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r/devops · 2024

Most-mentioned books in r/devops during 2024

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/devops within the published source unit for 2024. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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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.

17 in 2024
Cover of Continuous Delivery #2

Continuous Delivery

Jez Humble

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

7 in 2024
Cover of The DevOps Handbook #3

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.

5 in 2024
Cover of Accelerate #4

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 2024
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.

4 in 2024
Cover of Designing Data-Intensive Applications #6

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 2024
Cover of Network Warrior #7

Network Warrior

Gary A. Donahue

Gary Donahue's field manual for the network engineer who inherits a closet full of Cisco gear and has to keep packets moving by Monday.

2 in 2024
Cover of Software Engineering at Google #8

Software Engineering at Google

Titus Winters

Google engineers document how a 25,000-person org ships software that has to last decades — the distinction between 'programmer' and 'engineer' is the whole argument.

2 in 2024
Cover of A Philosophy of Software Design #9

A Philosophy of Software Design

John Ousterhout

A Stanford professor who invented Tcl spends two hundred pages arguing that hiding complexity behind well-designed modules beats writing more, smaller methods.

1 in 2024
Cover of Code Complete #10

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 2024
Cover of Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software #11

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Charles Petzold

Charles Petzold builds a working computer from a doorbell, a flashlight, and a length of wire, then keeps going until it's running software.

1 in 2024
Cover of Design Patterns #12

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 2024
Cover of Domain-Driven Design #13

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 2024
Cover of Head First Design Patterns #14

Head First Design Patterns

Eric Freeman

A junior dev dreads every requirement change until a book full of cartoon ducks and strategy patterns rewires how they see the problem.

1 in 2024
Cover of Modern Operating Systems #15

Modern Operating Systems

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

A 1,000-page walkthrough of how an operating system actually works, kept on the shelf for the week before a systems interview.

1 in 2024
Cover of Modern Software Engineering #16

Modern Software Engineering

David Farley

Dave Farley argues the real gap between a 10x engineer and everyone else is how much rework they eliminate before it ever happens.

1 in 2024
Cover of TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1 #17

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.

1 in 2024
Cover of The First 90 Days #18

The First 90 Days

Michael D. Watkins

You start a new job Monday with a boss expecting results by day thirty, and this book is the plan for those three months.

1 in 2024
Cover of The Manager's Path #19

The Manager's Path

Camille Fournier

A software engineer becomes a tech lead, then a manager, then a director, and the book insists on teaching you each rung separately.

1 in 2024
Cover of The Pragmatic Programmer #20

The Pragmatic Programmer

Andy Hunt

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

1 in 2024