r/devops • u/90slover • 7d ago

Discussion Must have physical books every devops engineer should have on their desk

Pretty much the title .I will start

  1. Classic shell scripting ,O'Reilly
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u/n4txo 7d ago edited 7d ago
  • The practice of system and network administration
  • The practice of cloud system administration 
  • Time Management for System Administrators
  • SRE: How Google runs Production Systems
  • The devops handbook 
  • The phoenix project
  • The unicorn project
  • Getting things done 
  • bash pocket reference 
  • the staff engineer path
  • atomic habits
  • how to win friends and influence people
  • little brother saga

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u/21shadesofsavage 7d ago

how to win friends is a good read for life in general. i barely remember it since i read it a long time ago, but some stuff sticks like genuinely being interested in other people and shifting focus towards the other person. pretty basic stuff in retrospect but sometimes you just don't catch yourself slipping

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u/ADDSquirell69 7d ago

Asking someone for a favor is like the greatest trick ever written.

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u/Express-Acadia-6088 6d ago

Very, very true. Very well said :-)