June 2011
Intermediate to advanced
90 pages
2h 21m
English
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Further Reading
The following books and websites are excellent resources for anyone interested in exploring the ideas and values espoused in this book:
Web Operations, by John Allspaw and Jesse Robbins (O’Reilly)
Continuous Delivery, by Jez Humble and David Farley (Addison Wesley)
The Rspec Book, by David Chelimsky et al., (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Beautiful Testing, edited by Adam Goucher and Tim Riley (O’Reilly)
The Art of Agile Development, by James Shore (O’Reilly)
Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development, by Ken Pugh (Addison Wesley)
Extreme Programming Explained, by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres (Addison Wesley, both 1st and 2nd editions)
James Shore’s blog—http://jamesshore.com/Blog/
The website of Ron Jeffries—http://xprogramming.com/index.php
Bill Wake’s http://xp123.com/
Patrick Debois—http://www.jedi.be/blog/
Matthias Marschall and Dan Ackerson—http://www.agileweboperations.com/
My own blog—http://agilesysadmin.net
You’ll also find a warm welcome and like-minded people in the devops, infra-talk and #chef channels on irc.freenode.net.
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