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What book would you recommend to explain to someone what you do for a living? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by MariaRomanov@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Linuturk@lemmy.onitato.com 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The Phoenix Project

[–] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm sure this is unpopular, but I hate that book with Mrs.White-level hatred.

I'm so glad there are people like you who do things like this so I don't have to.

[–] MariaRomanov@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

This is the book I had in mind when I created this thread. :)

[–] Balakirev@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This book is sitting in our office. Is it actually a good read? Its very dusty so I always wrote it off as just another corporate book.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It basically created "Devops" as a mindset. You decide if thats a good or bad thing.

Id personally call it a good book. The first half will hurt you if youve ever worked as a sysadmin, as it basically recreates all the worst parts of the job at once to setup the story, but the second half explains how devops as a thought process can solve the issues it creates. It does not going into tools, just methods and concepts.

It can help you fix your orgs bullshit. It is heavy on "you need management buyin" angle though, so if you cant get that at your job, continue to abandon all hope.

[–] Linuturk@lemmy.onitato.com 1 points 1 year ago

I enjoyed it.

[–] RustedSwitch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ha, this was going to be my answer as well