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A review by basepi
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations by Patrick Debois, Gene Kim, John Willis
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.