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Reviewed in Australia on 2 September 2018

Very accessible, quick to read and engaging.

A great overview of modern best practices, but can be a bit of a sales pitch at times

Reviewed in Australia on 4 July 2019

A great overview of modern DevOps practices, covering at a high level what a modern development workplace "should" be doing. Well organised and very readable, which can't always be said for technical books.

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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Useful reference and perfect companion to the Phoenix Project

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 December 2017

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Perfect companion to the Phoenix Project (as it shares one of the same authors and is more of an entertaining 'horror story with a happy ending' about how badly managed IT projects can fail!) which I also bought at the same time. Agile infrastructure and lean IT, in the future people will look back on the history of IT management and DevOps and wonder how and why we ever delivered infrastructure and software projects using individual team silos, just throwing barrels of code down the waterfall without talking back to whoever started throwing them! If you really want to get ahead, start with the third section for practical implementation advice.

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Good overview... not sure how applicable some aspects are to internal and smaller scale applications

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2019

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A good read but started to lose me as a reader with the evangelical themes for DevOps solving all the worlds problems, when most of these techniques have been around for years with different names.

I do get the hype and hope that some of it comes true.... the pain of waterfall means I have to hope! If nothing else there’s some sales opportunities for the latest buzzword.

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PH

Ok

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2020

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Book is OK, good for reference material

Stephen Luckcock

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2017

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Good. a lot less hype and garbage than most of the agile books. Usefull

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Alex Ballarin

Una muy buena continuación al Phoenix Project

Reviewed in Spain on 31 December 2016

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Este libro concentra a cuatro "estrellas del rock" de DevOps: Patrick Debois (creador de los DevOpsDays), Alspaw (pionero DevOps en Flickr), Kim (autor del Phoenix Project) y Humble (autor de Continuous Delivery).

El contenido del libro, muy influído por la aplicación del "Lean Thinking" a los departamentos de IT, está vertebrado en las "tres vías" que ya aparecían en el Phoenix Project:
1) Principios del flujo
2) Prácticas técnicas de feedback
3) Prácticas técnicas de experimentación y feedback

Es un libro completo y bien explicado, con muchos ejemplos, que permite entender DevOps como transformación de la organización IT, más allá de la automatización de los despliegues y de la infraestructura. Mi crítica principal es que ignora demasiado el movimiento "Agile" del desarrollo de software, para centrarse casi exclusivamente en Lean. Esto supone una cierta deformación de la realidad histórica que condujo a DevOps, que hereda mucho más de Agile que de Lean. Salvo esto, un libro estupendo.

Alex Ballarin - Itnove.com

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EagleFan

More know-what than know-how

Reviewed in Germany on 3 January 2020

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This book is filed with insights into the practice of Developments & Operations in software companies. It is light on telling you how to achieve the desired results, and big on stating in fancy language what the desired results of a DevOps Engineer ought to be. One downside, mentioned above, is that there's a lot of fancy language (adjectives that basically say, "do things the best way"), and sometimes it feels like the language borders on marketing material for creating a niche in the field of software development. Like someone is trying to convince us that we need to integrate Dev and Ops in organizations. Maybe that's because it's a bit of an older book, and it laid the foundation for the modern practice of DevOps. In any case, it's an excellent intro, and I would recommend the read.

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Jennifer D

Ok Book but very Technical

Reviewed in Canada on 19 May 2020

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I bought this book to help me try and understand devops better but it's very technical and dry. Not my type of reading but the content would be good for more technically inclined folks.

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rohan amin

Good overview about DevOps

Reviewed in Canada on 5 November 2019

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Th content could have been reduced by about 40% as, lot of phrases are mentioned over and over again. However, it gives a good brief about DevOps. Also, case studies are very good.

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