The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

In The Unicorn Project, Gene Kim defines five ideals of DevOps:24 1.Locality and Simplicity: alleviate dependencies between teams and components. 2.Focus, Flow, and Joy: the smooth flow of work that enables focus and joy. 3.Improvement of Daily Work: continuously improve and pay down technical debt. 4.Psychological Safety: a top predictor of team p

Engineers building new features should be able to push code changes live themselves, following peer review, except in the case of high-risk changes. However, they must be available when their changes go live so they can support them. Many new code changes (particularly high-risk ones) should be launched “dark” (as described in Chapter 8) and either

When this book was first published in January 2013, DevOps was very much in its early years,