Background

Though I have been coding since first year of college (since 2015!). I didn’t do degree in CS, so I had to understand the basics of how everything in computer world works myself. These are the books I’ve read for filling up that gap.

Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective

Learnt following from this:

1. Data representation and storage
2. Encodig
3. I/O
4. Basics of networking

Designing Data Intensive Applications

Learnt following from this:

1. Data models and Query Language
2. Storage and Retrieval (Different databases design and inner working)
3. Encoding (What is it, why its needed. Specially for a distrubuted system)
4. Replication
5. Partitioning
6. Transactions