The Jumpstart Up
The Jumpstart Up
A Practical Handbook For Leading Agile & DevOps Transformation
About the Book
- If you are leading a digital transformation in your orgaisation and you want to broaden your view with rich perspectives about DevOps 2.0 and other proven methodologies
- If you start developing your startup products and you want to set up an efficient development and operations process to handle your future growth
- If you would like to acquire a common general knowledge about development and operations productivity gains
- If you are a non-technical founder and you still want to understand what are the effecient techniques, architectures and tool that can help your IT development
- If you would like to know about this DevOps thing
This book will help you.
This book is published at a slow pace, I'll be more focusing on the quality than the quantity, that's why the price is actually low at the moment.
Table of Contents
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Preface
- Assumptions
- To Whom This Book Is Addressed
- Conventions used in this book
- How to Properly Read And Benefit From This Book
- How To Contribute
- About The Author
-
The Need For The Digital Transformation
- Once Upon A Time ..
- From CTO to CTO
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A Practical Introduction To DevOps
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What Is DevOps
- DevOps Values
- DevOps Principles
- DevOps Methods
- DevOps Practices
- DevOps Tools
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The 15-point DevOps Check List
- A Cross-Functional Team
- Communication Culture & Global Thinking
- Customer-Oriented Culture
- Source Control & Revisions
- Infrastructure As Code
- Routine Automation
- Self-Service Configuration
- Automated Builds
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Delivery
- Incremental Testing & Test-Driven Development
- Automated release management
- Shorter Development Cycles & Time-To-Market
- Key Performance Indicators
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The DevOps Feedback Loop
- Systems Thinking
- Amplifying Feedback Loops
- Culture Of Continual Experimentation And Learning
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What Is DevOps
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Setting Up A DevOps Culture
- Adopting DevOps - The Struggle
- A DevOps Team Or A Team Of DevOps ?
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Agility : Responding To Unpredictability Through Sprints
- What Is Agility
- Scrum
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Kanban
- Kanban for operations
- Scrum-ban
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XP
- Test Driven Development
- Using A Hybrid Methodology: Scrum And XP
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ITIL : Adapt It To Your Transformation
- What Is ITIL
- ITIL v3
- Implemeting ITIL With DevOps
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Lean : Applying Lean To Software Development
- Principles Of Lean
- Lean Software Developement
- Value Stream Mapping
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Research And Developement
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Choosing You Stack
- Programming Languages
- Databases
- Component-Based Software Engineering
- Ops Ready Products
- Scaling A Team
- Development Best Practices
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Building Saas (Software As A Service) Applications As An Example
- The Twelve-Factor App
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Choosing You Stack
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Continuous Integration
- What Is Continuous Integration
- Goals Of Continuous Integration
- Agile Software Facotry
- Version Control
- Release Automation
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Painless Software Quality — Code Defensively, Fail Early & Test Continuously
- What Is Quality Assurance
- Abstraction & Automation
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Code Defensively, Fail Early & Test Continuously
- Defensive Programming
- Fail Fast
- Test Continuously
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Kiss, Dry & Yagni
- KISS “Keep It Simple, Stupid!”
- DRY “Don’t Repeat Yourself”
- YAGNI “You Aren’t Gonna Need It”
- Don’t Move Forward Before Fixing Your Bugs
- You Have One Chance
- Design To Secure, Code To Fail & Test To Learn
- You Will Fail Anyway So Fail Gracefully
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Software Testing Types
- Functional Testing
- Agile Testing
- Performance Testing
- Smoke Testing
- Other Types Of Software Testing
- Quality Assurance Best Practices
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Cloud Computing : The Infrastructure Of The Transformation
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PaaS, SaaS, IaaS
- On Premise Vs Cloud: How To Choose
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Major Cloud Providers
- Google Cloud
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Gigital Ocean
- Heroku
- Which Cloud Provider Is Right For You
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Containerization
- How Is Containerization Different From Virtualization?
- Docker
- Docker Ecosystem
- Provisioning Infrasructure
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PaaS, SaaS, IaaS
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Micro Service Architecture
- Presentation
- Advantages
- Criticism
- Micro Services At Netflix As An Example
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Chapter XI - Performance
- Web Performance Problems
- Web Performance Best Practices
- Performance-based DevOps
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