5 must-read engineering books like Ansible for DevOps by Jeff Geerling

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Ansible for DevOps

By: Jeff Geerling

4.29

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Ansible is a simple, but powerful, server and configuration management tool (with a few other trick…

If you liked the engineering plot in Ansible for DevOps by Jeff Geerling , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Pale Fire

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more

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2. The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life

By: J.L. Collins , Mr. Money Mustache

4.00

Format: 240 pages,

"In the dark, bewildering, trap-infested jungle of misinformation and opaque riddles that is the wo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Bird by Bird

By: Anne Lamott

4.24

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • reference
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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4. Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days

By: Alastair Reynolds

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Diamond Dogs The planet Golgotha--supposedly lifeless--resides in a remote star system, far from th… read more

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5. Redemption Ark

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the In… read more

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6. Redshirts

By: John Scalzi

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of… read more

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"Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

7. Black Ops (Expeditionary Force, #4)

By: Craig Alanson

3.92

Format: None pages,

The elite crew of the pirate ship UNS Flying Dutchman had a simple mission: determining whether the… read more

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8. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

By: Dave Thomas , Andy Hunt

3.28

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through th… read more

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9. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

By: Gene Kim , George Spafford , Kevin Behr

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bi… read more

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10. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

By: David Allen

4.01

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and ma… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • reference
"My mission is to create a world where there are no problems only projects."

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

"Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist."

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

"Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stres…"

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

"Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignmen…"

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

11. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

By: Amy Wallace , Ed Catmull

2.83

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"What does it mean to manage well?" From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter)… read more

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12. SpecOps (Expeditionary, #2)

By: Craig Alanson

4.49

Format: 563 pages,

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13. Paradise (Expeditionary Force, #3)

By: Craig Alanson

3.68

Format: 208 pages,

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14. Clean Architecture

By: Robert C. Martin

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Building upon the success of best-sellers The Clean Coder and Clean Code, legendary software crafts… read more

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  • computers
  • engineering
  • programming
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
"The only way to go fast, is to go well."

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

"All race conditions, deadlock conditions, and concurrent update problems are due to mutable variables."

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

"I'm a programmer. I like programming. And the best way I've found to have a positive impact on code is to write it."

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

"Any organisation that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organisation's communication structure"

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

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15. Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1)

By: Craig Alanson

4.26

Format: 299 pages, Paperback

We were fighting on the wrong side, of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news.  The R… read more

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"The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically ad…"

-Craig Alanson, Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1)

Cover of Zero Hour (Expeditionary Force, #5) by Craig Alanson

16. Zero Hour (Expeditionary Force, #5)

By: Craig Alanson

4.37

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite Expeditionary Force of soldiers and pilots … read more

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"There was a nightmarish period of two days when we had to jump every thirty three minutes, because that is how long it took a pair of Thuranin cruisers to find us after every jump."

-Craig Alanson, Zero Hour (Expeditionary Force, #5)

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17. What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?

By: Stephen Wolfram

3.91

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

Nobody expected this—not even its creators: ChatGPT has burst onto the scene as an AI capable of wr… read more

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  • computers
  • engineering
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • computer science
  • technology
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18. Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems

By: Joe Reis

4.25

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scient… read more

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  • programming
  • engineering
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
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19. Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)

By: Marianne Bellotti

4.16

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Kill It with Fire chronicles the challenges of dealing with aging computer systems, along with soun… read more

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  • computers
  • engineering
  • programming
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
Cover of Ansible for DevOps by Jeff Geerling

20. Ansible for DevOps

By: Jeff Geerling

4.29

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Ansible is a simple, but powerful, server and configuration management tool (with a few other trick… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Geerling's Ansible for DevOps book and Jeff Geerling's Ansible for DevOps

  • computers
  • engineering
  • programming
  • science
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • reference
  • technology
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21. Podman in Action: Secure, rootless containers for Kubernetes, microservices, and more

By: Daniel Walsh

4.45

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The next generation of containers is here. Learn Podman directly from its creator, discover its exc… read more

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  • computer science
  • programming

8 must-read nonfiction books like Ansible for DevOps by Jeff Geerling

Transform Your Habits

The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life

J.L. Collins , Mr. Money Mustache

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

David Allen

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Clean Architecture

Robert C. Martin

4.23

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18 best-selling fiction books like Zero Hour (Expeditionary Force, #5) by Craig Alanson

Transform Your Habits

For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)

Ray Porter , Dennis E. Taylor

4.37

Transform Your Habits

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)

Dennis E. Taylor

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Fear the Sky (The Fear Saga, #1)

Stephen Moss

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Ghosts (Hell Divers, #2)

Nicholas Sansbury Smith

4.23

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