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I recently decided to review operating systems, but my old Tanenbaum textbook from college would take forever to read through especially now that I'm working full time. I've been watching the Berkeley lecture series on Youtube (CS 162) and its been pretty good at covering the main topics concisely.

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What prompted you to review? Does this somehow indicate that you weren't using the course material in your job(s)?

I graduated from college more than 2 years ago so I forgot almost all of them CS topics that I've learned and wanted to review the fundamentals (OS, databases, computer architecture, etc). And no, I don't use of these concepts very much at work, only surface level knowledge. I've also been trying to learn more about malware analysis and reverse engineering, and it seems like having a solid foundation in CS concepts is key to being proficient at it.

Would you mind sharing what kind of software you write?

This is interesting to me, since I'm self-taught and seem to have done well in my career so far (4 years in), but now I'm going through core CS books and courses, worried that I'll hit a ceiling and wanting to fill the gaps in my knowledge. I work in devops and infrastructure.

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