
