--- title: EP111: My Favorite 10 Books for Software Developers description: A post discussing coding principles, favorite books for software developers, and papers that transformed the computer world. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ep111-my-favorite-10-books-for-software-developers-2nens17ub twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: EP111: My Favorite 10 Books for Software Developers | daily.dev og:description: A post discussing coding principles, favorite books for software developers, and papers that transformed the computer world. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ep111-my-favorite-10-books-for-software-developers-2nens17ub og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2Nens17UB.png og:image:alt: EP111: My Favorite 10 Books for Software Developers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # EP111: My Favorite 10 Books for Software Developers **[ByteByteGo](https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego)** · 4 min read · 343 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary A post discussing coding principles, favorite books for software developers, and papers that transformed the computer world. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@callmebrian** · 4 upvotes > For deeper understanding of software system, I would like recommend these 2 books: > - Distributed Systems by A.S. Tanenbaum & M. V. Steen: for the concept, consensus algorithms, and many many more > - Introduction to Information Retrieval by C. D. Manning and colleagues: Understand how search engines work, with some basic ML algorithms in the following chapters of the book **@bpowell** · 1 upvotes > Bookmarked this to reference later for purchasing some of these books. **@7ive** · 0 upvotes > Thanks for sharing **@thokozilemsoni** · 0 upvotes > Do you have any good books on cybersecurity topics like system architecture and analyst? --- Tags: [#system-design](https://daily.dev/tags/system-design) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ep111-my-favorite-10-books-for-software-developers-2nens17ub) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"EP111: My Favorite 10 Books for Software Developers","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ep111-my-favorite-10-books-for-software-developers-2nens17ub","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ep111-my-favorite-10-books-for-software-developers-2nens17ub"},"datePublished":"2024-05-11T15:34:44.092Z","dateModified":"2026-11-01T18:48:09.908Z","description":"A post discussing coding principles, favorite books for software developers, and papers that transformed the computer world.","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/fetch/s--6yBTnu6i--/f_auto,pg_1,q_auto/https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1200%2Ch_600%2Cc_fill%2Cf_jpg%2Cq_auto:good%2Cfl_progressive:steep%2Cg_auto/https%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F12d664a0-da33-43da-9059-48075c1cad7d_800x1040.gif?_a=BAMAMiZY0","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/fetch/s--6yBTnu6i--/f_auto,pg_1,q_auto/https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1200%2Ch_600%2Cc_fill%2Cf_jpg%2Cq_auto:good%2Cfl_progressive:steep%2Cg_auto/https%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F12d664a0-da33-43da-9059-48075c1cad7d_800x1040.gif?_a=BAMAMiZY0","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"ByteByteGo","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ByteByteGo","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/35be29234ee14d01a9cd049c52e12753","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego"},"commentCount":5,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/ep111-my-favorite-10-books-for-software-developers-2nens17ub","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":343},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":5}],"keywords":"system-design","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ByteByteGo","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"EP111: My Favorite 10 Books for Software Developers"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ep111-my-favorite-10-books-for-software-developers-2nens17ub","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"For deeper understanding of software system, I would like recommend these 2 books:\n\nDistributed Systems by A.S. Tanenbaum \u0026amp; M. V. Steen: for the concept, consensus algorithms, and many many more\nIntroduction to Information Retrieval by C. D. Manning and colleagues: Understand how search engines work, with some basic ML algorithms in the following chapters of the book","datePublished":"2024-05-17T02:46:33.155Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/2Nens17UB#c-HBZKcWuN0","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Brian","url":"https://daily.dev/callmebrian","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocLlINqf8QePR1E6iRSeEmeE-ujlD18Itx1kALCmLoNu=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Bookmarked this to reference later for purchasing some of these books.","datePublished":"2024-05-21T20:47:23.855Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/2Nens17UB#c-8XvbcC5ef","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Brian Powell","url":"https://daily.dev/bpowell","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--O0TOmw4y--/f_auto/v1715772965/public/noProfile"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Thanks for sharing","datePublished":"2024-06-03T10:45:53.249Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/2Nens17UB#c-NHYWtexqj","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Prunel Mel","url":"https://daily.dev/7ive","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--WXsYrD9I--/f_auto/v1712951836/avatars/avatar_MHXP3xjYeBA4PiIAE2Hpm"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Do you have any good books on cybersecurity topics like system architecture and analyst?","datePublished":"2024-06-08T12:46:45.803Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/2Nens17UB#c-3nE8VWq4G","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"thokozile msoni","url":"https://daily.dev/thokozilemsoni","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--wtxAoQRP--/f_auto/v1740492335/avatars/avatar_5b2qWN5pr08Z0M8GFOXT4"}}]} ```