‘Programming from the ground up’ the main idea of this one is to teach programming in a bottom up way, so very low level.

it’s mostly about teaching (linux) assembly to beginners, so in a way it is just learning a new language. But it’s mainly about understanding low level how a computer works, like registers, kernel calls, how function calls are handled, all for beginners. It’s really easy to pick up.

Knowing those fundamentals can go a long way in understanding other computing concepts.

Others that come to mind are :

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
• A Philosophy of Software Design
• Software Architecture: The Hard Parts"

There’s a poetry-polylith plugin that makes setting up and working with polylith projects in python a breeze.

You could use dependency injection to set up config once and inject it where needed. at work we use https://pypi.org/project/inject/ . It has its quirks with the autoinjection, you sometimes need to tell it explicitly which parameters to inject, but works great overall.