Would it be okay if y'all if I turned this into a blog post for my
employer's site? I'm happy to link back to LOPSA to give credit.
But I betcha lots of folks would be interested in your (plural)
recommendations.
--Esther
Matt Simmons wrote:
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
<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
<mailto: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!
--
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*Daniel Rich* <dr...@lopsa.org <mailto:dr...@lopsa.org>>
President
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recognize, educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to serve
the public through education and outreach on system administration
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