New Books Added to the Sysadmin Reading List!
I’ve just added some more amazing books to the sysadmin reading list page. These are books that I’ve read over the last year which are so spectacular that I think every sysadmin (or aspiring sysadmin) needs to read and digest them.
Some standouts from the list above:
The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction
I watched a project manager with no hands-on technical experience go through this book. After about a week, he was comfortable moving around on the command line, (git) pulling down the latest version of the code that his team was working on, running shell scripts, and doing other basic Linux/Unix tasks. I think it’s fair to say that this book put him on track for becoming a savage beast (for a PM).
The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2
This is one of the greatest system administration / infrastructure / DevOps / System Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Platform Engineering books I’ve ever read.
Do you remember how the UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition
That’s what this book does, except for modern large-scale infrastructure (hundreds/thousands of servers). It will show you how to design infrastructure properly. It will teach you how to think about reliability. It will show you how to take (most of) the pain out of monitoring and alerting.
I can’t say enough good things about it. Seriously, if you want to be a Google/Amazon/<insert-enormous-tech-company-here>-level Admin, this book will introduce you to the skills you need.
Buy it, now!
Okay, I’m ending this post here because I need to get to work — a place where I will undoubtedly use the skills you can learn from these books.
So read these books, and then get out there and start doing this stuff!