The Healthy Programmer book review
Sometimes I’m late for some of the most important events in my life. Hopefully, health is not the issue that I’ve missed. Self-awareness and consciousness have always been a nic...
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“Release it” book review
There’s a relatively short list of books I would like to keep on my desk. Most often those books are references and a composition of famous quotes. After I’ve read this chap I’d...
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The phoenix project book review
That was the first non-technical book I’ve read for the last few years. At first I was really struggling to go through the first one hundred pages as I was constantly bored due ...
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Ansible for DevOps book review
I was given this book, which is an uncommon event for me as I usually buy all books by myself. Moreover, I was given a paper version of the book.
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Puppet Essentials book review
The book provides only a shallow knowledge of Puppet, doesn’t cover some of the most important modules you’ll need in the real world as well as it doesn’t provide practical exam...
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One of my favorite quotes drawn as a comic
― Chris Hadfield{.authorOrTitle}, the first Canadian office on board of ISS
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Mesos in Action book review
I can recommend this book only to those who’s looking for a very shallow knowledge of Mesos. It covers only the basics, no details, no iternal APIs, a lot of references to the M...
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SRE book review
I don’t normally buy paper books, which means that in the course of the last few years I’ve bought only one paper book even though I’ve read hundreds of books during that period...
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How Linux Works book review
This book doesn’t claim to cover all Linux features, but definitely it covers some of the most important ones.
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Bash for beginner book review
As my previous attempts to fully learn Bash had been short-living and sporadic I’ve decided that this time I’m going to fully master it in order to prevent myself from writing o...
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