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bqta's review against another edition
2.0
The good: This book describes some useful principles and practices, and it ties them together into a framework. Some of it is supported by data.
The bad: This could probably be condensed to about 1/3 its current length, without losing any valuable information. It is absolutely loaded with quotes and references that add nothing, and actually make it much harder to sift out the useful information. The viewpoint is squarely planted in the world of web development, so if that isn't your field you're going to have to figure out how to adapt the useful bits yourself. Practices are rarely described in detail, and downsides/potential pitfalls are barely mentioned.
Save yourself a bunch of time and money: Get a list of the chapter headings, and look up the ones you aren't familiar with. You won't be missing anything, I promise.
The bad: This could probably be condensed to about 1/3 its current length, without losing any valuable information. It is absolutely loaded with quotes and references that add nothing, and actually make it much harder to sift out the useful information. The viewpoint is squarely planted in the world of web development, so if that isn't your field you're going to have to figure out how to adapt the useful bits yourself. Practices are rarely described in detail, and downsides/potential pitfalls are barely mentioned.
Save yourself a bunch of time and money: Get a list of the chapter headings, and look up the ones you aren't familiar with. You won't be missing anything, I promise.
dsayling's review against another edition
5.0
What a great 'how to do it by the book' book. This book focuses on adaptive challenges and technical ones. Which are imperative in a DevOps transformation. I'm trying to get all of engineering in my organization to read this
basepi's review against another edition
4.0
This book is the best resource on DevOps that I’ve found.
DevOps is a fraught topic. It’s come to mean so many things to so many people. And I’m increasingly convinced that the reason for that is because the actual mindset is so broad. What happens is people cherry-pick and focus on their favorite parts, or the easiest parts, or the shiniest parts, or the parts that they think will affect their bottom line with the most immediacy.
This results in the word DevOps losing a lot of its meaning.
But when you get back to the whole, broad, mindset, there’s a lot of value here.
My only reservation is that I’m increasingly convinced that speed shouldn’t always be the focus of development. But that’s another conversation.
If you’re a dev or ops person slogging through a terrible organization, putting out fires everyday, read this book. You should also read it if you ever talk about DevOps, or what it means. You might have blind spots.
4.5 stars.
DevOps is a fraught topic. It’s come to mean so many things to so many people. And I’m increasingly convinced that the reason for that is because the actual mindset is so broad. What happens is people cherry-pick and focus on their favorite parts, or the easiest parts, or the shiniest parts, or the parts that they think will affect their bottom line with the most immediacy.
This results in the word DevOps losing a lot of its meaning.
But when you get back to the whole, broad, mindset, there’s a lot of value here.
My only reservation is that I’m increasingly convinced that speed shouldn’t always be the focus of development. But that’s another conversation.
If you’re a dev or ops person slogging through a terrible organization, putting out fires everyday, read this book. You should also read it if you ever talk about DevOps, or what it means. You might have blind spots.
4.5 stars.
lotuseater96's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
4.0
A good primer on various devops practices and strategies. The case studies are especially interesting. Would recommend for any software professional that's looking to enhance devops health in their team.
wiig_with_k's review against another edition
3.0
Good, maybe a bit too many examples from the big players for my tastes, but the practices resonate.
benyoda95's review against another edition
5.0
Fantastic. This book was hugely informative about the prices we can be driving for. I found the QA section especially helpful.