r/devops · 2023

Most-mentioned books in r/devops during 2023

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/devops within the published source unit for 2023. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2023

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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.

25 in 2023

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.

8 in 2023

Accelerate

Nicole Forsgren

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

6 in 2023

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 2023

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 2023

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 2023

Continuous Delivery

Jez Humble

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

2 in 2023

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.

2 in 2023

An Elegant Puzzle

Will Larson

Will Larson treats engineering management as a systems problem, headcount and career ladders, and r/ExperiencedDevs keeps filing it next to Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

1 in 2023

#10

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 2023

#11

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 2023

#12

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 2023

#13

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 2023

#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 2023

#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 2023