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Most-mentioned books in r/devops during 2019

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/devops within the published source unit for 2019. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Books ranked
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Tracked mentions in 2019
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Cover of The Phoenix Project #1

The Phoenix Project

Gene Kim

A struggling IT VP inherits a doomed project, a company on the edge of collapse, and one coworker who has quietly become the company's entire bottleneck.

26 in 2019
Cover of The DevOps Handbook #2

The DevOps Handbook

Gene Kim

Why a company doing 10,000 deploys a day breaks less often than one doing four a year, and what it takes to get from the second number to the first.

12 in 2019
Cover of Accelerate #3

Accelerate

Nicole Forsgren

Four researchers measure what actually makes software teams fast, and the findings keep getting cited against companies mistaking speed for shortcuts.

4 in 2019
Cover of TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1 #4

TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1

W. Richard Stevens

You run tcpdump on a mystery connection and finally understand every line it prints, packet by packet.

4 in 2019
Cover of The Unicorn Project #5

The Unicorn Project

Gene Kim

A senior engineer gets exiled to a doomed payroll project and finds a rogue skunkworks team racing to save the company's flagship app before the deadline kills it.

3 in 2019
Cover of Clean Code #6

Clean Code

Robert C. Martin

Robert Martin's case that unreadable functions are a discipline failure, not an inevitability, argued one renamed variable and one extracted method at a time.

2 in 2019
Cover of The Pragmatic Programmer #7

The Pragmatic Programmer

Andy Hunt

Two working programmers write down the shop habits senior engineers use so junior ones stop reinventing them badly.

2 in 2019
Cover of Code Complete #8

Code Complete

Steve McConnell

Steve McConnell's seven-hundred-page argument that construction, not design or testing, is where most software quality is actually won or lost.

1 in 2019
Cover of Continuous Delivery #9

Continuous Delivery

Jez Humble

The devops book the internet's most skeptical devops subreddit never actually argues with.

1 in 2019
Cover of Design Patterns #10

Design Patterns

Erich Gamma

Four authors catalog twenty-three recurring object-oriented problems in 1994 and hand every future code review the same argument to have.

1 in 2019
Cover of Programming Pearls #11

Programming Pearls

Jon Bentley

A newspaper columnist spends 1978 building a spell-checker for 75,000 words that barely fits in memory, and a Bloom filter is the fix.

1 in 2019
Cover of Refactoring #12

Refactoring

Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler's method for restructuring code's internals without anyone outside noticing that anything changed at all.

1 in 2019
Cover of Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud #13

Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud

Brendan Gregg

A production service is degrading and nobody can say why, so you reach for the book that turns 'it feels slow' into a flame graph pointing at the actual line.

1 in 2019
Cover of The C Programming Language #14

The C Programming Language

Brian W. Kernighan

Two authors write the book that becomes 'K&R,' and forty years later Reddit still uses it as shorthand for programmers who had to know everything themselves.

1 in 2019