Details the inner workings of Google and how they built their company from the ground up. This book is a great introduction into "Googliness". If you're looking to impress at a Google interview then start by reading this book.

This is a deep dive into the inner workings of BigQuery and what really sets the borg architecture apart from other cloud data warehouses. The SQL examples throughout the book are also great. A great prep for the PDE exam.

The tech that started the Big Data revolution. Although Hadoop is almost outdated as a core technology with the development of cloud data warehouses it still is fun to read through how the OG system was developed and the challenges the original developers faced.

Spark offers a good general purpose and platform agnostic execution platform for big data development. This book is written by some of the Databricks team members and gives a detailed look at the Spark architecture and execution paradigm. Spark is a fast growing technology with a lot to offer and is an essential part of any data engineer's toolkit.