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DevOps Paradox: The truth about DevOps by the people on the front line
Discover DevOps secrets from leading experts. Viktor Farcic interviews DevOps industries voices including Mike Kail, Greg Bledsoe, Jeff Sussna, James Turnbull, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Liz Keogh, and more.
Key Features Leading DevOps experts share their insights into modern DevOps practice Engage with the real-world challenges of putting DevOps to work Strengthen your DevOps practices now and prepare for future DevOps trends Book DescriptionDevOps promises to break down silos, uniting organizations to deliver high quality output in a cross-functional way. In reality it often results in confusion and new silos: pockets of DevOps practitioners fight the status quo, senior decision-makers demand DevOps paint jobs without committing to true change. Even a clear definition of what DevOps is remains elusive.
In DevOps Paradox, top DevOps consultants, industry leaders, and founders reveal their own approaches to all aspects of DevOps implementation and operation. Surround yourself with expert DevOps advisors. Viktor Farcic draws on experts from across the industry to discuss how to introduce DevOps to chaotic organizations, align incentives between teams, and make use of the latest tools and techniques.
With each expert offering their own opinions on what DevOps is and how to make it work, you will be able to form your own informed view of the importance and value of DevOps as we enter a new decade. If you want to see how real DevOps experts address the challenges and resolve the paradoxes, this book is for you.
What you will learnExpert opinions on:
Introducing DevOps into real-world, chaotic business environments Deciding between adopting cutting edge tools or sticking with tried-and-tested methods Initiating necessary business change without positional power Managing and overcoming fear of change in DevOps implementations Anticipating future trends in DevOps and how to prepare for them Getting the most from Kubernetes, Docker, Puppet, Chef, and Ansible Creating the right incentives for DevOps success across an organization The impact of new techniques, such as Lambda, serverless, and schedulers, on DevOps practice Who this book is forAnybody interested in DevOps will gain a lot from this book. If you want to get beyond the simplistic ideals and engage with the deep challenges of putting DevOps to work in the real world, this book is for you.
Table of Contents Jeff Sussna - Founder and CEO, Sussna Associates Damien Duportal - Træfik's Developer Advocate Kevin Behr - IT Strategist; Chief Scientific Officer, PraxisFlow Mike Kail - Chief Technology Officer, Everest.org James Turnbull - Chairman, Rethink Robotics Liz Keogh - Tech consultant Julian Simpson - Global IT Manager, Neo4j Andy Clemenko - Senior Solutions Engineer at Docker Chris Riley - Author and DevOps Analyst Adam Sandor - Cloud technology consultant Julia Biro - Site Reliability Engineer, Contentful Damon Edwards - Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Rundeck, Inc Kohsuke Kawaguchi - Chief Technology Officer, CloudBees Sean Hull - Cloud Architect Bret Fischer - Docker Captain, and Cloud SysAdmin Nirmal Mehta - Technology Consultant Greg Bledsoe - Agile- GenresTechnology
532 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 30, 2019
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January 5, 2023
Like the "97 things" books, we have a collection of different perspectives on the subject - in this case DevOps. That means the book isn't internally consistent, but that's the point. You get to see lots of points of view and absorb them all into your own thoughts.
May 31, 2020
This book contains collection of ideas from various industries. Must read for DevOps professional.
January 15, 2020
Different views from different of topics related with DevOps and IT.
September 28, 2019
For those in the software industry, DevOps is a work we have encountered in the past few years without knowing precisely what it means. It’s generally a movement to break down silos in between Development teams and Operations teams within organizations – all with an eye to enhance the business. In this work, Viktor Farcic interviews a bunch of people with the primary question, “What is DevOps?” They all center around this same definition.
To be frank, I did not find the most compelling thing in this book to be finding out what DevOps was about. Asking that question got me through the first two or three interviews. Rather, what kept me going through this book is the sheer wealth of knowledge provided by interviewing people across the IT spectrum. Farcic had conversations with people in consulting companies, in tech companies like Docker and RedHat, and other people doing interesting things. As such, they collectively provided a comprehensive look at the state of IT development and deployment. It was fascinating to see how each one thought about the present and the future and to hear what of today’s technologies and practices they thought would last into the future. Again, that’s where I found the real treasure and value for my time spent reading.
I work in a software lab at a leading academic medical center in the United States. Most academic research groups, in my experience, do not divide operations and development groups strictly. Rather, teams are cross-functional and centered around providing a piece of software to an industry. For instance, I develop Flight Tracker for Scholars, a tool that tracks the career development of academics. I work with a team that is centered on career development research, and I do much of the marketing, customer relations, development, and deployment on my own. DevOps, for situations like mine, is a concept that we have already reckoned with. This book benefited me, therefore, in its touching a wide swath of people from a wide swath of industries.
In my experience, most IT people do not read a lot of books. We read posts on the Internet and news articles instead of in-depth treatments on topics. That fact saddens me because some topics require an in-depth look. This book provides a good, in-depth look at today’s software industry. Anyone in IT could benefit from understanding what their colleagues at other institutions are working on. Reading this book will allow folks to come again to their work afresh and ready to contribute by working smarter. Farcic is a skilled interviewer with a wealth of interesting connections. Reading what he’s been focused on is an excursion well worth one’s time.
To be frank, I did not find the most compelling thing in this book to be finding out what DevOps was about. Asking that question got me through the first two or three interviews. Rather, what kept me going through this book is the sheer wealth of knowledge provided by interviewing people across the IT spectrum. Farcic had conversations with people in consulting companies, in tech companies like Docker and RedHat, and other people doing interesting things. As such, they collectively provided a comprehensive look at the state of IT development and deployment. It was fascinating to see how each one thought about the present and the future and to hear what of today’s technologies and practices they thought would last into the future. Again, that’s where I found the real treasure and value for my time spent reading.
I work in a software lab at a leading academic medical center in the United States. Most academic research groups, in my experience, do not divide operations and development groups strictly. Rather, teams are cross-functional and centered around providing a piece of software to an industry. For instance, I develop Flight Tracker for Scholars, a tool that tracks the career development of academics. I work with a team that is centered on career development research, and I do much of the marketing, customer relations, development, and deployment on my own. DevOps, for situations like mine, is a concept that we have already reckoned with. This book benefited me, therefore, in its touching a wide swath of people from a wide swath of industries.
In my experience, most IT people do not read a lot of books. We read posts on the Internet and news articles instead of in-depth treatments on topics. That fact saddens me because some topics require an in-depth look. This book provides a good, in-depth look at today’s software industry. Anyone in IT could benefit from understanding what their colleagues at other institutions are working on. Reading this book will allow folks to come again to their work afresh and ready to contribute by working smarter. Farcic is a skilled interviewer with a wealth of interesting connections. Reading what he’s been focused on is an excursion well worth one’s time.
January 25, 2023
A very insightful set of interviews with industry experts about the mysterious thing which is DevOps.
It is just proof - whenever someone hires you as "a DevOps", you can expect anything - from being full stack developer, Kubernetes manifest writer, whole IT department to the guy to wake up at 2am because someone in a different time zone dropped a table. Every company has different definition and almost no one knows exactly why and what for.
It is just proof - whenever someone hires you as "a DevOps", you can expect anything - from being full stack developer, Kubernetes manifest writer, whole IT department to the guy to wake up at 2am because someone in a different time zone dropped a table. Every company has different definition and almost no one knows exactly why and what for.
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