Books List
- Accelerate - The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology
- The DevOps Handbook - How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
- Effective DevOps - A practical guide for creating affinity among teams and promoting efficient tool usage in your company.
- Site Reliability Engineering - How Google Runs Production Systems.
- The Phoenix Project - know why your projects are important to the business
- Time Management for System Administrators, by Tom Limoncelli. You're going to be pulled in a dozen different directions, if you can't manage your time you're going to suffer.
- UNIX-Linux-System-Administration-Handbook by Nemeth - is a great book, this book is targeted to larger system deployments and real world large systems.
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries - this book is a great book, it's business focused but all of the principals apply to Operation and Development.
- The Open Organization by Jim Whitehurst - Speed and Agility are the keys to any company’s success, and yet many are frustrated that their organizations can’t move fast enough to stay competitive.
- Building a DevOps Culture by Walls - DevOps is really about changing company culture—replacing traditional development and operations silos with collaborative teams of people from both camps.
- Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk by Duvall - llustrates how to transform integration from a necessary evil into an everyday part of the development process. The key, as the authors show, is to integrate regularly and often using continuous integration (CI) practices and techniques.
- Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life by Paul & Elder - theory developed over the last 30 years, it focuses on an integrated, comprehensive concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical.
- Good to Great by Collins - a scientific approach to studying companies
- What is DevOps? by Loukides - Report explains, we’re moving into a more complex arrangement known as "DevOps."
- Personal Kanban: Mapping work | Navigating Life by Benson, DeMaria Barry - choosing the right work at the right time.
- Remote: Office Not Required by Fried - Work from home is expored to point to the surging trend of employees working from home (and anywhere else) and explain the challenges and unexpected benefits.
- The Toyota Way to Lean by Liker, Convis - The missing link to long-term Lean success!
- The Fifth Discipline by Senge - Become a learning organization and get over your "disabilities" that threaten your productivity and success.
- The Effective Executive by Drucker - The measure of an executive is the ability to "get the right things done."
- DevOps Handbook: How To Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis - The DevOps Handbook shows why high-performing organizations are 2.5 times more likely than their peers to exceed exceed profitability, market share, and productivity goals.