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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. DevOps 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 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. Expert opinions Anybody 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.
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427 pages, Paperback
Published September 10, 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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