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Books that shaped our understanding of platform engineering, DevOps, and building reliable systems at scale. Each recommendation includes our detailed review and key takeaways.
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Team Topologies
by Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais
Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
The Phoenix Project
by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford
A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Accelerate
by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim
The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Site Reliability Engineering
by Niall Richard Murphy, Betsy Beyer & Chris Jones
How Google Runs Production Systems
Building Secure and Reliable Systems
by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer & Paul Blankinship
Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems
Cloud FinOps
by J.R. Storment & Mike Fuller
Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Financial Management
Start Your Platform Engineering Journey
New to platform engineering? We recommend starting with these three foundational books in order:
The Phoenix Project
Learn the fundamentals
Team Topologies
Understand team design
Accelerate
Measure success
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