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Book Summary: The DevOps Handbook

Trev de Vroome
25 min readMar 2, 2020

The DevOps Handbook

The DevOps Handbook

by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, & John Willis

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Resonating Message

The goal of DevOps is to move away from the adversarial behaviour of teams, rallying instead toward common delivery goals by creating a safe, efficient, fast flow of valuable work to customers — minimising the overhead of developing, testing, and deploying code.

DevOps Practices — from ‘The DevOps Handbook’

Chapter in one sentence

  1. Imagine a World Where Dev & Ops Become DevOps (P17–44): The approach of developing a high performing, collaborative, scalable, safe, and value-driven organization requires the adoption of DevOps practices to eliminate the divide between Development and Operations.
  2. Agile, Continuous Delivery, and the Three Ways (P45-53): The goal is to have testing and operations happening simultaneously with development — collectively focusing on delivering value by reducing the lead time the customer experiences down to smallest possible time.
  3. The First Way — The Principles of Flow (P54–68): By identifying, measuring, and…

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Trev de Vroome
Trev de Vroome

Written by Trev de Vroome

Information technology program and agile transformation leader, change catalyst, and educator.

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summarized well! thanks a lot!