Reading List

Cloud & Architecture

• 37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation by Gregor Hohpe
• Cloud Strategy - An Architect Elevator Guide to Successful Cloud Migration by Gregor Hohpe

Machine Learning

• Dive into Deep Learning, an open source book executable in Jupyter Notebook, Google Colab & Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab

DevOps

• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford
• The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations by Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis & Jez Humble
• The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
• Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud by Kief Morris

Site Reliability Engineering

• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
• The site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE
• Building Secure & Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing and Maintaining Systems

Beyond Technology

• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
• How Google Works by Jonathan Rosenberg, Eric Schmidt
• The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World’s Most Disruptive Company by John Rossman
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox
• The Brand You 50 by Tom Peters
• Beyond Code: Learn to distinguish yourself in 9 simple steps! by Rajesh Setty
• Lead Quietly - Building a community of leaders who lead quietly with focus on community and collaboration, learning, vision, and balance. This is a blog by Don Frederiksen. I have found Don’s writings resonating with my thoughts and the blog is immensely resourceful. The last post was few years back but the writings are of relevance today as well.