Book Reviews
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Book review: Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides (1994)
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Author’s purpose The purpose of the authors is to provide a catalog of the most important design patterns in a format…
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Review: Django for APIs by William S. Vincent
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1. Author’s purpose The purpose of the author is to provide a resource for developers to learn the Django REST Framework…
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Book Review: The Practice Of System And Network Administration Third Edition (2017) by Thomas A. Limoncelly, Strate R. Chalup & Christina J. Hogan
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1. Author’s purpose The goal of the book is to teach System Administrators how to make their job right. This book…
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Book Review: Ansible for DevOps, Server and configuration management for humans (2020) by Jeff Geerling
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1. Author’s purpose The author’s purpose with this book is to provide the reader with intermediate to expert-level knowledge of Ansible…
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Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems (2017) by Martin Kleppmann
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Author’s purpose The author’s purpose with this book is to “… explore how to create applications and systems that are reliable,…
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Book Review: Terraform Up & Runnning (2nd edition) by Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman
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The purpose of Jim Brikman by writing Terraform Up & Running is to ‘help developers become fluent in terraform’ (p.8).The themes…
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Book Review: Networking for System Administrators (IT Mastery Book 5) by Michael W. Lucas
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The purpose of Michael W Lucas with Networking for System Administrators is to teach System Administrators the basics of networking. The…
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Book Review: sed & awk, 2nd Edition by Dale Dougherty and Arnold Robbins
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As a technical book, the objective of the authors is to motivate and teach the reader how to use SED and…
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Book Review: Practice of Cloud System Administration, The: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2 by Thomas Limoncelli, Strata Chalup, Christina J. Hogan (2015)
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1. Authors’ purpose The objective that Limoncelli, Chalup, and Hogan had when writing the book was to help the reader “(…)…
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Book Review: Unix and Linux System Administration (Fifth Edition) by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley, and Dan Mackin
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Book Description The Book Unix and Linux System Administration (Fifth Edition) by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley,…
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Clean Architecture: A Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design by Bob Martin
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In this book, Bob Martin teaches us how to create a good architecture for our systems. The idea of architecture is…
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Book Review: Time Management for System Administrators. By Thomas Limoncelly
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Introduction In Time management for System Administrators, Thomas Limoncelly provides specific advice for System Administrators concerning Time Management.Why do System Administrators…
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Book Review: The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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Summary The Phoenix Project is the top-rated book for Devops.It is a novel, with a setting in IT, that promotes DevOps…
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Book Review: Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought by Drew Neil
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In Practical Vim, Drew Neil gives us an all-around perspective of how to work with Vim.The author divides this book into…
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Book review: Clean Coder by Robert (Bob) Martin.
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In this book, Bob Martin defines what professionalism is in the software industry. This is a “soft” book because its focus…
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Book Review: Clean Code A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Martin, Robert C.)
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In this book, “Uncle Bob” teaches us how to write clean (good) code. But why is clean code important? Because, to…
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Book Review: The Debian Administrator’s Handbook (Raphael Hertzog and Roland Mas)
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This book trains you to be competent in managing Debian servers. Is this important or useful? Well, more than 10% of…
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Book Review: Pro Git. 2nd edition.
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If your job involves some aspect of programming, I recommend that you read Pro Git. Git is the new standard for…