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# Recommended Books



This is a repo that lists the books I got recommended since moving more into the operations / infrastrastructure world. It lists the titles that relate to Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Operations and Systems Thinking



If you have a suggestion for the list, then please send a PR, I would be happy to add it.



### Continuous Delivery / RelEng



[Continous Delivery](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912)  

[Release It](http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0978739213)  

[Build Quality In](https://leanpub.com/buildqualityin)  

[Ship It](http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Successful-Software-Projects/dp/0974514047)  

[The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit: Automating the Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Containerized Microservices](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/152391744X)



### System Architecture

[Software Architecture for Developers](https://leanpub.com/software-architecture-for-developers)  

[Building Microservices](http://www.amazon.com/Building-Microservices-Sam-Newman/dp/1491950358/)  

[Practice of Cloud System Administration, The: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practice-Cloud-System-Administration-Distributed/dp/032194318X)  

[Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infrastructure-Code-Managing-Servers-Cloud/dp/1491924357)  



### System administration



[UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook](http://amzn.com/0133390098)   

[Essential System Administration:Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration](http://amzn.com/0596003439)  

[Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Site-Reliability-Engineering-Production-Systems/dp/149192912X)  

[DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices](https://www.amazon.co.uk/DevOps-Troubleshooting-Linux-Server-Practices/dp/0321832043)  



### DevOps / Culture / Leadership

[The Phoenix Project](http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0988262509)  

[The DevOps Cookbook](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Devops-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002/)  

[The Goal](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0566086654)  

[Fearless Change](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fearless-Change-patterns-introducing-ideas/dp/0201741571)  

[Crucial Conversations](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Conversations-Tools-Talking-Stakes/dp/1469266822)  

[The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization](http://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-Teams-High-Performance-Organization/dp/0060522003)  

[Out of the Crisis](http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Out-of-the-Crisis-by-W-Edwards-Deming-Paperback-2000-/231522832307)  

[Remote: Office Not Required](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Remote-Required-David-Heinemeier-Hansson/dp/0091954673)  

[Start With Why](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/0241958229)  

[Leaders Eat Last](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Leaders-Eat-Last-Together-Others/dp/0670923168)  

[Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591846404/)  

[The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition](http://www.amazon.com/High-Velocity-Edge-Operational-Excellence-Competition/dp/0071741410)  

[Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results](http://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Kata-Managing-Improvement-Adaptiveness/dp/0071635238)  

[Behind Closed Doors](http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Closed-Doors-Management-Programmers/dp/0976694026)  

[Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Effective-DevOps-Building-Collaboration-Affinity/dp/1491926309)  



### Web Operations

[Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time/dp/1449377440)  

[The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Capacity-Planning-Scaling-Resources/dp/0596518579)  

[The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Scalability-Architecture-Organizations-Enterprise/dp/0134032802)  



### Systems Thinking

[Thinking in Systems: A Primer](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thinking-Systems-Primer-Diana-Wright/dp/1844077268)  

[Failure Is Not An Option](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Failure-Not-Option-Thorndike-Bestsellers/dp/0425179877)  

[The Field Guide To Understanding Human Error](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BL0OZ0E)  

[Drift Into Failure](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1409422216)  

[Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability](http://www.amazon.com/Just-Culture-Balancing-Safety-Accountability/dp/1409440605)  

[The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization](http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Fifth-Discipline-practice-organization/dp/1905211201)



### Tooling

[Pro Nagios](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nagios-Experts-Voice-Open-Source/dp/1590596099)  

[The LogStash Book](http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Logstash-Book-James-Turnbull-ebook/dp/B00B9JQTCO)  

[The Docker Book](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Docker-Book-Containerization-new-virtualization-ebook/dp/B00LRROTI4/)  

[The Art of Monitoring](https://www.artofmonitoring.com)



### Databases

[High Performance MySQL](http://www.amazon.co.uk/High-Performance-MySQL-Optimization-Replication/dp/1449314287)  

[Cassandra: The Definitive Guide](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cassandra-Definitive-Guide-Jeff-Carpenter/dp/1491933666)



### Agile

[Implementing Lean Software Development](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Implementing-Lean-Software-Development-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321437381/ref=cm_lmf_tit_11)  

[Kanban](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kanban-David-J-Anderson/dp/0984521402/ref=cm_lmf_tit_8)  

[Running Lean](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Running-Lean-Iterate-Works-OReilly/dp/1449305172/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428438864&sr=8-1&keywords=running+lean)  

[The Lean Mindset](http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lean-Mindset-Questions-Signature/dp/0321896904/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0V4YYQKVT6CC0YE0QWRV)  

[Lean from the Trenches](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lean-Trenches-Managing-Large-Scale-Projects/dp/1934356859/ref=cm_lmf_tit_15)