Books by Jez Humble

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Continuous Delivery

by Jez Humble, David Farley
333 pages - - 11.9 MB New!

“Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation 1st Edition” is a great book on software development. Jez Humble and David Farley are the authors of this book. The book is all about perfect software development. It contains good information on many aspects like testing, development, and deployment. It sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. The book introduces state-of-the-art techniques, including automated infrastructure management and data migration, and the use of virtualization. Both of these authors covers the complex development topics automating all facets of building, integrating, testing, and deploying software, implementing deployment pipelines at team and organizational levels, improving collaboration between developers, testers, and operations, developing features incrementally on large and distributed teams, implementing an effective configuration management strategy, automating acceptance testing, from analysis to implementation and testing capacity and other non-functional requirements. This book also helps software developers in understanding the risk management and components and dependencies. In short, it is a great book on software development and we highly recommend it to all developers.

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The DevOps Handbook

by Gene Kim, Ajit, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, John Allspaw
333 pages - - 4 MB New!

“The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations” is an amazing book that gives some DevOps practices to increase profitability in business management. The authors of this book are Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Jez Humble, and John Allspaw. Gene Kim is multiple award-winning entrepreneurs. His passion is about IT operations, security, and compliance. Jez Humble is an award-winning author and researcher on software who has spent his career tinkering with code. Patrick Debois is an independent IT-consultant who is bridging the gap between projects and operations by using Agile techniques. John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 30 years. He writes six IBM Redbooks for IBM enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems. The last one John Allspaw. He has worked in systems operations for over fourteen years in biotech, government and online media. John also built the back infrastructures at Salon.com, Friendster, Flicker, and InfoWorld.com. “The DevOps Handbook” provides best practices to help organizations teams to achieve common goals. Furthermore, The authors explain how high-performing companies take advantages through these principles and win the marketplace. All in all, The DevOps Handbook is very helpful for all business management.