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Books: Operating Systems/Database/Networking/Computer Security/Computer Architecture textbooks, Software Engineering textbooks (Clean Code, Design Patterns, Designing Data Intensive Applications, Domain Driven Design as a short list off the top of my head)

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"Designing Data Intensive Applications" is an absolute goldmine for things like message queues but also going beyond understanding the full implications in database selection and other common, distributed-oriented engineering decisions modern software engineers may come across.

By the same token "documentation". Today I explained to a colleague how they could enable port-forwarding across their already-open-SSH-session via "~C".

Every now and again I pick a tool I use a lot, and read the man-page. Things like "less", "bash", "ssh". Complex enough to contain surprises, but simple enough that you take them for granted.

Almost always this has been time well-spent.

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