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Reading Series: The Phoenix Project

Posted by dyyyl
Tags: process control, it infrastructure, dev ops, reading series

Hey Tildes,

Any interest in a weekly reading series of The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim? It's a fantastic novel on IT infrastructure, process control, and promoting dev ops culture.

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    CoolGirl
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    The Phoenix Project is a really good read! Haven't been able to find the time to finish it but a place to chat about it would be really cool.

    The Phoenix Project is a really good read! Haven't been able to find the time to finish it but a place to chat about it would be really cool.

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      Luca
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      I'm curious, are you in the industry or not? Everyone I know who's read it works somewhere in software

      I'm curious, are you in the industry or not? Everyone I know who's read it works somewhere in software

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      1. CoolGirl
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        Yea, I'm a web developer. It does seem to be very common book in tech for the obvious reasons but it can be applied to just soon many areas of life.

        Yea, I'm a web developer. It does seem to be very common book in tech for the obvious reasons but it can be applied to just soon many areas of life.

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  2. Luca
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    Oh man, I read this book many years back when I started my first internship in a devops position. It sounds silly to say about a fictional novel, but it really helped open my eyes to the...

    Oh man, I read this book many years back when I started my first internship in a devops position. It sounds silly to say about a fictional novel, but it really helped open my eyes to the importance of infrastructure.

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  3. patience_limited
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    So, my current employer is going through a substantial "transformation", and The Phoenix Project is more or less required reading for all of us, as with doses of Agile, Six Sigma, and an...

    So, my current employer is going through a substantial "transformation", and The Phoenix Project is more or less required reading for all of us, as with doses of Agile, Six Sigma, and an assortment of buzzwords. I'd be happy to join a broader reading group that isn't considering the content with consternation and a measure of terror for our jobs.

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    teaearlgraycold
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    This is the second time I've seen "devops culture" on Tildes in 24 hours. A quick DDG search doesn't really give me a good idea of what that is.

    This is the second time I've seen "devops culture" on Tildes in 24 hours. A quick DDG search doesn't really give me a good idea of what that is.

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    1. dyyyl
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      The basic principles of DevOps culture involve streamlining as much of the operational work as possible with automation and tight process control. Implementing things like continuous integration...

      The basic principles of DevOps culture involve streamlining as much of the operational work as possible with automation and tight process control. Implementing things like continuous integration and delivery, IT automation for common/repetitive tasks, and automated security and vulnerability scanning done against every PR, etc.

      The overall goal is to remove as much technical debt accrual as possible, while incrementally adding positive features into the product with a lot of business safety.

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  5. cordyceptive
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    This looks a lot like Who Moved My Cheese? Anyways, I'd probably read it, but not if I had to pay money to do so.

    This looks a lot like Who Moved My Cheese? Anyways, I'd probably read it, but not if I had to pay money to do so.