[strstr]

While that might be true in practice, I do think not knowing when you transition between those two indicates a failing by your coworkers/mentors.

I encourage people I work with to read many of the books in this book series. I particularly encourage them to read “Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization”, since it’s basically a book on their job.

[steev]

Just to be clear, the book series you are referring to is "Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture" published by Morgan-Claypool, right?

If you had to rank them in importance for the average engineer, how would you rank them?