Resources

Tools, books, and resources I recommend for Cloud, SRE, and DevOps engineers.

📚 Essential Books

Site Reliability Engineering

Google

The foundational book on SRE practices from Google.

The Phoenix Project

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

A novel about IT, DevOps, and helping your business win.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

The big ideas behind reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems.

Accelerate

Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

The science of lean software and DevOps.

☁️ Cloud Platforms

AWS

Amazon Web Services - comprehensive cloud platform.

Google Cloud Platform

GCP - Google's cloud computing services.

Microsoft Azure

Cloud computing platform and services.

🔧 Essential Tools

Container Orchestration

Kubernetes

Production-grade container orchestration.

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Build, change, and version infrastructure safely.

Monitoring

Prometheus

Open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit.

Visualization

Grafana

Query, visualize, and alert on metrics.

GitOps

ArgoCD

Declarative GitOps continuous delivery.

CI/CD

Jenkins

Leading open source automation server.

💻 Development Setup

Code Editor

Visual Studio Code

Free, open-source code editor with great extensions.

Terminal

iTerm2

macOS terminal replacement with advanced features.

Containers

Docker Desktop

Containerization platform for developers.

Note: These are tools and resources I personally use or recommend. Some links may be affiliate links. I only recommend products and services that I genuinely believe in.