DevOps Reading List

Many of these readings long pre-date the creation (in 2008) of the term DevOps. But the DevOps movement does not pretend to have sprung, like Athena, fully-formed from the head of Zeus. All of the leading DevOps figures explicitly acknowledge their great debt to the many brilliant figures who laid the foundations for what we today call DevOps, which consists in the merging of many earlier streams of thought on how to develop software and manage its deployment and operations.

• A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander
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• Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• Continuous Delivery, Jez Humble and David Farley
  Reviewer(s): Sneha Ghosh, Ravish Bhatia
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• DevOps Case Studies, The IT Revolution
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• Docker Up and Running, Karl Matthias and Sean P. Kane
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• Domain-Driven Design, Eric Evans
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• Effective DevOps, Jennifer Davis and Katherine Daniels
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• Implementing Lean Software Development, Mary and Tom Poppendieck, Jeff Sutherland, and Kent Beck
  Reviewer(s): Chaoqun Huang, Qiwei Zhou
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• Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud, Kief Morris
  Reviewer(s): Adit Kumar, Shivraj
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• Just-in-Time for Today and Tomorrow, Taiichi Ohno and Setsuo Mito
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• Kubernetes Up and Running, Kelsey Hightower, Brendan Burns, and Joe Beda
  Reviewer(s): Sneha Ghosh, Ravish Bhatia
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• Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale, Gary Gruver and Tommy Mouser
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• Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, Mary and Tom Poppendieck
  Reviewer(s): Jiawei Wang, Bowei Xu
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• Making Work Visible, Dominica DeGrandis
  Reviewer(s): Akshay Hazare
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• Manifesto for Agile Software Development, multiple authors
  Reviewer(s): Lili Xu, Yang Lou
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• "No Silver Bullet," Fred Brooks
  Reviewer(s): Tingjun Zhang
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• Phoenix Project, Gene Kim
  Reviewer(s): Garima Negi, Drumil Kaushik
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• Practical DevOps , Joakim Verona
  Reviewer(s): Pravar Singh, Kanishk Dugar
• Release It!, Michael T. Nygard
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• Rugged DevOps, The Rugged Summit
  Reviewer(s): Arun Kuruvilla
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• Site Reliability Engineering, Betsy Beyer
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• Software Tools in Pascal, Brian Kernighan and P.J. Plauger
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• The Art of Monitoring, James Turnbull
  Reviewer(s): Tanya Jha, Jatri Dave
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• The DevOps Handbook, Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Jez Humble, and John Allspaw
  Reviewer(s): Janiel Atul Patel, Chiquita Ratnakar Prabhu
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• The Machine That Changed the World, James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos
  Reviewer(s): Saniya Alekar, Anshal N Savla
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• The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks
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• The Principles of Product Development Flow, Donald G. Reinersten
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• The Timeless Way of Building, Christopher Alexander
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• The UNIX Programming Environment, Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike
  Reviewer(s): Srinivas, Arun Kuruvilla
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• "The Use of Knowledge in Society," F.A. Hayek
  Reviewer(s): Linfeng Wang, Tingjung Zhang
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• The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws
  Reviewer(s): Om Narayan, Jayesh Mhatre
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• Toyota Production System: an Integrated Approach to Just-in-Time, Yasuhiro Monden
  Reviewer(s): Datta Dwarampudi
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• Version Control with Git, John Loeliger and Matthew McCullough
  Reviewer(s): Richa Desai
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