Winner of the Shingo Publication AwardAccelerate your organization to win in the marketplace.How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter―that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, ...

Jez Butterworth's hugely acclaimed, prize-winning play - a comic, contemporary vision of life in England's green and pleasant land.On St George's Day, the morning of the local country fair, Johnny 'Rooster' Byron, local waster and Lord of Misrule, is a wanted man. The council officials want to serve him an eviction notice, his son wants to be taken to the fair, a vengeful father wants to give him a serious kicking, and a motley crew of mates wants his ample supply of drugs and alco...

The Four B’s are back for their most unpredictable quest yet! When Entity303 kidnaps their dragon friend Sweetpea, Runt, Biscuit, Bagel, and Blurp must infiltrate a secret lair, confront a dangerous witch, and survive an accidental journey twenty years into the past in this sixth full-color graphic novel in Cube Kid’s bestselling unofficial Minecraft-inspired series.Runt and his crew are back! After leaving the Far Lands, Biscuit, Bagel, Blurp and Runt realize that...

This award-winning and bestselling business handbook for digital transformation is now fully updated and expanded with the latest research and new case studies!“[The DevOps Handbook] remains a must-read for any organization seeking to scale up its IT capability and expand DevOps practices across multiple departments or lines of business.” —Mike Perrow, TechBeaconFor years, The DevOps Handbook has been the definitive guide for taking the successes laid out i...

For the first time ever, fans of Minecraft and the hit series Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior can enjoy their favorite characters’ quests in fun and fully illustrated graphic novels for middle grade readers.Runt is not a village boy like all the others. Growing carrots doesn’t really interest him, and selling them interests him even less. All he wants is to be a warrior! One day, he gathers up all his courage and decides to head...

'This house. It's called "Sea View". It's just I've looked out of every window, and you can't. You can't see the sea.'Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in two hundred years. The beaches are packed. The hotels are heaving. In the sweltering backstreets, far from the choc ices and donkey rides, the Webb Sisters are returning to their mother's run-down guest house, as she lies dying upstairs.Jez Butterworth's play The Hills of California was first performed...

Jump back into the action in this fifth installment of the Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior graphic novel series.Runt and his crew are back for the fifth adventure in the Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior Graphic Novel series. As they prepare for the epic battle against the evil incarnate of Minecraftia: Herobrine, they know they’ll be stronger together, but first they have to get Sweetpea on their side. Unfortunately, the baby ...

Blood, chrome and betrayal.Sergeant Harry Kabutt has seen better days. He's been shot down, blown up, and then tossed to the wayside by the corporations, left to rot in a ratty apartment in gang territory.His own limbs? Shredded, cut away, and left to rot on a mountainside. The replacement mods? Likely to fall apart or leave him to die in sepsis.No longer an operator of the feared APS mecha, Kabutt has hit rock bottom. But he’s on foot, he’s armed, ...

On a moonless night in August when the sea trout are ready to run, a man brings his new girlfriend to the remote family cabin where he has come for the fly-fishing since he was a boy. But she's not the only woman he has brought here – or indeed the last.A bewitching story from the author of global smash hit Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth's play The River was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 2012.

Runt, Blurp, Maggie, and Mobslayer are heading to the End to battle its legendary dragon—but finding the portal may be almost as dangerous as the fight itself. Creepers, rival warriors, missing Eyes of Ender, and the sinister Herobrine stand in their way in the second action-packed, full-color Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior graphic novel.Runt’s pixelated adventures continue in this graphic novel adaptation of the bestselling

DevOps is a fundamental shift in how leading edge companies are starting to manage their software and IT work. Businesses need to move more quickly than ever before, and large software organizations are applying these DevOps principles to develop new software faster than anyone previously thought possible. DevOps started in small organizations and in large organizations that had or created architectures that enabled small teams to independently develop, qualify, and deploy code. The impact...

One of the biggest names in the musical landscape of the 1970s, Steely Dan released a string of albums that pushed the boundaries of what was possible in a recording studio. With albums like The Royal Scam and Aja, the songs of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen drew from their love of jazz, their ability to write memorable pop hooks and their penchant for subversive humour, to produce a catalogue of unparalleled brilliance. With worldwide album sales in excess of 40 million ...