Reading List
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This is a list of additional material should you wish to dive deeper on particular topics.

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| Book                       | Author (last name) | Description                                                 |
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| Network Warrior            | Donahue            | Picks up where CCNA leaves off. Lots of real-world          |
|                            |                    | networking advice.                                          |
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| DNS & BIND                 | Liu & Albitz       | One of the best books available on DNS                      |
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| The Practice of System     | Limoncelli         | Focused more on the traditional IT role, but plenty         |
| and Network Administration |                    | for modern sysadmins to learn                               |
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| The Practice of Cloud      | Limoncelli         | Focused on modern system administration and                 |
| System Administration      |                    | devops-y/cloud-y topics                                     |
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| Time Management for System | Limoncelli         | Learn how to better manage your time. A classic book.       |
| Administrators             |                    |                                                             |
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| Web Operations             | Allspaw            | Full of lots of practical advice on web operations.         |
|                            |                    | Limoncelli's Cloud System Administration is kind of like    |
|                            |                    | an updated and more in-depth version of this.               |
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| Release It!                | Nygard             | Focused more on the developer side of of application        |
|                            |                    | design/deployment, but sysadmins will learn a lot from this |
|                            |                    | book.                                                       |
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| UNIX and Linux System      | Nemeth, et el      | A classic book on UNIX/Linux system administration.         |
| Administration Handbook    |                    | Does not cover modern tooling/practices, but rather more    |
|                            |                    | in-depth teaching of Linux/UNIX operating systems           |
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| The Phoenix Project        | Kim                | A parable about DevOps, that does a great job explaining    |
|                            |                    | what DevOps is all about.                                   |
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| Continuous Delivery        | Humble & Farley    | Discusses continuous delivery practices, anti-patterns,     |
|                            |                    | and solutions.                                              |
|                            |                    | One of the few books that brings together many related      |
|                            |                    | topics (CM, VCS, etc) into a cohesive idea of continuous    |
|                            |                    | delivery.                                                   |
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