We had this discussion at work the other day, so some things are fresh on my mind.
Tom's books, of course: Practice of Cloud System Administration http://www.amazon.com/Practice-Cloud-System-Administration-Distributed-ebook/dp/B00N7N2CRQ/ Practice of System and Network Administration http://www.amazon.com/Practice-System-Network-Administration-Edition-ebook/dp/B004JLMUJ0/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0E6HKBTR7AJREH3DYEGQ Time Management for System Administrators http://www.amazon.com/Management-System-Administrators-Thomas-Limoncelli-ebook/dp/B0026OR2WM/ Antifragile (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) http://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Incerto-ebook/dp/B0083DJWGO/ The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Improbable-Fragility-Incerto-ebook/dp/B00139XTG4/ Promise Theory (Jan Bergstra / Mark Burgess) http://www.amazon.com/Promise-Theory-Jan-Bergstra-ebook/dp/B00IAQQ8PM Promise You a Rose Garden (Mark Burgess) http://markburgess.org/rosegarden.pdf The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error (Sidney Dekker) http://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error-ebook/dp/B00BL0OZ0E/ Drift Into Failure (Sydney Dekker) http://www.amazon.com/Drift-into-Failure-Components-Understanding-ebook/dp/B009KOKXKY The Phoenix Project (Gene Kim / Kevin Behr / George Spafford) http://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business-ebook/ The Visible Ops Handbook (Gene Kim / George Spafford / Kebin Behr) http://www.amazon.com/The-Visible-Ops-Handbook-Implementing-ebook/dp/B002BWQBEE/ The Goal (Eli Goldratt / Jeff Cox / David Whitford) http://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement-ebook/dp/B002LHRM2O/ The Design of Everyday Things (Don Norman) http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expanded-ebook/dp/B00E257T6C Why Things Bite Back (Edward Tenner) http://www.amazon.com/Why-Things-Bite-Back-Consequences/dp/0679747567/ Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman) http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman-ebook/dp/B00555X8OA DNS and Bind (Cricket Liu / Paul Albitz) http://www.amazon.com/DNS-BIND-Cricket-Liu-ebook/dp/B0026OR2QS TCP/IP Illustrated (Kevin Fall / W Richard Stevens) http://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Protocols-Addison-Wesley-Professional-ebook/dp/B00666M52S sed and awk (Arnold Robbins / Dale Dougherty) http://www.amazon.com/sed-Nutshell-Handbooks-Arnold-Robbins-ebook/dp/B004D4Y302 Programming Perl (Brian d Foy / Tom Christiansen / Jon Orwant / Larry Wall) http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Perl-Unmatched-processing-scripting-ebook/dp/B007S291SA Programming Python (Mark Lutz) http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Python-Mark-Lutz-ebook/dp/B004GTLFJ6 Eloquent Ruby (Russ Olsen) http://www.amazon.com/Eloquent-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professional-ebook/dp/B004MMEJ36 Applied Cryptography (Bruce Schneier) http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Cryptography-Protocols-Algorithms-Source-ebook/dp/B000SEHPK6/ Windows PowerShell in Action (Bruce Payette) http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-Action-Second-Payette/dp/1935182137/ The Pragmatic Programmer (Andrew Hunt / David Thomas) http://www.amazon.com/The-Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master/dp/020161622X The Mythical Man-Month (Frederick Brooks) http://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineering-Anniversary/dp/0201835959 Version Control with Git (Jon Loeliger / Matthew McCullough) http://www.amazon.com/Version-Control-Git-collaborative-development/dp/1449316387 The only real gaps I can readily identify for my own use are a good, up to date (for whatever that means) Puppet book, and an IPv6 book that isn't terrible. The O'Reilly IPv6 Essentials (Silvia Hagen) http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Essentials-Silvia-Hagen-ebook/dp/B00KVPOT1K/ is the best I know of, and even it isn't great. There's apparently another one coming out in July (IPv6 Network Administration - http://www.amazon.com/Network-Administration-Niall-Richard-Murphy/dp/1491912596) but I haven't heard any early reviews. Great thread! --Matt On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Daniel Rich <dr...@lopsa.org> wrote: > My column didn't make the cut-off for this month's LOPSAgram, so I'm > posting it here as I need input from the membership: > > https://lopsa.org/content/thoughts-president-2015-apr > > To summarize, a week or so ago one of my co-workers asked me if LOPSA has > a recommended reading list for sysadmin topics. Since I had to answer "no" > and I want to see LOPSA developing more content for the sysadmin community, > I would like to get our member's input on what should be on such a list and > how the list should be structured. > > See the blog post above for the specifics and a few of my suggestions. > Feel free to either reply to me directly, comment on the post, or e-mail > the list with your suggestions. The list is probably the best choice > however, as I would love to see active discussion on this topic. > > Thanks! > > > -- > <http://lopsa.org/> > *Daniel Rich* <dr...@lopsa.org> > President > +1-408-627-4769 > To advance the practice of system administration; to support, recognize, > educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to serve the public through > education and outreach on system administration issues. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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