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The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition

By: Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Nicole Forsgren
Narrated by: Ron Butler
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This award-winning and best-selling business handbook for digital transformation is now fully updated and expanded with the latest research and new case studies!

Over the last five years, The DevOps Handbook has been the definitive guide for taking the successes laid out in the best-selling The Phoenix Project and applying them in any organization. Now, with this fully updated and expanded edition, it’s time to take DevOps out of the IT department and apply it across the full business.

Technology is now at the core of every company, no matter the business model or product. The theories and practices laid out in The DevOps Handbook are tools to be used by anyone from across the organization to create joy and succeed in the marketplace.

The second edition features 15 new case studies, including stories from adidas, American Airlines, Fannie Mae, Target, and the US Air Force. In addition, renowned researcher and coauthor of Accelerate, Nicole Forsgren, PhD, provides her insights through new and updated material and research. This expanded edition is a must-listen for anyone who works with technology.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2016, 2022 Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren (P)2022 Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren

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How DevOps Should be Done

Full of information and case studies on best practices in running DevOps from start to cubist.
Great book.

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Packed with Greta info

Listened to it on the way to work! Each chapter was a learning experience. Highly recommend

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A must read for the new tech generation

The content tends to be extremely dry, but the learnings within are invaluable to building or revamping a technology driven business.

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Excellent ”Listen”

Great second edition with tons of reference-able material. Would appreciate broader coverage of service restoration in the next edition.

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A bit long, but great info

Some, or more accurately too much, of this book is spent on background and basics, but that isn’t a terrible thing. This classic provides a great overview of DevOPS and many case studies. The book is a must if you don’t already have a modern DevOPS pipeline and processes.

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All technology people must read

Well organized, critical topics, many resource references, some really good concepts and ideas. Will need to buy the book for my physical library now

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Love this Narrated version

I will listen again. So full of examples and the narration brings the words to life

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This book is a must-read for anyone with an influence over or interest in any business with a digital/software component. That is to say, anyone in business. It’s a long read, but it keeps on delivering value all the way through. My only regret is that I will need to read it again and again periodically, to make sure I’m covering as many of the angles and approaches as possible; all the other books in my library are just going to have to wait.

Looking forward to joining the DevOps community, and hoping there’s a third edition in the future. And then a fourth.

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Good but dense

It's a good overview of many best practices and approaches to software development.
I think they could have been more brave and criticized some bad practices more, to create some contrast, but it's already a long book.
No major complaints as I agree with most of the points, Although, I think you'd need some of the special internal Google tools to use a large mono-repo in practice. Or every developer would have to be very comfortable with rebasing and resolving conflicts with git.
The narrator mispronounced a few things a bit robotically, e.g. "configuration as cod" (code) and "GetOps" (GitOps) which was a bit strange...

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A must read

I read the first edition later than I should have but didn’t understand the direction we were heading then so when I did read it some info was dated. This edition is a MUST read and updated with and can help solve many of our issues.

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