Appendix B: Foundational Knowledge Base

This appendix provides a curated list of the main references, books, and resources used as inspiration throughout this book. These materials are recommended for those who wish to explore the concepts of platform engineering, SRE, and cloud-native architecture in more depth.

Core Readings

• SRE and Reliability

  • Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems. Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, and Niall Murphy. O’Reilly Media, 2016. sre.google/sre-book/
  • The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE. Betsy Beyer, Niall Murphy, David K. Rensin, Kent Kawahara, and Stephen Thorne. O’Reilly Media, 2018.
  • Building Secure and Reliable Systems. Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Ana Oprea, Piotr Lewandowski, and Adam Stubblefield. O’Reilly Media, 2020.

• DevOps and Transformation

  • The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford. IT Revolution Press, 2013.
  • The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations. Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Jez Humble. IT Revolution Press, 2016.
  • Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation. Jez Humble and David Farley. Addison-Wesley, 2010.
  • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim. IT Revolution Press, 2018.

• Platform Engineering and Architecture

  • Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product and People Leaders. Camille Fournier and Ian Nowland. O’Reilly Media, 2023.
  • Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow. Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. IT Revolution Press, 2019.
  • Platform Engineering on Kubernetes: Building a Self-Service Platform with Cloud Native Technologies. Mauricio Salatino. Manning Publications, 2023.
  • Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software. Eric Evans. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003.

Technical Resources and Whitepapers

• Cloud Governance and Landing Zones

  • Organizing Your AWS Environment Using Multiple Accounts. Amazon Web Services, 2023.
  • AWS Landing Zone Design. Amazon Web Services, 2023.
  • Landing zone design in Google Cloud. Google Cloud, 2023.
  • AWS Well-Architected Framework: SaaS Lens. Amazon Web Services, 2023.

• Security and Standards

  • Zero Trust Architecture (SP 800-207). Scott Rose, Oliver Borchert, Stu Mitchell, and Sean Connelly. NIST, 2020.