Readings

I'm listing here books and other resources that I found really useful in understanding certain technologies and programming concepts for later reference

Databases

MySQL

Efficient MySQL Performance by Daniel Nichter

High Performance MySQL by Silvia Botros & Jeremy Tinley

Redis

Redis Data Structures for Non-Redis Users

General

Seven Databases in Seven Weeks by Luc Perkins

Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional by Clare Churcher

Beej's Guide to Network Programming

System Architecture

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

Microservices Antipatterns and Pitfalls by Mark Richards

Practical Monitoring by Mike Julian

Microservices Patterns by Chris Richardson

Concurrency

Grokking concurrency by Kiril Bobrov

C++ Concurrency in Action by Antony Williams

Mastering Swoole PHP by Bruce Dou

Operating Systems: Virtualization, Concurrency & Persistence