97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

by Emily Freeman, Nathen Harvey

If you create, manage, operate, or configure systems running in the cloud, you're a cloud engineer--even if you work as a system administrator, software developer, data scientist, or site reliability engineer. With this book, professionals from around the world provide valuable insight into today's cloud engineering role. These concise articles explore the entire cloud computing experience, including fundamentals, architecture, and migration. You'll delve into security and compliance, operations and reliability, and software development. And examine networking, organizational culture, and more. You're sure to find 1, 2, or 97 things that inspire you to dig deeper and expand your own career.

Genres: Computer Science

308 pages, Paperback

Published January 12, 2021

Reviews

[Simon MacDonald · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is too shallow and too high level to be of any use. There were at least two articles that were so basic they never should have got past the editing process. I appreciate the commitment to the "97 Things" that O'Reilly likes to do but this book would have really benefited from less things and more quality.

While the book says it is 290 pages that is a real misnomer. It is padded out quite a bit with photos of all the authors and a 20 page index. In my estimation over 20% of this book pages contain info you will never look at.

[Łukasz Słonina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Was expecting to learn something new, but only 3-5 items were interesting to me. Rest of the book is around basic cloud concepts and qualities of cloud applications. Overall too basic for experienced engineers, too shallow for fresh ones.

[SolidM · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quite disappointing... It's one of those IT books where I only highlighted the text a very small number of times. Everything is way too general to really be interested for engineers with more than 1 or 2 years of experience.

[BubbyY · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it. It was pretty surface level and a little redundant, but I did get some resources (e.g., dev.to) and new-to-me tidbits (e.g., MicroVMs) out of it. Getting the refresher on the ACID properties of databases alone made it a good pickup for me, heh.

[Jascha · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nothing special, just a lot of talk about cloud concepts, without diving into anything. Most are evangelists or consultants trying to sell you a product.

[Carlos Becker · Rating 2 out of 5]

It’s missing the “for dummies” in the title.

[Vlad Voinov · Rating 2 out of 5]

A collection of high level things from random people. Almost nothing practical.