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DEVOPS FOR THE DESPERATE
DevOps for the Desperate (Early Access) © 2022 by Bradley Smith
DevOps for the Desperate (Early Access) © 2022 by Bradley Smith
D E V O P S F O R
T H E D E S P E R A T E
A Hands-on
Survival Guide
Bradley Smith
San Francisco
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DevOps for the Desperate (Early Access) © 2022 by Bradley Smith
This book is for all the engineers
slogging through on call.
DevOps for the Desperate (Early Access) © 2022 by Bradley Smith
DevOps for the Desperate (Early Access) © 2022 by Bradley Smith
About the Author
Bradley Smith is a director of infrastructure and resides in Denver, Colorado.
He has been an engineer for more than 20 years at many startups and
businesses, large and small. He has built, trained, and been a member of
numerous DevOps, SRE, and software-engineering teams. A Boston native,
Bradley graduated from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
About the Technical Reviewer
Quentin Hartman has been living and breathing DevOps since before it had
a name. He loves the tech, but more than that, he loves seeing how DevOps
practices make software and the lives of people who build it better. Over the
course of his nearly 25-year career in technology, Quentin has worked in
public education, higher education, nonprofits, and private businesses with
anywhere from 3 to 300,000 employees. He has managed telecom systems,
datacenters, and public and private clouds. He has acted as a sysadmin, a
DBA, a network engineer, an incident responder, and a leader. This broad
experience has given him an especially strong foundation in DevOps, which
has been his primary focus since 2012. Wherever Quentin is, he puts people
before tech and is only really happy when he’s working on a social-impact
mission using open-source tools. Quentin lives near Denver, Colorado, with
his family. He can often be found building things, cooking, and wandering
in the woods. He can be reached as qhartman on many platforms, includ-
ing Mastodon.social, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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