└── README.md /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Recommended Books 2 | 3 | This is a repo that lists the books I got recommended since moving more into the operations / infrastrastructure world. It lists the titles that relate to Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Operations and Systems Thinking 4 | 5 | If you have a suggestion for the list, then please send a PR, I would be happy to add it. 6 | 7 | ### Continuous Delivery / RelEng 8 | 9 | [Continous Delivery](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912) 10 | [Release It](http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0978739213) 11 | [Build Quality In](https://leanpub.com/buildqualityin) 12 | [Ship It](http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Successful-Software-Projects/dp/0974514047) 13 | [The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit: Automating the Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Containerized Microservices](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/152391744X) 14 | 15 | ### System Architecture 16 | [Software Architecture for Developers](https://leanpub.com/software-architecture-for-developers) 17 | [Building Microservices](http://www.amazon.com/Building-Microservices-Sam-Newman/dp/1491950358/) 18 | [Practice of Cloud System Administration, The: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practice-Cloud-System-Administration-Distributed/dp/032194318X) 19 | [Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infrastructure-Code-Managing-Servers-Cloud/dp/1491924357) 20 | 21 | ### System administration 22 | 23 | [UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook](http://amzn.com/0133390098) 24 | [Essential System Administration:Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration](http://amzn.com/0596003439) 25 | [Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Site-Reliability-Engineering-Production-Systems/dp/149192912X) 26 | [DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices](https://www.amazon.co.uk/DevOps-Troubleshooting-Linux-Server-Practices/dp/0321832043) 27 | 28 | ### DevOps / Culture / Leadership 29 | [The Phoenix Project](http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0988262509) 30 | [The DevOps Cookbook](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Devops-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002/) 31 | [The Goal](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0566086654) 32 | [Fearless Change](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fearless-Change-patterns-introducing-ideas/dp/0201741571) 33 | [Crucial Conversations](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Conversations-Tools-Talking-Stakes/dp/1469266822) 34 | [The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization](http://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-Teams-High-Performance-Organization/dp/0060522003) 35 | [Out of the Crisis](http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Out-of-the-Crisis-by-W-Edwards-Deming-Paperback-2000-/231522832307) 36 | [Remote: Office Not Required](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Remote-Required-David-Heinemeier-Hansson/dp/0091954673) 37 | [Start With Why](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/0241958229) 38 | [Leaders Eat Last](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Leaders-Eat-Last-Together-Others/dp/0670923168) 39 | [Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591846404/) 40 | [The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition](http://www.amazon.com/High-Velocity-Edge-Operational-Excellence-Competition/dp/0071741410) 41 | [Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results](http://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Kata-Managing-Improvement-Adaptiveness/dp/0071635238) 42 | [Behind Closed Doors](http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Closed-Doors-Management-Programmers/dp/0976694026) 43 | [Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Effective-DevOps-Building-Collaboration-Affinity/dp/1491926309) 44 | 45 | ### Web Operations 46 | [Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time/dp/1449377440) 47 | [The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Capacity-Planning-Scaling-Resources/dp/0596518579) 48 | [The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Scalability-Architecture-Organizations-Enterprise/dp/0134032802) 49 | 50 | ### Systems Thinking 51 | [Thinking in Systems: A Primer](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thinking-Systems-Primer-Diana-Wright/dp/1844077268) 52 | [Failure Is Not An Option](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Failure-Not-Option-Thorndike-Bestsellers/dp/0425179877) 53 | [The Field Guide To Understanding Human Error](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BL0OZ0E) 54 | [Drift Into Failure](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1409422216) 55 | [Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability](http://www.amazon.com/Just-Culture-Balancing-Safety-Accountability/dp/1409440605) 56 | [The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization](http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Fifth-Discipline-practice-organization/dp/1905211201) 57 | 58 | ### Tooling 59 | [Pro Nagios](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nagios-Experts-Voice-Open-Source/dp/1590596099) 60 | [The LogStash Book](http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Logstash-Book-James-Turnbull-ebook/dp/B00B9JQTCO) 61 | [The Docker Book](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Docker-Book-Containerization-new-virtualization-ebook/dp/B00LRROTI4/) 62 | [The Art of Monitoring](https://www.artofmonitoring.com) 63 | 64 | ### Databases 65 | [High Performance MySQL](http://www.amazon.co.uk/High-Performance-MySQL-Optimization-Replication/dp/1449314287) 66 | [Cassandra: The Definitive Guide](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cassandra-Definitive-Guide-Jeff-Carpenter/dp/1491933666) 67 | 68 | ### Agile 69 | [Implementing Lean Software Development](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Implementing-Lean-Software-Development-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321437381/ref=cm_lmf_tit_11) 70 | [Kanban](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kanban-David-J-Anderson/dp/0984521402/ref=cm_lmf_tit_8) 71 | [Running Lean](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Running-Lean-Iterate-Works-OReilly/dp/1449305172/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428438864&sr=8-1&keywords=running+lean) 72 | [The Lean Mindset](http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lean-Mindset-Questions-Signature/dp/0321896904/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0V4YYQKVT6CC0YE0QWRV) 73 | [Lean from the Trenches](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lean-Trenches-Managing-Large-Scale-Projects/dp/1934356859/ref=cm_lmf_tit_15) 74 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------