Ask HN: Good books/courses to learn networking essentials for web developers? ↗

The books people recommended

2021-06-27 · 430 points · 71 comments · 9 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.

7Site Reliability Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering
Google
7 here · 14 all-time · #472 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 1,233 ratings on Amazon
6Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach
Kurose and Ross
6 here · 25 all-time · #242 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 660 ratings on Amazon
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High Performance Browser Networking
Ilya Grigorik
4 here · 22 all-time · #281 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 213 ratings on Amazon
3Effective Python
Effective Python
Brett Slatkin
3 here · 6 all-time · #1196 overall
2
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
2 here · 104 all-time · #24 overall
Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 5,595 ratings on Amazon
2TCP/IP Illustrated
TCP/IP Illustrated
W. Richard Stevens
2 here · 20 all-time · #320 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 321 ratings on Amazon
2Computer Networks
Computer Networks
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
2 here · 11 all-time · #570 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 503 ratings on Amazon
1Google SRE Book
Google SRE Book
1 here · 3 all-time · #2087 overall
1Internetworking with TCP/IP
Internetworking with TCP/IP
Douglas Comer
1 here · 3 all-time · #2184 overall