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Rob Allan

Sets the scene for you to pitch to mgmt on devops and what you would need to do

Reviewed in Australia on 2 September 2018

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Very accessible, quick to read and engaging.

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George Bills

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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Jonathan

Not a handbook

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 March 2019

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This is a manifesto and not a handbook. Over 90% of the content is spent on explaining the problems that devops solves without actually defining what devops is. Frustratingly it contains case studies stating the efficiencies gained by using devops but without actually explaining how. I think any content which could be considered a "handbook" could be condensed into a short chapter.

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Gavin Deadman

This is the most comprehensive and practical DevOps guide out

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2021

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This is the best book I’ve read on DevOps and it follows on nicely from Gene Kim’s other book The Phoenix Project.

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”

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Deepak

If you're looking for an up to date review this is your book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 September 2018

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This book, make no mistake, is not the successor to the phoenix project. It's a much dryer review of everything good in DevOps today.

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

10 people found this helpful

Amazon Customer

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.

6 people found this helpful

JurorNumber8, UK

The best, most digestible and useful work-related book I ever read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 June 2020

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I read this book after it was recommended during a LinkedIn hosted training course (DevOps Fundamentals). Unsurprisingly, it's tightly aligned with the advice in that course, but the book is exceptional in being easy going and a "light" read despite the serious topic. It uses cases studies with an usual degree of honest insight (many of the case studies being major companies including FaceBook, LinkedIn, Etsy, NetFlix.

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...

eeuk

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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Mudasar

DevOps Methods

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 January 2020

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This is Jezzas follow up from the Phoenix Project and for me it was fairly dry in terms of story but thats because its a handbook rather than a novel so it was half expected. The book is great to get a understanding of moderm DevOps practices.

Manthan

Great hand book to get you started

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 September 2021

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If you are new to Devops this is a highly recommended item. Comes well packaged and it is quite informative ! Go ahead and order !

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