r/devops · 2020
Most-mentioned books in r/devops during 2020
This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/devops within the published source unit for 2020. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.
#1 The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim
An IT manager inherits a failing project, a mutinous ops team, and a CEO deadline — and has to ship before the company does.
#2 The DevOps Handbook
Gene Kim
Four practitioners codify how Etsy, Netflix, and Google actually ship software — then explain why your org does the opposite.
#3 The Unicorn Project
Gene Kim
The Phoenix Project retold from the developer's chair: same burning company, different seat at the fire.
#4 Continuous Delivery
Jez Humble
The 2010 Humble-Farley textbook that turned "ship when it's done" into a measurable engineering discipline with pipelines, gates, and deployment rings.
#5 Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
A backend engineer's field guide to the tradeoffs behind every database, queue, and distributed system you will ever touch.
#6 Accelerate
Nicole Forsgren
Nicole Forsgren's research team ran the numbers on software delivery and found that deployment frequency and stability move together, not against each other.
#7 Cracking the Coding Interview
Gayle Laakmann McDowell
The book that turned software hiring into a sport — written by the ex-Googler who introduced programming challenges to the process in the first place.
#8 The Linux Programming Interface
Michael Kerrisk
A 1,500-page tour of every Linux system call, written by the man who maintains the manual pages.
#9 The Manager's Path
Camille Fournier
A software engineer picks up a management role and finds out — via 142 Reddit mentions — that nobody told them about the crying, the firings, or the 90-day onboarding clock.