This is a list of books (in no particular order) we keep in our library(s) which we love and recommend.
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity | Alan Cooper |
| Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days | by Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz |
| Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages | by Carlota Perez |
| The Digital Transformation Playbook: Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age | by David L. Rogers |
| Digital to the Core: Remastering Leadership for Your Industry, Your Enterprise, and Yourself | by Mark Raskino and Graham Waller |
| Digital Vortex: How Today's Market Leaders Can Beat Disruptive Competitors at Their Own Game | by Jeff Loucks, James Macaulay, Andy Noronha and Michael Wade |
| Be the Business: CIOs in the New Era of IT | by Martha Heller |
| No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends | by Richard Dobbs, Dr. James Manyika and Dr. Jonathan Woetzel |
| The New IT: How Technology Leaders are Enabling Business Strategy in the Digital Age | by Jill Dyché |
| Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale | by Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, and Barry O'Reilly |
| Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation | by George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, and Andrew McAfee |
| The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations | by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois and John Willis |
| Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation | by Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds |
| Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition | by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein |
| The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win | by Steve Blank |
| Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams | by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister |
| Slack, Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency | by Tom DeMarco |
| Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software | by Charles Petzold |
| JavaScript: The Good Parts | by Douglas Crockford |
| Working Effectively with Legacy Code | by Michael Feathers |
| Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications | by Toby Segaran |
| The Design of Everyday Things | by Donald A. Norman |
| The Non-Designer's Design Book | Robin Williams |
| On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction | by William Zinsser |
| The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger | by Marc Levinson |
| Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship | by Robert C. Martin |
| Programming Pearls | by Jon Bentley |
| Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) | by Ralph Leighton, Richard P. Feynman |
| Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability | by Steve Krug |
| Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty | by David Kadavy |
| Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed | by Leo Janos, Ben R. Rich |
| Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days | by Jessica Livingston |
| The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles | by Shimon Schocken, Noam Nisan |
| Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science | by Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, Oren Patashnik |
| A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy | by William B. Irvine |
| The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) | by Clayton M. Christensen |
| Purely Functional Data Structures | by Chris Okasaki |
| Confessions of a Necromancer | by Pieter Hintjens |
| Social Architecture | by Pieter Hintjens |
| Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution | by Pieter Hintjens |
| Implementing Domain-Driven Design | by Vaughn Vernon |
| Domain Driven Design Distilled | by Vaughn Vernon |
| Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects | by Gojko Adzic |
| The Phoenix Project | by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford |
| Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk | by Paul Duvall, Steve Matyas, and Andrew Glover |
| Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation | by Jez Humble and David Farley |
| The Visible Ops Handbook | by Kevin Behr, Gene Kim and George Spafford |
| DevOps for Developers | by Michael Hüttermann |
| The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement | by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox Author, David Whitford |
| What is DevOps? | by Mike Loukides |
| Building a DevOps Culture | by Mandi Walls |
| Next Gen DevOps: Creating the DevOps Organisation | by Grant Smith |
| The IT Manager’s Guide to Continuous Delivery: Delivering Software in Days | by Andrew Phillips, Michiel Sens |
| Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale | by Gary Gruver, Tommy Mouser |
| The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses | by Eric Ries |
| Thinking in Systems: A Primer | by Donella H. Meadows |
| An Introduction to General Systems Thinking | by Gerald M. Weinberg |
| The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development | by Donald G. Reinertsen |
| Out of the Crisis | by W. Edwards Deming |
| In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure | by Mark Burgess |
| Thinking in Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation | by Mark Burgess |
| Promise Theory: Principles and Applications | by Mark Burgess |
| Principles of Network and System Administration | by Mark Burgess |
| Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results | by Mike Rother |
| Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others | by Brian W. Fitzpatrick |
| Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability | by Sidney Dekker |
| The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off: Why Things That Go Right Sometimes Go Wrong | by Erik Hollnagel |
| Poke the Box Hardcover | by Seth Godin |
| Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time | by John Allspaw, Jesse Robbins |
| Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business | by Avid J. Anderson |
| Introduction To Real ITSM | by Rob England |
| Crossing the Chasm | by Geoffrey A. Moore |
| The Innovator's Hypothesis | by Michael Schrage |
| Time Management for System Administrators | Thomas A. Limoncelli |
| Freedom's Forge | by Arthur Herman |
This list is inspired by these sources and others:
- https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2016/11/2016-digital-transformation-book-contest
- http://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books-unique-users/
- http://hintjens.com/books
- https://devops.com/five-great-books-on-devops/
- https://blog.versionone.com/the-7-best-devops-books/
- https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-books-on-devops
Additionally, books authored by Red Hat staff:
This is a list of books (in no particular order) we keep in our library(s) which we love and recommend.
| Title | Red Hat Author(s) |
|---|---|
| OpenStack Security Guide | Keith Basil, Shawn Wells |
| Getting Started with OpenShift | Steve Pousty |
| Raspberry Pi Hacks | Ruth Suehle, Tom Callaway |
| Learning OpenShift | Grant Shipley |
| OpenShift for Developers | Grant Shipley and Graham Dumpleton |
| The Foundation for an open source city | Jason Hibbets |
| Testing Java Microservices | Alex Soto, Jason Porter |
| Microservices for Java Developers | Christian Posta |
| Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook | Scott Cranton and Jakub Korab |
| Apache Cookbook | Rich Bowen |
| Continuous Enterprise Development in Java | Andrew Lee Rubinger and Alask Knutsen |
| Java 8 in Action | Mario Fusco |
| Java EE 7 Essentials | Arun Gupta |
| Minecraft Modding with Forge | Arun Gupta |
| Docker for Java Developers | Arun Gupta |
| Camel Design Patterns | Bilgin Ibryam |
| The Open Organization | Jim Whitehurst |
| Mastering Cloudforms Automation | Peter McGowan |
| OpenStack Administration with Ansible | Walter Bently |