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## Articles and Books to Read

- [A Few Ops Lessions We All Learn the Hard Way](https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ops-lessons.html) - A collection of lessons that everyone in ops and SRE inevitably learns. You may not personally experience all of them, but they'll ring true after you're in ops for a while.
- [Clean Code](https://smile.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882) - Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn't have to be that way. Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code "on the fly" into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer-but only if you work at it.
- [Continuous Delivery](https://smile.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912) - A book that has rapidly become _the_ guide to planning and implementing build pipelines.
- [Clean Code](https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882) - Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn't have to be that way. Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code "on the fly" into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer-but only if you work at it.
- [Continuous Delivery](https://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912) - A book that has rapidly become _the_ guide to planning and implementing build pipelines.
- [DevOps Roadmap](https://roadmap.sh/devops) - Community driven, articles, resources, guides, interview questions, quizzes for DevOps. Learn to become a modern DevOps engineer by following the steps, skills, resources and guides listed in this roadmap.
- [Effective DevOps](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920039846.do) - A practical guide for creating affinity among teams and promoting efficient tool usage in your company.
- [Git Magic (free ebook)](http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/) - `git` is a version control Swiss army knife. A reliable versatile multipurpose revision control tool whose extraordinary flexibility makes it tricky to learn, let alone master.
- [GNU Coreutils Package Guide](https://blog.robertelder.org/gnu-coreutils-package-guide/) - Robert Elder made a short YouTube video describing every command in the GNU Coreutils package. I guarantee you will discover something new.
- [Hello DNS](https://github.com/ahupowerdns/hello-dns) - Every sysadmin/sre needs to know how DNS works. Start with [DNS Basics](https://github.com/ahupowerdns/hello-dns/blob/master/basic.md) it's a good introduction.
- [Lean Startup](https://smile.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898) or [Lean Enterprise](https://smile.amazon.com/Lean-Enterprise-Performance-Organizations-Innovate/dp/1449368425) - This pair describes the process surrounding implementation and use of Lean principles in Startup and Enterprise organizations. There are a number of companion pieces that extend the principles to specific fields of study and implementation, such as [Lean Analytics](https://smile.amazon.com/Lean-Analytics-Better-Startup-Faster/dp/1449335675).
- [Lean Startup](https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898) or [Lean Enterprise](https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Enterprise-Performance-Organizations-Innovate/dp/1449368425) - This pair describes the process surrounding implementation and use of Lean principles in Startup and Enterprise organizations. There are a number of companion pieces that extend the principles to specific fields of study and implementation, such as [Lean Analytics](https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Analytics-Better-Startup-Faster/dp/1449335675).
- [Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering](https://sre.google/resources/practices-and-processes/twenty-years-of-sre-lessons-learned/) - Google blog post about lessons learned over their first 20 years running data centers.
- [LinkedIn's School of SRE](https://github.com/linkedin/school-of-sre) - Linkedin is using this curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new college grads into the SRE role.
- [SRE Transformation: our thoughts](https://layeraleph.com/advice/2022/11/15/sre-transformation/) is a great "What is SRE and why bother?" post.
- [Site Reliability Engineering](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920041528.do) - How Google Runs Production Systems. This can be read online for free at Google's [SRE site](https://landing.google.com/sre/book/index.html).
- [Systems Performance: Enterprise and Cloud](https://smile.amazon.com/Systems-Performance-Enterprise-Brendan-Gregg/dp/0133390098) by Brendan Gregg, this book is an award winner and a favorite of many a sysadmin and SRE, it addresses systems performance at scale.
- [The Art of Capacity Planning](https://smile.amazon.com/Art-Capacity-Planning-Scaling-Resources-ebook/dp/B0026OR2Y0) - John Allspaw's book is a hands-on and practical guide to planning for such growth, with many techniques and considerations to help you plan, deploy, and manage web application infrastructure.
- [Systems Performance: Enterprise and Cloud](https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Performance-Enterprise-Brendan-Gregg/dp/0133390098) by Brendan Gregg, this book is an award winner and a favorite of many a sysadmin and SRE, it addresses systems performance at scale.
- [The Art of Capacity Planning](https://www.amazon.com/Art-Capacity-Planning-Scaling-Resources-ebook/dp/B0026OR2Y0) - John Allspaw's book is a hands-on and practical guide to planning for such growth, with many techniques and considerations to help you plan, deploy, and manage web application infrastructure.
- [The Art of Monitoring](https://artofmonitoring.com/) - James Turnbull's book on the art of modern application and infrastructure monitoring and metrics.
- [The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations](https://smile.amazon.com/DevOps-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002) - The results of a multi-user case study on DevOps and the practical-oriented sequel to [The Phoenix Project](http://smile.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business-ebook/dp/B00AZRBLHO).
- [The Goal](https://smile.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0884271951/ref=zg_bs_10020725011_1) - A foundational novel on the Theory of Constraints and many other operational concerns.
- [The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations](https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002) - The results of a multi-user case study on DevOps and the practical-oriented sequel to [The Phoenix Project](http://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business-ebook/dp/B00AZRBLHO).
- [The Goal](https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0884271951/ref=zg_bs_10020725011_1) - A foundational novel on the Theory of Constraints and many other operational concerns.
- [The Missing Semester of Your CS Education](https://missing.csail.mit.edu/) - There’s one critical subject that’s rarely covered in CS programs, and is instead left to students to figure out on their own: proficiency with their tools. This course will teach you how to master the command-line, use a powerful text editor, use fancy features of version control systems, and much more!
- [The Phoenix Project](http://smile.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business-ebook/dp/B00AZRBLHO) - know why your projects are important to the business.
- [The Practice of Cloud System Administration](https://smile.amazon.com/Practice-Cloud-System-Administration-Distributed/dp/032194318X), by Tom Limoncelli. Focuses on “distributed” or “cloud” computing and brings a DevOps/SRE sensibility to the practice of system administration. Includes case studies and examples from Google, Etsy, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and other industry giants are explained in practical ways that are useful to all enterprises.
- [Time Management for System Administrators](http://smile.amazon.com/Management-System-Administrators-Thomas-Limoncelli/dp/0596007833), by Tom Limoncelli. You're going to be pulled in a dozen different directions, if you can't manage your time you and your job performance are going to suffer.
- [UNIX-Linux-System-Administration-Handbook](http://smile.amazon.com/UNIX-Linux-System-Administration-Handbook/dp/0131480057) by Evi Nemeth is a great book, this book is targeted to larger system deployments and real world large systems.
- [Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time](https://smile.amazon.com/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time-ebook/dp/B0043M4Z34) - A collection of essays and interviews, with web veterans such as Theo Schlossnagle, Baron Schwartz, and Alistair Croll that will teach you strategies for designing your web site to scale up smoothly to web-scale load.
- [The Phoenix Project](http://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business-ebook/dp/B00AZRBLHO) - know why your projects are important to the business.
- [The Practice of Cloud System Administration](https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Cloud-System-Administration-Distributed/dp/032194318X), by Tom Limoncelli. Focuses on “distributed” or “cloud” computing and brings a DevOps/SRE sensibility to the practice of system administration. Includes case studies and examples from Google, Etsy, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and other industry giants are explained in practical ways that are useful to all enterprises.
- [Time Management for System Administrators](http://www.amazon.com/Management-System-Administrators-Thomas-Limoncelli/dp/0596007833), by Tom Limoncelli. You're going to be pulled in a dozen different directions, if you can't manage your time you and your job performance are going to suffer.
- [UNIX-Linux-System-Administration-Handbook](http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Linux-System-Administration-Handbook/dp/0131480057) by Evi Nemeth is a great book, this book is targeted to larger system deployments and real world large systems.
- [Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time](https://www.amazon.com/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time-ebook/dp/B0043M4Z34) - A collection of essays and interviews, with web veterans such as Theo Schlossnagle, Baron Schwartz, and Alistair Croll that will teach you strategies for designing your web site to scale up smoothly to web-scale load.
- [Wizard Zines](https://wizardzines.com/) - Julia Evans has a great set of zines she's published about many topics useful to a starting (or even an experienced) sysadmin/SRE.

## Languages
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If you're in a Ruby shop, you'll want these books:

- [Ruby Best Practices](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596523015.do)
- [Ruby: Learn Ruby in 24 Hours or Less](https://smile.amazon.com/Ruby-Beginners-Learning-Programming-Course/dp/1533191611)
- [Ruby: Learn Ruby in 24 Hours or Less](https://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Beginners-Learning-Programming-Course/dp/1533191611)
- [The Ruby Programming Language](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596516178.do)

### Perl
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