Indeed! This book is likely to be 100x more interesting than your local college's undergrad networks course.

The dozen or so principles Varghese lays out for writing fast networking code is reason enough to pick it up. The writing is very approachable, too. Reminds me more of the early network operator books than a CS text.

This book blew my head off when it first came out (I used to work in the space). Highly recommend.

Wow this is a unique book! Just skimming I see Bloom filters, tries, routing protocols, sequential logic and DDOS all in same book. This looks great. Thanks for sharing.