Reviewed on Mar 2023, book by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
I found this book by accident and was instantly hooked once I started reading it. Although its a novel about a IT systems manager trying to fix the broken systems in his company (something we are all familiar with). But through this novel the trio of authors also educate what ideal IT orgs within company look like and how its not an impossible standard to maintain.
The novel is adequately paced, keeping the reader hooked with a myriad of problems the main protagonist gets involved in and how clueless sometimes he is. The solutions presents themselves through dailogue between different characters and are often funnily insightful.
Situations like this only reinforce my deep suspicion of developers: They’re often carelessly breaking things and then disappearing, leaving Operations to clean up the mess.
As one of the character says
“Remember, outcomes are what matter—not the process, not controls, or, for that matter, what work you complete.”
the book is an enjoyable read and achieves its objective of teaching the reader about the rising discipline of DevOps.