Reliability does not fail only because of bad architecture, broken pipelines, weak monitoring, or missing automation. Sometimes reliability fails because humans are tired, biased, afraid, overloaded, overconfident, badly incentivised, or simply trying to survive another incident call.In Essential SRE: It's Not the Tools, It's Us, Marcel Koert takes an opinionated, practical, and deeply human look at Site Reliability Engineering. This is not another...

Site reliability engineering is entering a new era—one in which autonomous systems act faster than people can observe, approve, or repair them.**Traditional SRE was built around human response: alerts, on-call rotations, runbooks, postmortems, and engineers intervening when production failed. But as AI agents begin to detect incidents, change infrastructure, analyze root causes, and resolve operational problems on their own, reliability can no longer depend on faster reaction. It m...

Ever been personally attacked by an alert at 03:00?The kind that says "unusual," "degraded," or (my favourite) "flapping," as if your production system is a distressed bird and not a dependency tower held together by good intentions and tribal knowledge from 2019?Then this book is for you.Essential SRE: Way of Working is a practical, opinionated field guide to Site Reliability Engineering—written from the messy middle of real operations, where incidents happen, road...

Three worlds share an ancestor. They do not share a definition of proof.Sere records truth in fired ceramic and marks every claim by how it is known. Meral stores testimony as warmth in walls, where silence carries legal weight. Oruve controls the ships and patents connecting them.When a repeating rhythm appears in the gaps between routine engine transmissions, scattered technicians, archivists, kiln workers, clerks, and diplomats begin to notice the same impossible fact: t...

Kill It with Fire chronicles the challenges of dealing with aging computer systems, along with sound modernization strategies.How to survive a legacy apocalypse“Kill it with fire,” the typical first reaction to a legacy system falling into obsolescence, is a knee-jerk approach that often burns through tons of money and time only to result in a less efficient solution. This book offers a far more forgiving modernization framework, l...

"The overall objective of this book is to show that data management is an exciting and valuable capability that is worth time and effort. More specifically it aims to achieve the following goals: 1.To give a "gentle" introduction to the field of DM by explaining and illustrating its core concepts, based on a mix of theory, practical frameworks such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, and DMBOK, as well as results from real-world assignments. 2.To offer guidance on how to build an effective DM capability ...

The important and rapidly emerging new field known as 'cyber threat intelligence' explores the paradigm that defenders of computer networks gain a better understanding of their adversaries by understanding what assets they have available for an attack. In this book, a team of experts examines a new type of cyber threat intelligence from the heart of the malicious hacking underworld - the dark web. These highly secure sites have allowed anonymous communities of malicious hackers to exchange...

175+ Cybersecurity Misconceptions and the Myth-Busting Skills You Need to Correct ThemElected into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame!Cybersecurity is fraught with hidden and unsuspected dangers and difficulties. Despite our best intentions, there are common and avoidable mistakes that arise from folk wisdom, faulty assumptions about the world, and our own human biases. Cybersecurity implementations, investigations, and research all suffer as a result. Ma...

Open Agile Architecture, a standard of The Open Group, offers an approach to architect at scale with agility. It provides guidance and best practices for Enterprise Architects seeking to transition into Agile and Digital contexts. Empowering an Enterprise to Succeed with its Digital-Agile TransformationAgile teams drive the enterprise's Digital Transformation by inventing new business models, delivering superior customer experiences, developing digital products, and architecting highly-aut...

We live in a dynamic economic and commerical world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and technologies have brought with them new kinds of firms and forms of organization. We are discovering news ways of structuring work, of bringing buyers and sellers together, and of creating and using market information. Although our fast-moving economy often seems to be outside of our influence or control, human beings create the things th...

Meeting the Challenges of Data Quality Management outlines the foundational concepts of data quality management and its challenges. The book enables data management professionals to help their organizations get more value from data by addressing the five challenges of data quality management: the meaning challenge (recognizing how data represents reality), the process/quality challenge (creating high-quality data by design), the people challenge (building data literacy), the technical chal...

Your agents ship while you sleep. Who owns the decisions they make?Fourteen changes deployed overnight. Twelve from AI agents. All approved — by the structure instead of a person. The fix was correct. The process was followed. And at the morning sync, nobody could say who owned the decision.This is the Agentile condition — and most organisations are already in it.AI agents write code, merge pull requests, deploy to production, and r...