A good progression I think is these books in order and 2 labs:
- Kurose, Computer Networks a top down approach
- tcp/ip illustrated volume 1
- the no starch tcp/ip book
For labs,
- at your workplace or homelab, I’d click through the network configs in your cloud. This hits maybe on “modern networking,” although the theories in the books will match to what you see in cloud just maybe with cloud product names. Reading through terraform repos is also good
- GNS3 lab software to build networks you read about in those books.
Or tbh, just doing a net+ cert would get you in a good place for basic competency to augment a dev job.
Top of mind - there is a logic to it and it’s quite interesting technology. Learn to thing in terms of protocols and their rules and it’ll open up.
- Kurose, Computer Networks a top down approach
- tcp/ip illustrated volume 1
- the no starch tcp/ip book
For labs,
- at your workplace or homelab, I’d click through the network configs in your cloud. This hits maybe on “modern networking,” although the theories in the books will match to what you see in cloud just maybe with cloud product names. Reading through terraform repos is also good
- GNS3 lab software to build networks you read about in those books.
Or tbh, just doing a net+ cert would get you in a good place for basic competency to augment a dev job.
Top of mind - there is a logic to it and it’s quite interesting technology. Learn to thing in terms of protocols and their rules and it’ll open up.