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Git Pocket Guide: Book Review

Once again this is not a sponsored review by my 2 cents.

This pocket guide it’s not an introduction to git the best practices, but it will show some options available and will boost your confidence and knowledge to solve most of the common problems. It’s full of practical examples with just enough deep dive into git to show you the things work under the hood.

This book is very good “to show you the tip of the iceberg”. Git, like any other distributed system, is complex, but most of its common features and operations that are easy to understand aren’t so difficult and if you’re not familiar with the CLI, there are plenty of tools to get you started. Continue reading “Git Pocket Guide: Book Review”

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Site Reliability Engineering

The moment I heard about this book, I wanted to read it. The title is self-explanatory: “How Google Runs Production Systems”. It looked so interesting to me that I immediately purchased it. At that time I had other books waiting on my bookshelf, but I was so impatient to read this one, that I admit I started immediately after the Phoenix Project. This one was the one that I wanted to read.

The contents in this book are well organised, and chapter after chapter it’s easy to accept the challenges that an organisation of this size had to conquer to become successful in managing the infrastructure, processes and people.

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The Practice of System and Network Administration (Third Edition) : Book Review

A few months ago, I read so many positive reviews on this book that I immediately purchased it.

I’ve always found it quite difficult to describe my job and role to other colleagues or friends and sometimes unsure that really understand it properly.
It’s such a broad set of roles and responsibilities that can be implicitly assigned or summarised into one depending on the company, by the size of the team and experience that I prefer to generalise as much as I can and be funny/ironic about it.

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