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There are 0 reviews and 2 ratings from Australiawith 3 star

Eddie

Gonna be a long read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 August 2019

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Pretty heavy book to get into better into

Steve Fossey

Good material, but aimed at big business only

Reviewed in Canada on 25 July 2020

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Very good material by a very good author. While I do highly recommend this book, I think it leaves out something very important: small business, where 75% of people are employed. The teams described would not only be individuals in most companies, they'd probably be rolled up into one or two people wearing many hats. And it is in these resource-starved environments, say 200 employees or less, that the time saving and rapid deployment could be best put to use.

Granted, too few small businesses are focused on improving themselves; but they're so completely ignored that I cannot rate this book higher than mid-range, even though I think every small business IT Manager should read it. Also, compared to the author's two novelizations of the concepts, the writing is about as dry as you can get.

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Andre

The concepts are good and sound but I estimate this book could have ...

Reviewed in Canada on 14 February 2018

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It could be much smaller. I feel the author repeats the same concepts over and over again. The concepts are good and sound but I estimate this book could have 50% of the size if the author didn't repeat himself and the concepts so often.

If you already have read the phoenix project book and have some experience with devops organizations then this doesn't add much.

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Abhinav Kishore

Not the original print

Reviewed in India on 7 January 2021

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This book does not seems to be original print. It looks like a Xerox copy of the original. Even binding is not good. Book condition is also not fresh and it is dirty.

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Z-Car Man

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 September 2017

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Over the last few years I have worked as both a developer and a DBA (database administrator). DevOps has become a buzz word in recent years and, on recommendation, I brought this book to help increase my knowledge of this area.

A trend with modern IT related books is to be over verbose and repetitive. I have a 1000+ page database tome that could be reduced to 300 pages without loss of content. This is the same it could be easily halved. The book has improved my understanding of DevOps but was disappointing at the same time. Is there a really good book on DevOps out there?

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Dave S

different format) which was so good that I found this a slog by comparison

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2017

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Possibly an unfair review. I'd just finished The Phoenix Project by the same author (same subject, different format) which was so good that I found this a slog by comparison.

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Arpit Khandelwal

Great book, could have been written in a better way

Reviewed in the United States on 30 December 2018

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No doubt it is a precious book, however content is repeated too much. I kept loosing interest in the book because of repeated content. It could easily carry it's content in 300 pages if it didn't have all that repeatation. If there was a "The DevOps Handbook Condensed" book, I'd rather read that.

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Music Lover

A good book but makes a bogus argument about savings

Reviewed in the United States on 30 June 2019

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They make a fallacious argument in the introduction that DevOps would create $2.6 trillion of value per year by eliminating $520 billion of waste. That would amount an annual return on investment of 500% per year. If the writers could do that they should be investing in the market and would be the richest men alive in short order.

A. V. Parcero

It's great to see the ideas of Agile Methodology and Xtreme ...

Reviewed in the United States on 8 April 2018

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Buzzwords! New Paradigm! DevOps! It's great to see the ideas of Agile Methodology and Xtreme Programming come together and this book makes it clear waterfall programming is dead but, unless a company embraces these ideas, they're doomed from the start. Books don't make reality unless things are put into practice and this book gives clear examples of how to make that practice a reality. An easy read that is a must for any company hoping to keep pace with the changing world of modern software development.

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Mark Grennan

Shold be NoOps handbook not DevOps

Reviewed in the United States on 16 December 2016

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I'm finding this book mostly small minded and hype for the DORA group.

The first book "The Phoenix Project" was great and did a good job showing how the silos in tech companies can work together. I was hoping this book would go either deeper in the tech tools and show how to build workflow or more employee management (culture) to bring Sales, Ops and Dev together. Instead this book self conflicting and shallow.

Example: "Myth - DevOpst Means Eliminating IT Operations or ""NoOps""". Then says.. "... the right culture norms, small teams of developer are able to quickly, safely, and independently deploy ... changes into production" That is the definition of NoOps.

It also talks about building a trusting work place where Devs are allowed to make mistakes (because they can recover from them fast) but says nothing about the human aspect of managers firing Ops people because they missed a 2am alert and it escalated to his boss.

It is also written with many absolute comments (sales talk) Like: in chapter 1 when FOCUS(ing) ON DEPLOYMENT LEAD TIME it implies all large batch work can be reduced. This ignores IT issues like conversion of big production data sets that can take weeks.

This book comes with an code to "TAKE THE DORA DEVELOP X-RAY ASSESSMENT AND SEE WHERE YOU STAND". Marc Andreessen is famously quoted as saying, "The spread of computers and the internet will put jobs in two categories: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do." Or, "automate all the things" and reduce work and work force. The Answer is - Get out of OPS go back to DEV and prepare to work on small meaningless bit of code.

The one subject this book does cover that the Phoenix Project did not is SECURITY. However, this books still see the Sec group as outsiders writing tasks (after the fact), reviewing Dev code and training DevOps and creating DevOpsSec. It thinks or hopes security problems can be coded away with tools like Gauntlt.

Conclusion: If you're looking for some good quotes about why / how you / 're company should / can move faster to build a minimum viable product (MVP) in the lease amount of time by WIP-ing works not creating it.... This book is for you.

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