[[blog/video-the-future-of-software-engineering-mary-poppendieck.md|Video_ The Future of Software Engineering - Mary Poppendieck]] Currently Reading Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations by Gene Kim, Jez Humble (Goodreads Author), Patrick Debois, John Willis 4.35 · https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26083308-the-devops-handbook?from_search=true#https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26083308-the-devops-handbook?from_search=true# https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26083308-the-devops-handbook?from_search=true# Rating details · 1,626 ratings · 149 reviews Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed productivity goals through DevOps practices. More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to balance agility, reliability, and security. The consequences of failure have never been greater whether it’s the healthcare.gov debacle, cardholder data breaches, or missing the boat with Big Data in the cloud. And yet, high performers using DevOps principles, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Etsy, and Netflix, are routinely and reliably deploying code into production hundreds, or even thousands, of times per day. Following in the footsteps of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook shows leaders how to replicate these incredible outcomes, by showing how to integrate Product Management, Development, QA, IT Operations, and Information Security to elevate your company and win in the marketplace." (less) Get A Copy AmazonOnline Stores ▾Book Links ▾ Paperback, 437 pages Published October 6th 2016 by It Revolution Press (first published December 7th 2015) Original Title The DevOps Handbook . ISBN 1942788002 (ISBN13: 9781942788003) . Edition Language English . 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Lists with This Book DevOps Reading List 84 books — 117 voters DevOps must to read list 34 books — 9 voters More lists with this book… . Community Reviews Showing 1-30 4.35 · https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26083308-the-devops-handbook?from_search=true# Rating details · 1,626 ratings · 149 reviews ![[./resources/book-the-devops-handbook-gene-kim-jez-humble-patri.resources/loading-45f04d682f1e9151cf1e6fb18a1bde21.gif]] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26083308-the-devops-handbook?from_search=true#Filter | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26083308-the-devops-handbook?from_search=true#Sort order . Sep 09, 2016 Quentin Fennessy rated it it was amazing tl;dr This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand, explain and implement DevOps culture, process and tools for high performance development and operations. The DevOps Handbook (437 pages, 2016, Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis, Allspaw) is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand, explain and implement DevOps culture, process and tools for high performance development and operations. The Phoenix Project (2013, Kim, Spafford, Behr) took us through the challenges of IT development and o …more flag 10 likes · Like · 3 comments · see review May 30, 2017 Michael Koltsov rated it really liked it This book actually reminds me of the book “Release it ” but with much less emphasis on actual technical patterns but with a stronger accent on soft skills. It’s also complimentary to the “Phoenix Project” written by the same authors. If you’ve skipped the “Phoenix Project” or you don’t like to read the novels, like I do, I would recommend you to start with this book as it has much more momentum than the first book. It has a bunch of great inspiring examples of successes from the companies that have …more flag 6 likes · Like · comment · see review May 09, 2017 Bjoern Rochel rated it really liked it Shelves: 2017, eng-mgmt It’s not as good as I hoped for, after the fabulous ‘Phoenix Project’. The technical level is perfect for a high level overview for a technical manager, but don’t expect detailed guidance from this book. Also if you are a frequent blog reader, you might already heard or read most of the things. It’s good to have it in condensed form. All the case studies give the book a nice grounded touch, but as the recent events around Etsy and Yahoo have shown, sometimes it might still not work out in the en …more flag 6 likes · Like · 3 comments · see review Mar 06, 2019 Peter rated it it was ok Finally gave up on this around the halfway mark. I did the audiobook version of this and it was just a sleep-inducing experience for the vast majority of the time. What finally broke me was when I realized I had completely zoned out for a good 15 minutes, but I didn’t feel like I actually missed much or care if I did. Having done The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win a few years ago and having enjoyed that, I thought I’d give this a go as a refresher of the …more flag 2 likes · Like · comment · see review Sep 19, 2018 Mohamed Elsherif rated it it was amazing I believe this book captures the true spirit of the DevOps movement, it lays down the problems & challenges clearly, sets the stage for different roles in the organization, and offers a clear path from traditional model to an organization that efficiently delivers value continuously. Highly and strongly recommended flag 2 likes · Like · comment · see review Jan 03, 2019 Jeremy Morgan rated it it was amazing My 2nd time reading this was much better. The first time I felt like it was too much information packed into it. But after a few years working in devops and coming back to it I found it to be pretty amazing. It does contain a ton of information and repeats things but in a deliberate way. As others have said it’s a must read for devops professionals, developers, testers or managers. It’s a philosophy, not tools and this book lays out the philosophy well. flag 2 likes · Like · comment · see review Aug 09, 2018 Kirill rated it it was amazing All DevOps practices in a single place - organisational, cultural and technical. Lots of exceptional case studies. flag 2 likes · Like · comment · see review Mar 14, 2018 Meg rated it liked it · review of another edition Shelves: non-fiction, programming In the beginning, a lot of this book felt like a lengthy advertisement for The Phoenix Project, but my opinion improved over time. The material overall is not particularly new or earth-shattering, but the book does a good job of collecting several practices and underscoring their importance in a larger context. While the book has an understandable focus on cloud development, with a bit of ingenuity, several of the practices could also be adapted to more legacy desktop software development areas. …more flag 2 likes · Like · 1 comment · see review Aug 19, 2018 Paul rated it it was ok If this had been published in the 90s it would’ve been groundbreaking (and wrong). Published in the early 2000s it would’ve been bold. Publishing it now is redundant. Terms like CI are so common you don’t even need to explain the initialism. I was severely disappointed with this book. It is NOT a handbook of any kind. This is pure evangelism aimed at managers. Also, very quickly, I realised how extremely narrow the authors’ world is. Basically: web services. Almost every argument and anecdote is …more flag 2 likes · Like · comment · see review Dec 02, 2017 Ryan Maclean rated it it was ok This book could have been 100 pages, and most of the content is filler. flag 2 likes · Like · comment · see review Oct 04, 2018 Marta rated it really liked it Shelves: audio, business-tech, nonfiction, own-audio This is an excellent overview of devops, including a summary of lean manufacturing, agile software development practices, security and compliance issues, etc. The authors stayed at a relatively high level - we will not find detailed solutions with exact steps here. Rather, the book points you to areas you might want to research further. I am familiar with automated testing and continuous delivery practices, so most of the book sounded pretty familiar. The authors focused on IT practices of large …more flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Sep 16, 2017 Faisal Prngtl added it Devops is not a designation. It’s a culture of adopting some practices, principle and tools to improve your all means of engineering. Dev QA ops sec whatever you call. learning and experimenting is much important. I recommend this book to all folks doing software development, testing , security, operation etc.. flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Feb 24, 2019 Luca rated it really liked it Well written, good content. Lack of fifth star is more about me than the book itself. It wasn’t too engaging and it’s probably due to my familiarity with the ideas discussed. flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review May 18, 2018 Josh Laird rated it it was amazing The nonfiction follow up to the Phoenix Project. This has become my new Bible. A high level overview of what devops is and its best practices. flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Jan 31, 2018 Dusan Katona rated it it was amazing I really liked the book, it provides a lot of practical examples how different companies moved to the DevOps model. Some chapters didn’t bring anything new to me (like adopt continuous integration), because the practices described there has become a de-facto standard in the industry, but I can understand it can still help some companies which are at the start of the journey. Definitely worth reading for anyone who wants to make a technology organization better! flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Nov 06, 2017 Edgar Garcia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Excelente Este es uno de los mejores libros que he leído en toda mi carrera profesional. Es altamente recomendado para todo aquel que quiera ser un ente de cambio en su empresa. flag 1 like · Like · 1 comment · see review Mar 23, 2019 Dmitri Colebatch rated it really liked it Comprehensive, but pretty heavy going. Anyone who has read about Agile and Teams will find a lot of repeated information and knowledge. Having said that - a valuable set of information and advice; I’d challenge anyone to read the book at not gain value. flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Oct 03, 2018 Ulas Tuerkmen rated it really liked it There is a certain counter-intuitiveness, even a conflict to the basic tenets of the DevOps concept. Beyond the basic practices of storing infrastructure as code and automating / scripting as much as possible, DevOps requires organizations to bring code to the users as frequently as possible, making the changes in small increments. Only by making the delivery process as quick, easy and safe as possible is it possible to create a platform that is reliable, secure and and of maximum value to custo …more flag Like · comment · see review Jul 24, 2017 Nilesh Patil rated it liked it The start of the book is very engaging but later its becomes little boring due to either too much details and book talks about only one company called Etsy. I like the case studies in the relevant chapter but few places it just doesn’t make sense. Overall good read but unfortunately not very productive. There is plenty of information and reference material available at the end which occupies almost 20% of the book. I think I expected more. flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Apr 25, 2017 Dushan Hanuska rated it really liked it Shelves: information-technology I really enjoyed reading this book. I recommend reading it after “The Project Phoenix” first as there are some concepts that this book refers to - specifically, “the three ways”: 1. Flow, 2. Feedback, and 3. Continual Learning and Experimentation. This book provides handy tips for each of the three ways and lots of case studies you can learn from. flag 1 like · Like · see review Jul 25, 2018 Wes Gardner rated it it was amazing This is the most important, useful, influential book I’ve ever read for work. Anybody who works in a company that uses technology should read this. Being someone who is not from a tech background but has joined a tech team (in a coordinating role), this has given me so much of what I needed to know to meaningfully contribute to the strategy. flag 1 like · Like · 1 comment · see review Jun 18, 2017 Omar Khawaja rated it it was amazing I followed up The Phoenix Project with this book, and I loved it. This book actually gives concrete examples of how to implement DevOps principles in an organization. I love the use cases and examples it provides. flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Apr 22, 2017 Madhur Ahuja rated it it was amazing Shelves: tech Excellent book. Must read for Senior Tech people. flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Oct 03, 2017 Craig Kingsman rated it it was amazing One of the best books on DevOps I’ve ever read. flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Oct 08, 2018 Himanshu Modi rated it liked it This book, as probably stated in a million other places, is the theoretical view of the “Phoenix project”. So as such, don’t expect the not-so-scintillating drama here. It is supposed to be a handbook. On that me and my colleagues have been debating a whole lot about what a playbook (for a related topic), which in my mind should be the same as a handbook, should comprise of. We haven’t made much headway. So credit where it’s due, the goal of codifying devops principles is a worthy goal. And it i …more flag Like · comment · see review Aug 05, 2018 Tõnu Vahtra rated it really liked it Shelves: my-books “Building high-trust cultures is likely the largest management challenge of this decade” I have slightly mixed feelings about this book and it took me over a year to finish it. Phoenix Project was my first book about DevOps and it’s still one of my favorite ITSM books. I’m quite familiar with DevOps theory through DASA DevOps certification and reading countless articles and blog posts. This book did offer several new insights, but it reminded me a bit of the ITIL 2011 books (not in such extreme w …more flag Like · comment · see review Apr 07, 2019 Dmitrijs Prigodics rated it it was amazing · review of another edition В определенный момент развития дев-команды может возникнуть вопрос: блин, вроде не халявим, вроде все правильно делаем, даже отжайль и срам с кангбангом, но как-то тоскливо, и жопа горит. ЧЯДНТ?! А это значит, что, может, на тактическом плане все у вас ок, но на стратегическом вы подобны обезьяне из анекдота с сакраментальным “Что тут думать, сильней трясти надо!”. А значит, самое время посмотреть по сторонам. А там всякие мудрености по апгрейду бизнес-процессов, гибкие методологии, настолько гиб …more flag Like · comment · see review Mar 11, 2019 Jack rated it really liked it I read the O’Reilly book, Site Reliability Engineer, on Google’s system before reading this one, and I really wish that I would have reversed the order of these readings. Having struggled my way through the SRE book, this one was MUCH easier. The SRE book goes pretty in depth into some of the engineering issues that Google faces, which gets quite (and in my opinion unnecessarily) complex. When the SRE book wasn’t going over my head, I definitely enjoyed it, and most of the time it was at an appr …more flag Like · comment · see review Nov 16, 2017 Ryan Kapsar rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: agile, innovation, lean, management This book took me longer than was warranted to finish it. This was a fantastically written book that takes a large number of case studies provided by experts in the industry to argue for using the methodologies espoused in their first book the Phoenix Project. While that book was more akin to the Goal, this book was more related to a book like Lean Thinking. Providing case study after case study arguing with clear data and results from a variety of differently sized organization that this is an …more flag Like · comment · see review Nov 22, 2018 Alex French rated it liked it Good: Covers a lot of ideas Bad: Different audiences often have very different ideas what “DevOps” means. This book just chooses to lump together everything that might possibly be “DevOps” AND any other modern idea about project management and process improvement. This really does a disservice to lots of distinct ideas that may or may not apply to different situations. I was a little skeptical of many of the mini-case-studies, and a tiny note at the end admits that many of them record a brief high …more flag Like · comment · see review « previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … next » . new topic Discuss This Book There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Be the first to start one » .