I focus more on finding books relevant to the problem I'm solving rather than generic books. It can be difficult to identity the problem you're solving in a way that allows you to find related books, but I highly recommend going through that process.

At my last job, when I began writing v2 of my distributed in-memory database, I read 
- the papers of leading [consensus algorithms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_(computer_science))
- [The Linux Programming Interface](https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Programming-Interface-System-Handbook/dp/1593272200) so that I could solve fine-grained DX issues

When I worked on [gitern](https://gitern.com/):
- [Pro Git](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2)
- [SSH Mastery](https://www.amazon.com/SSH-Mastery-OpenSSH-PuTTY-Tunnels/dp/1642350028/)

k00b

What books, articles, videos or podcasts have helped you learn or improve in this field?

I feel technology materials get outdated so fast with updates so hard to think about what’s worth adding to a reference collection.

devs

Hello Devs,

What books, articles, videos or podcasts have helped you learn or improve in this field?

I feel technology materials get outdated so fast with updates so hard to think about what’s worth adding to a reference collection.

Thanks,

