DevOps must-to-read list (38 books)

Great books to read so you can lean yourself towards a DevOps mindset

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1	The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim 4.26 avg rating — 50,099 ratings score: 1,498, and 15 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations by Gene Kim 4.29 avg rating — 5,887 ratings score: 987, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 8,127 ratings score: 964, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim 4.06 avg rating — 10,133 ratings score: 592, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Continuous delivery by Jez Humble (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 3,306 ratings score: 584, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael T. Nygard 4.25 avg rating — 3,257 ratings score: 482, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann (Goodreads Author) 4.70 avg rating — 10,620 ratings score: 399, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems by Betsy Beyer (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 2,910 ratings score: 389, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt 4.07 avg rating — 83,588 ratings score: 381, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery: A Hands-On Guide to Deploying and Managing Software in Production by Yevgeniy Brikman (Goodreads Author) 4.62 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 300, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Beyond The Phoenix Project: The Origins and Evolution Of DevOps (Official Transcript of The Audio Series) by Gene Kim 4.11 avg rating — 426 ratings score: 288, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results by Mike Rother 4.19 avg rating — 1,895 ratings score: 282, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 57,815 ratings score: 273, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective (SEI Series in Software Engineering) by Len Bass 3.61 avg rating — 62 ratings score: 189, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Art of Business Value by Mark Schwartz (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 561 ratings score: 186, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale by Jez Humble (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 1,555 ratings score: 171, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow by Dominica Degrandis 4.09 avg rating — 2,022 ratings score: 169, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Effective Devops: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale by Jennifer Davis (Goodreads Author) 3.41 avg rating — 290 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The DevOps Adoption Playbook: A Guide to Adopting DevOps in a Multi-Speed IT Enterprise by Sanjeev Sharma 3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale by Gary Gruver 3.80 avg rating — 418 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit: Automating the Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Containerized Microservices by Viktor Farcic 4.16 avg rating — 132 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Agile Application Lifecycle Management: Using Devops to Drive Process Improvement by Bob Aiello 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business by David J. Anderson 3.99 avg rating — 3,381 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas by Mary Lynn Manns 3.95 avg rating — 455 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Drift into Failure by Sidney Dekker 4.01 avg rating — 341 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time by John Allspaw 4.09 avg rating — 336 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk by Paul Duvall 3.80 avg rating — 459 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Start and Scaling Devops in the Enterprise by Gary Gruver 3.71 avg rating — 62 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility by Mark Schwartz (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 784 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	DevOps for the Modern Enterprise: Winning Practices to Transform Legacy IT Organizations by Mirco Hering (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 202 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	It's Not Luck by Eliyahu M. Goldratt 4.18 avg rating — 3,114 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Logical Thinking Process: A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving by H. William Dettmer 4.38 avg rating — 160 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Thinking for a Change (The CRC Press Series on Constraints Management) by Lisa J. Scheinkopf 3.96 avg rating — 85 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Beyond the Goal: Eliyahu Goldratt Speaks on the Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu M. Goldratt 4.07 avg rating — 627 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Necessary But Not Sufficient by Eliyahu M. Goldratt 4.10 avg rating — 716 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Securing DevOps: Security in the Cloud by Julien Vehent 4.37 avg rating — 82 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective (SEI Series in Software Engineering) by Len Bass 3.61 avg rating — 62 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance - A Business Novel by Dee Jacob 3.84 avg rating — 596 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars