
The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations
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This award-winning and best-selling business handbook for digital transformation is now fully updated and expanded with the latest research and new case studies!
Over the last five years, The DevOps Handbook has been the definitive guide for taking the successes laid out in the best-selling The Phoenix Project and applying them in any organization. Now, with this fully updated and expanded edition, it’s time to take DevOps out of the IT department and apply it across the full business.
Technology is now at the core of every company, no matter the business model or product. The theories and practices laid out in The DevOps Handbook are tools to be used by anyone from across the organization to create joy and succeed in the marketplace.
The second edition features 15 new case studies, including stories from adidas, American Airlines, Fannie Mae, Target, and the US Air Force. In addition, renowned researcher and coauthor of Accelerate, Nicole Forsgren, PhD, provides her insights through new and updated material and research. This expanded edition is a must-listen for anyone who works with technology.
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- Listening Length15 hours and 51 minutes
- Audible release date30 November 2021
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB09L5793DD
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Product details
Listening Length | 15 hours and 51 minutes |
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Author | Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Nicole Forsgren |
Narrator | Ron Butler |
Audible.com.au Release Date | 30 November 2021 |
Publisher | IT Revolution |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B09L5793DD |
Best Sellers Rank | 12,555 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 19 in Business Information Management 204 in Business Management (Audible Books & Originals) 242 in Leadership (Audible Books & Originals) |
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It can come across as a bit buzzwordy and sales-pitchy at times - I'd prefer to never again have to read either of the phrases "optimising the value stream" or some variation of "those who adapt these practices will succeed in the marketplace at the expense of those who don't". At a certain point the authors need to accept that either they've sold the reader on the concept or not, and just cover the concept that they're introducing.
I get that it's the concepts that are important and not the tools, but I would have appreciated an occasional breakout deep dive into the details of what someone did with tool X in order to accomplish objective Y. Those are lightly brushed on - example tools for accomplishing a given objective are listed, and there are case studies throughout - but they're often very evangelistic ("Etsy did X and optimised their value stream!") without the warts and all technical details. To be fair, there's an "additional resources" section in the back that points to more technical resources.
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It’s quite easy to think that DevOps practices are just something that dev teams deal with and the value is simply just an increase in throughput, but the book provides clarity on the colossal value that adopting a DevOps culture and the principles can have on teams, the business, and customers.
Throughout the book, Gene echoes the importance of having the whole product team (product manager, designer and several engineers)) involved in the transformation, as well as focusing on outcomes, and to achieve outcomes you need to collect data and learn through experimentation which is covered in the book too.
Gene gives good advice that it’s important to avoid funding projects and instead you should fund services and products: “A way to enable high-performing outcomes is to create stable service teams with ongoing funding to execute their own strategy and road map of initiatives”.
This is the most comprehensive and practical DevOps guide out there and the layout makes the content easy to digest. The book covers:
– History leading up to DevOps, and Lean thinking
– Agile, and continuous delivery
– Value streams
– How to design your organisation and architecture
– Integrating security, change management, and compliance
The principles and tech practices of:
1. Flow
2. Feedback
3. Continual Learning and Experimentation
“Our goal is to enable market-oriented outcomes where many small teams can quickly and independently deliver value to the customer”


Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2021
It’s quite easy to think that DevOps practices are just something that dev teams deal with and the value is simply just an increase in throughput, but the book provides clarity on the colossal value that adopting a DevOps culture and the principles can have on teams, the business, and customers.
Throughout the book, Gene echoes the importance of having the whole product team (product manager, designer and several engineers)) involved in the transformation, as well as focusing on outcomes, and to achieve outcomes you need to collect data and learn through experimentation which is covered in the book too.
Gene gives good advice that it’s important to avoid funding projects and instead you should fund services and products: “A way to enable high-performing outcomes is to create stable service teams with ongoing funding to execute their own strategy and road map of initiatives”.
This is the most comprehensive and practical DevOps guide out there and the layout makes the content easy to digest. The book covers:
– History leading up to DevOps, and Lean thinking
– Agile, and continuous delivery
– Value streams
– How to design your organisation and architecture
– Integrating security, change management, and compliance
The principles and tech practices of:
1. Flow
2. Feedback
3. Continual Learning and Experimentation
“Our goal is to enable market-oriented outcomes where many small teams can quickly and independently deliver value to the customer”


If you're looking at this book 3 years after it has been out I would tell you to save your money and find something more recent. But for now, until the technologies and principals it mentions are considered outdated it is likely the best review of modern DevOps practices.
Buy it, read it and improve upon it


A great read for anyone wanting to "catch up" on modern DevOps (even from scratch). I'm off to buy it's accompanying novel, The Phoenix Project...