Resources: Module 01 — Introduction to DevOps and Platform Engineering¶

Verified resources specifically relevant to this module's culture and foundational concepts.

Books¶

Title	Author(s)	Notes
The Phoenix Project	Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford	The DevOps origin story in novel form; read this before all other DevOps books
Accelerate	Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim	The DORA research book; empirical evidence for which practices drive performance
The DevOps Handbook	Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis	Practitioner implementation guide for the Three Ways
Team Topologies	Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais	Organizational design for software teams; essential for Platform Engineering

Resource	URL	Notes
Google SRE Book (Chapter 1–3)	https://sre.google/sre-book/introduction/	Free online; Chapter 2 covers the SRE model origin
DORA State of DevOps Report	https://dora.dev/research/	Annual research report; download free PDFs
DORA Quick Check	https://dora.dev/quickcheck/	Self-assessment tool for your team's DORA metrics
"10+ Deploys Per Day" — Allspaw & Hammond	https://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/10-deploys-per-day-dev-and-ops-cooperation-at-flickr	Original 2009 Velocity slides; foundational

Title	Notes
"10+ Deploys Per Day" (2009 Velocity talk)	Search YouTube for "Allspaw Hammond Velocity 2009"; the talk that started it all
Gene Kim's DevOps talks	Search YouTube for "Gene Kim Three Ways" or "Gene Kim Phoenix Project"; multiple recordings available
Nicole Forsgren on DORA metrics	Search YouTube for "Nicole Forsgren DORA Accelerate"; author explaining the research

Title / Source	URL	Notes
What is Platform Engineering? (platformengineering.org)	https://platformengineering.org/blog/what-is-platform-engineering	Good introduction to the Platform Engineering discipline
"The SRE model of operations" (Google Cloud Blog)	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/how-sre-relates-to-devops	Official Google explanation of SRE vs DevOps