- Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne
- Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago
- Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud by Brendan Gregg
- The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling by Raj Jain
- Programming Language Pragmatics by Michael Scott
- Writing Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine by Randall Hyde
- Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems by Chris Sanders
- TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols by W. Richard Stevens
