DevOps / SRE / Sysadmin / Continuous Deployment

Books

• Amazon - Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale
• Amazon - Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud
• Amazon - AWS System Administration: Best Practices for Sysadmins in the Amazon Cloud
• Amazon - Amazon Web Services in Action
• Amazon - Amazon Web Services For Dummies
• Amazon - Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
• Amazon - The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit: Automating the Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Containerized Microservices
• Amazon - Building Microservices
• Amazon - Scalability Rules: 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites (1st Edition)
  • this one looked really good when I flipped through it
•  Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
  • They had a copy of this book at Infer but I never saw anyone reading it. It was on Bob's desk for a while.

Links

• Patrick Debois (blog) - What Is This Devops Thing, Anyway?
• Reddit - What's the difference between devops and sysadmin?
• DougSeven (blog) - Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale
  • linked by Bob
• Uber Engineering (blog) - Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL - rec'd in Slack by Jacob
  
• Charity.WTF (blog) - DevOps vs SRE: delayed coverage of the dumbest war

Recommendations from Jacob from Infer:

• "Most of the DevOps stuff I've been doing recently has been Postgres related. Postgres has great documentation so I might start there. One Postgres ecosystem tool we use is wal-e, which handles writing our Write Ahead Logs to S3. Speaking of S3, Amazon Web Services is another core platform piece we use. It also has documentation, although there's a lot going on. Specific AWS services we use include EC2, EBS, RDS, S3, SQS, and Route53. We interact with AWS mainly through a python library called boto. Finally, all of our systems are Linux, which is another entire rabbit hole -- I'm not sure what the right starting point is there."
• https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/ - rec'd in Slack by Jacob