The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
67 people recommended it in 29 threads, 2013–2024.
6 commenters pushed back on it — worth reading the threads.
What people on Hacker News said
Great CI/CD book disguised as a novel, inspired me to push heavily for an improved build/release pipeline at work.
The Phoenix Project - I think HN audience would know it. Fun read.
The story makes a case for the practice of devops through the medium of long form fiction.
It is challenging to get an organization to change and to stop viewing IT/Ops as a cost center; (2) It is critical that IT/Ops understands how the business works; (3) Getting the organization to the point that The Thee Ways of DevOps are implemented requires cooperation between Dev and Ops to create the feedback loops necessary for both improvement of daily work and continual experimentation.
After reading "the Phoenix project" a couple of years ago a good deal of it was predictable but that doesn't prevent it from being very interesting.
The Phoenix Project is a fiction novel about an IT department for a large car company that experiences management dysfunction and battles frequent technical debt, but ultimately overcomes it by adopting the best practices of DevOps.
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