r/devops · 2021

Most-mentioned books in r/devops during 2021

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/devops within the published source unit for 2021. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

Books ranked

Tracked mentions in 2021

Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions

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.

23 in 2021

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.

17 in 2021

Accelerate

Nicole Forsgren

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

9 in 2021

Continuous Delivery

Jez Humble

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

5 in 2021

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.

4 in 2021

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

Martin Kleppmann walks backend engineers through every database, queue, and consistency tradeoff they'll eventually get paged about.

3 in 2021

Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach

James F. Kurose

The book people cite when they're tired of the acronyms and want to know what actually happens between their laptop and a server.

1 in 2021

Cracking the Coding Interview

Gayle Laakmann McDowell

The book credited with inventing the modern coding interview, argued about like it's also on trial for it.

1 in 2021

Domain-Driven Design

Eric Evans

An interviewer asks if you've read Domain-Driven Design, then pivots to recursive Fibonacci when the answer gets complicated.

1 in 2021

#10

Effective Python

Brett Slatkin

Brett Slatkin's Python style guide gets read cover to cover, while its usual shelf-mate Fluent Python becomes something to scare junior devs with instead.

1 in 2021

#11

Fluent Python

Luciano Ramalho

A Python developer past the syntax stage opens Fluent Python to learn why dunder methods, iterators, and decorators work the way they do.

1 in 2021

#12

Implementing Domain-Driven Design

Vaughn Vernon

Vaughn Vernon rewrites Eric Evans' domain-driven design into something an actual team can implement without a whiteboard consultant.

1 in 2021

#13

Python Crash Course

Eric Matthes

A high school teacher gets tired of Python resources that assume too much, so he writes the one that doesn't.

1 in 2021

#14

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 2021

#15

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 2021