Recommended Reading - The Practice of Cloud System Administration - page 480

Appendix E. Recommended Reading
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough
time.
—Leonard Bernstein
DevOps:
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
( Kim et al. 2013 )
A fictional story that teaches the Three Ways of DevOps.
• Building a DevOps Culture ( Walls 2013 )
Strategies for building a DevOps culture, including aligning incentives, defining
meaningful and achievable goals, and creating a supportive team environment.
• Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deploy-
ment Automation ( Humble & Farley 2010 )
The canonical topic about service delivery platforms.
• Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software ( Nygard 2007 )
Detailed coverage and examples of how to implement many of the ideas in
Chapter 11 .
• Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture ( Allspaw 2009 )
Theory and practice of postmortems.
• A Mature Role for Automation ( Allspaw 2012c )
Why “Automate Everything!” is bad, and what to do instead.
• Each Necessary, But Only Jointly Sufficient ( Allspaw 2012a )
Myths and limits of “root cause analysis” and “The Five Why's.”
ITIL:
• Owning ITIL: A Skeptical Guide for Decision-Makers ( England 2009 )
A gentle introduction to ITIL with honest advice about how to make it work.