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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Time Management for System Administrators: Book Review

I truly believe that often I read books at the right time,  some of them resonate with me in many ways, helping me looking things from a different perspective or simply realise that I share so many experiences with the author that make me feel involved with the whole story.

Time Management for System Administrators is exactly this type of book, peculiar for the focus on applying time management to a specific role in IT with the right amount of fun and analytic approach.

It was written a few years ago, but 99% of the content is still applicable and relevant today.

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