Recommended Resources
On this page we will list all the resources recommended in the course, as well as the references used. The resources and references will be organized per chapter, section, and video, for a easier and faster way to access them. They will be quickly accessible from anywhere within the course, just click on the Recommended Resources tab.
CHAPTER 1: WHY DO DEVOPS? SECTION 1. UNDERSTANDING IMPROVEMENT
AWS - Transforming Software Development
Gene Kim - Leading a DevOps Transformation: Lessons Learned
CAMS - What Devops Means to Me
The Agile Admin - What Is DevOps?
Knight Capital
2015 State of DevOps Report
Ron Westrum Model
Lean software development
DevOps Enterprise Summit 2014
DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015
Continuous Delivery
CHAPTER 1: WHY DO DEVOPS? SECTION 2. THE CONVERGENCE, HISTORY, AND VALUE OF DEVOPS
DevOps Connect cdSummit: John Willis Kata Presentation
The Convergence of DevOps
Operations Is A Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce of Startups!)
The History of DevOps
Velocity '09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond - "10+ Deploys Per Day"
The DevOps Transformation
Agile Infrastructure with Andrew Shafer - The Agile Executive 004
Botchagalupe Presentations
The Andon Cord
Netflix: Culture and Responsibility
Spotify Engineering Culture (Part 1)
Velocity '09: Agile Infrastructure (Wall of Confusion)
Velocity NYC 2013: Andrew Clay Shafer - "There Is No Talent Shortage"
What Is DevOps (Wall of Confusion)
CHAPTER 2: UNDERSTANDING THE VALUE STREAM. SECTION 1. ANALYZING THE TECHNOLOGY VALUE STREAM
Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
DevOps Kaizen: Practical Steps to Start & Sustain a Transformation
Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate MUDA
Support and Initiate a DevOps Transformation
The Satir Change Model
CHAPTER 2: UNDERSTANDING THE VALUE STREAM. SECTION 2. THE THREE WAYS OF DEVOPS
The Three Ways: The Principles Underpinning DevOps
A Personal Reinterpretation of The Three Ways
Docker and the Three Ways of DevOps Part 1: The First Way - Systems Thinking
Docker and the Three Ways of DevOps
CHAPTER 2: UNDERSTANDING THE VALUE STREAM. SECTION 3. THE FIRST WAY - FLOW
3.1. The First Way - Flow (Part I)
David Anderson Kanban At Q Con
Kanbans and DevOps: Resource Guide for “The Phoenix Project” (Part 2)
Personal Kanban: Mapping Work|Navigating Life
Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
3.2. The First Way - Flow (Part II)
The Small Batches Principle
Watch This One Piece Flow vs. Mass Production Envelope Stuffing Lean Thinking Simulation
Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time (Chapter 4)
The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
3.3. The First Way - Flow (Part III)
David Anderson Kanban at Q Con
DOES15 - Dominica DeGrandis - The Shape of Uncertainty
3.4. The First Way - Flow (Part IV)
Lean software development
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
3.5. The First Way - Flow (Part V)
Theory of Constraints
Beyond the Goal: Eliyahu Goldratt Speaks on the Theory of Constraints (Your Coach in a Box)
CHAPTER 2: UNDERSTANDING THE VALUE STREAM. SECTION 4. THE SECOND WAY - FEEDBACK
4.1. The Second Way - Feedback (Part I)
Toufic Boubez - Simple math for anomaly detection
Toufic Boubez - Some Simple Math for Anomaly Detection
The Art of Monitoring
Monitoring with Graphite Tracking Dynamic Host and Application Metrics at Scale
Monitorama’s Videos
4.2. The Second Way - Feedback (Part II)
Jesse Robbins - GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction
Resilience Engineering: Learning To Embrace Failure
Fault Injection in Production - making the case for resilience testing
The Netflix Simian Army
FIT: Failure Injection Testing
4.3. The Second Way - Feedback (Part III)
Dave Zwieback - DevOps keeps it cool with ICE
Dave Snowden - The Cynefin Framework
John Allspaw and Jesse Robbins - Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time (Chapter 7)
Jeff Sussna - Empathy: The Essence of DevOps
Jennifer Davis and Katherine Daniels - Effective DevOps
Christina Maslach - Reversing Burnout
Botchagalupe on Burnout
4.4. The Second Way - Feedback (Part IV)
Feature flags, dark launches, and canary releases for all: LaunchDarkly, first year in review
Feature flags and canary, dark, and A/B releases
How does Easy manage development and operations?
Tom Limoncello - The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2
CHAPTER 2: UNDERSTANDING THE VALUE STREAM. SECTION 5. THE THIRD WAY - CULTURE OF CONTINUAL EXPERIMENTATION AND LEARNING
5.1. The Third Way - Culture of Continual Experimentation and Learning (Part I)
Bethany Macri - Morgue: Helping Better Understand Events by Building a Post Mortem Tool
5.3. The Third Way - Culture of Continual Experimentation and Learning (Part III)
Mike Rother - Introduction to the Improvement Kata
DOES15 - Courtney Kissler & Jason Josephy - Mindsets and Metrics and Mainframes... Oh My!
DOES15 - Steven Spear - Creating High Velocity Organizations
How Many Times Do You Pull the Andon Cord Each Day
Botchagalupe presentations
John Kotter & Dan Cohen - The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
Velocity NYC 2013 - Andrew Clay Shafer - There Is No Talent Shortage
Drake Baer - How Changing One Habit Helped Quintuple Alcoa's Income
CHAPTER 3: GETTING STARTED WITH DEVOPS. SECTION 1. PICKING A VALUE STREAM
1.1. Picking a Value Stream (Part I)
Erik Hollnagel - The ETTO Principle - Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off
1.2. Picking a Value Stream (Part II)
Damon Edwards presentation
Erik Hollnagel - The ETTO Principle - Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off
Mike Rother - Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate MUDA
Karen Martin and Mike Osterling - Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
1.3. Picking a Value Stream (Part III)
Paula Thrasher - Three Steps to Change: Lessons from Battling Bureaucracy (DOES15)
Courtney Kissler - Nordstrom-Transforming to a Culture of Continuous Improvement (DOES14)
Jody Mulkey - DevOps in the Enterprise: A Transformation Journey
1.4. Picking a Value Stream (Part IV)
DOES15 - Heather Mickman & Ross Clanton - (Re)building an Engineering Culture: DevOps at Target
1.5. Picking a Value Stream (Part V)
DOES15 - Heather Mickman & Ross Clanton - (Re)building an Engineering Culture: DevOps at Target
1.6. Picking a Value Stream (Part VI)
Martin Fowler - Strangler Application
Acceptance test-driven development
DOES15 - Scott Prugh & Erica Morrison - Conway & Taylor Meet the Strangler (v2.0)
DOES14 - Scott Prugh - CSG - DevOps and Lean in Legacy Environments
1.7. Picking a Value Stream (Part VII)
DOES15 - Carmen DeArdo - How DevOps Is Enabling Lean Application Development
1.8. Picking a Value Stream (Part VIII)
Ernest Mueller, James Wickett, Karthik Gaekwad - The Story of DevOps at National Instruments
DOES15 - Ernest Mueller - DevOps Transformations at National Instruments
CHAPTER 3: GETTING STARTED WITH DEVOPS. SECTION 2. UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
2.2. Understanding Organizational Change (Part II)
Kelly McGonigal - How to make stress your friend
Carol S. Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Kelly McGonigal - The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
2.3. Understanding Organizational Change (Part III)
David Marquet - Turn the Ship Around! How to Create Leaders at Every Level
Simon Sinek - How Great Leaders Inspire Action
2.4. Understanding Organizational Change (Part IV)
Abhimanyu Ghoshal - Two-pizza teams: Werner Vogels on Amazon's secrets for innovation at TNV Europe Conference
Sam Newman - Building Microservices
2.7. Understanding Organizational Change (Part VII)
Pedro Canahuati - Growing from the Few to the Many: Scaling the Operations Organization at Facebook
Velocity 2012 - Jesse Robbins - Changing Culture & Being a Force for Awesome
2.8. Understanding Organizational Change (Part VIII)
561: NUMMI 2015 - This American Life
CHAPTER 3: GETTING STARTED WITH DEVOPS. SECTION 3. ENABLING TRANSFORMATION
3.2./3.3. Enabling Transformation (Part II)
Jennifer Davis and Katherine Daniels - Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity and Tooling at Scale
John Kotter - The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
CHAPTER 4: THE FIRST WAY - ACCELERATE FLOW. SECTION 1. CONTINUOUS DELIVERY PATTERNS AND PRACTICES
1.1. Continuous Delivery Patterns and Practices
James Womack and Daniel Jones - How to Root Out Waste and Pursue Perfection
Jez Humble and David Farley - Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
Thomas A. Limoncelli - The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2
Jennifer Davis and Katherine Daniels - Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale
CHAPTER 4: THE FIRST WAY - ACCELERATE FLOW. SECTION 2. THE DEPLOYMENT PIPELINE
2.1. The Deployment Pipeline (Part I)
Tom Limoncelli - The Practice of System and Network Administration
Jez Humble and David Farley - Continuous Delivery
Damon Edwards and John Willis - Better, Faster AND Cheaper. How?
2.2. The Deployment Pipeline (Part II)
Damon Edwards - what is a Service Delivery Platform?
2.3. The Deployment Pipeline (Part III)
Mitchell Hashimoto - Vagrant: Up and Running
2.4. The Deployment Pipeline (Part IV)
Botchagalupe - Immutable Delivery (The Agile Admin)
CHAPTER 4: THE FIRST WAY - ACCELERATE FLOW. SECTION 3. CREATING CONSISTENCY IN THE PIPELINE
3.1. Creating Consistency in the Pipeline (Part I)
Netflix - Jason Chan - Real World Cloud Application Security
Randy Bias - Pets vs. Cattle: The Elastic Cloud Story
3.2. Creating Consistency in the Pipeline (Part II)
Steve Traugott - Why Order Matters: Turing Equivalence in Automated Systems Administration
3.3. Creating Consistency in the Pipeline (Part III)
Rob Hirschfeld - Digital Rebar Quick Start to K8s
Abe Hassan Blog - baked servers vs fried servers
Cloudinit
Cloudinit on RedHat
3.5. Creating Consistency in the Pipeline (Part V)
Kief Morris - Infrastructure as Code
3.7. Creating Consistency in the Pipeline (Part VII)
The Netflix Tech Blog - Building with Legos
Kief Morris - ImmutableServer
3.8. Creating Consistency in the Pipeline (Part VIII)
John Willis - Docker and the Three Ways of DevOps
Gartner - Assessing Docker and Containers for Five Software Delivery Use Cases
DOES15 - Joshua Corman and John Willis - Immutable Awesomeness
Steve Traugott - Why Order Matters: Turing Equivalence in Automated Systems Administration
DockerCon2014 - Michael Bryzek - Immutable Infrastructure with Docker and EC2
3.9. Creating Consistency in the Pipeline (Part IX)
GlueCon 2015 - Jerome Petazzoni - Immutable Infrastructure with Docker and Containers
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
socketplane/docker-ovs
CHAPTER 4: THE FIRST WAY - ACCELERATE FLOW. SECTION 4. AUTOMATED TESTING
4.1. Automated Testing (Part I)
Elisabeth Hendrickson - Agile Testing: Nine Principles and Six Concrete Practices for Testing on Agile Teams
Test-driven development
4.2. Automated Testing (Part II)
Eric Evans - Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Dan North - What's in a Story?
James Wickett - Hands-on GauntIt: Security Testing for Developers
Petr Lapukhov (Facebook) - Move Fast, Unbreak Things!
4.3. Automated Testing (Part III)
Open Mic 2: Continuous Deployment and Operations Dashboards at kaChing (Wealthfront)
4.5. Automated Testing (Part V)
Gene Kim - The Amazing DevOps Transformation Of The HP LaserJet Firmware Team (Gary Gruver)
Wing break Test on 787 Dreamliner
Rugged Software
4.6. Automated Testing (Part VI)
Eran Messeri - What goes wrong when thousands of engineers share the same continuous build?
Intuit Prepares for Tax Day Filing Surge with SOASTA (case study)
CHAPTER 4: THE FIRST WAY - ACCELERATE FLOW. SECTION 5. DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIES
5.1. Deployment Strategies (Part I)
Tom Limoncelli - The Practice of Cloud System Administration Book
5.3. Deployment Strategies (Part III)
John Allspaw and Paul Hammond - 10+ Deploys Per Day
Eugene Letuchy - Facebook Chat
CHAPTER 5: THE SECOND WAY - APLIFY FEEDBACK LOOPS. SECTION 1.CREATING A SERVICE RELIABILITY CULTURE
1.1. Creating a Service Reliability Culture (Part I)
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
1.3. Creating a Service Reliability Culture (Part III)
USENIX 2014 - Ben Treynor Sloss - Keys to SRE
1.4. Creating a Service Reliability Culture (Part IV)
Site reliability Engineering
1.5. Creating a Service Reliability Culture (Part V)
Wired - Her Code Got Humans on the Moon - And Invented Software Itself
Gene Kranz - Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
Diane Vaughan - The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
Steven Spear - The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition
1.6. Creating a Service Reliability Culture (Part VI)
John Allspaw and Paul Hammond - 10+ Deploys Per Day
John Allspaw - Trade-Offs Under Pressure: Heuristics and Observations of Teams Resolving Internet Service Outages
John Allspaw - Incident Response: Trade-offs Under Pressure
Amazon.com - Summary of the AWS Service Event in the US East Region
CHAPTER 5: THE SECOND WAY - AMPLIFY FEEDBACK LOOPS. SECTION 2. FAST FEEDBACK
2.1. Fast Feedback (Part I)
Jesse Robbins, Kripa Krishnan, John Allspaw, and Tom Limoncelli - Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure
Tom Limoncelli - The Practice of Cloud System Administration, vol 2
Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, and Barry O'Reilly - Lean Enterprise
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis - The DevOps Handbook
Jesse Robbins - GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction
John Allspaw - Fault Injection in Production: Making the Case for Resilience Testing
The Netflix Tech Blog - The Netflix Simian Army
The Netflix Tech Blog - FIT: Failure Injection Testing
2.2. Fast Feedback (Part II)
Peter Senge - The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Donella Meadows - Thinking in Systems
InfoQ - Dan North - Making a Sandwich - Effective Feedback Techniques
Jeff Sussna - Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy
2.3. Fast Feedback (Part III)
John Allspaw - Go or No-Go: Operability and Contingency Planning at Etsy.com
2.4. Fast Feedback (Part IV)
Attlassian Blogs - Sean Regan - What is ChatOps? A guide to its evolution, adoption, and significance
Jesse Newland - ChatOps at GitHub
Jason Hand (VictorOps) - Real World ChatOps
Jason Hand (VictorOps) - ChatOps Unplugged: A Beginner's Guide
GitHub Blog - Say Hello to Hubot
CHAPTER 5: THE SECOND WAY - AMPLIFY FEEDBACK LOOPS. SECTION 3. UNDERSTANDING MONITORING
3.1. Understanding Monitoring (Part I)
Kevin Behr, Gene Kim, George Spafford - The Visible Ops Handbook
Mike Brittain - Tracking Every Release (Code as Craft Blog)
Petr Lapukhov (Facebook) - Move Fast, Unbreak Things!
ChefConf 2016 - Veresh Sita - Alaska Airlines
3.2. Understanding Monitoring (Part II)
Tom Limoncelli - The Practice of Cloud System Administration
James Turnbull - The Art of Monitoring
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis - The DevOps Handbook
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
iSixSigma Blog - Variation - The Root of All Process Evil
The Flaw of Averages
Michael Kopp - Why Averages Suck and Percentiles are Great
Khan Academy
3.3. Understanding Monitoring (Part III)
Theo Schlossnagle - Adaptive Availability for Quality of Service
Theo Schlossnagle - Adaptive Availability
3.4. Understanding Monitoring (Part IV)
Jason Dixon - Monitoring with Graphite
James Turnbull - The Art of Monitoring
Varun Chandola, Arindam Banerjee, & Vipin Kumar - Anomaly Detection: A Suervey
The Netflix Tech Blog - RAD - Outlier Detection on Big Data
David Goldberg - Statistical Anomaly Detection
David Golberg, Yinan Shan - The Importance of Features for Statistical Anomaly Detection
CHAPTER 5: THE SECOND WAY - AMPLIFY FEEDBACK LOOPS. SECTION 4. UNDERSTANDING COMPLEXITY
4.1. Understanding Complexity (Part I)
Eliyahu Goldratt - Beyond the Goal: Theory of Constraints
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford - The Phoenix Project
Eliyahu Goldratt - The Goal
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis - The DevOps Handbook
Mark Burgess - In Search of Certainty: The science of our information infrastructure
Jeff Sussna - Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy
Jeff Sussna - From Cybernetics to DevOps and Beyond (DevOps Days Belgium, 2014)
David Snowden, Mary Boone - A Leader's Framework for Decision Making
Cognitive Edge
4.2. Understanding Complexity (Part II)
Mike Nygard - Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
DevOps Cafe - Episode 50: Adrian Cockcroft
Martin Fowler - CircuitBreaker
Ben Christensen - Introducing Hystrix for Resilience Engineering (The Netflix Tech Blog)
4.3. Understanding Complexity (Part III)
Mark Burgess - Thinking in Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation
Mark Burgess - In Search of Certainty: The science of our information infrastructure
Jeff Sussna - Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy
John Willis - Promise Theory for Dummies
CHAPTER 6: THE THIRD WAY - ACCELERATE LEARNING. SECTION 1. LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS
1.1. Learning Organizations (Part I)
Andrew Clay Shafer - There Is No Talent Shortage (Velocity NYC 2013)
Andrew Clay Shafer - DevOps ... What Is Missing? What Is Next?
Steven Spear and Kent Bowen - Decoding The DNA of the Toyota Production System
Mike Rother - Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
W. Edwards Deming - Out of Crisis
W. Edwards Deming - 14 Points
W. Edwards Deming - The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education
John Willis' Ignite talk - DevOps and Dr. Deming's 14 Points (Velocity NY 2014)
John Willis - Deming to DevOps: The Science Behind DevOps
1.2. Learning Organizations (Part II)
Peter Senge - The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Mark Smith (Infoed) - Peter Senge and the learning organization
Edward Muzio - The Ladder of Inference Creates Bad Judgement
Trevor Maber - Rethinking Thinking
1.3. Learning Organizations (Part III)
Victoria Marsick - The Dimensions of a Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ)
Karen Watkins and Victoria Marsick - Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaire: Introduction
1.4. Learning Organizations (Part IV)
Reed Hastings - Seven Aspects of Our Culture
Patty McCord: A Culture of Innovation
CHAPTER 6: THE THIRD WAY - ACCELERATE LEARNING. SECTION 2. COMMUNICATION
2.1. Communication (Part I)
John Willis - Neo Taylorism or DevOps Anti Patterns
2.3. Communication (Part III)
Dan North - Making a Sandwich: Effective Feedback Techniques
Ben Linders - Applying Feedback Techniques
2.4. Communication (Part IV)
Rebecca Miller-Webster - Frameworks for Feedback
The Feeling Wheel
CHAPTER 6: THE THIRD WAY - ACCELERATE LEARNING. SECTION 3. BLAMELESS CULTURE
3.1. Blameless Culture (Part I)
Sidney Dekker - The Field Guide to Understanding "Human Error"
Sidney Dekker - System Failure, Human Error: Who's to Blame? (DevOps Days Brisbane, 2014)
3.2. Blameless Culture (Part II)
Sidney Dekker - Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability
3.3. Blameless Culture (Part III)
Dave Zwieback - The Human Side of Postmortems: Managing Stress and Cognitive Biases
John Allspaw - Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture
3.4. Blameless Culture (Part IV)
VictorOps - Blameless Post-Mortems ... and how to do them
Dave Zwieback - Beyond Blame: Learning from Failure and Success