As a novel, this book is horrible. But it's probably the best management book I've read. Although I've been working with devops for years, this book is an invigorating boost and a reminder of why devops is so important and why I should continue to always advocate it for my clients.

At times the management lingo in the book just makes me giggle, especially how business terms are used unironically by the characters in everyday dialog. But that doesn't matter - I couldn't put this book down. Particularly the first third, where the old way of working and the all-too-familiar downward spiral is so precisely described, is fantastic. It's like a thriller set in my professional world.

This book was also a much-needed reminder for me, as a developer, not to forget the importance of IT ops. Not to fall into the thought trap of putting development at the top of the value chain and IT ops at the bottom. New features are worth nothing if the existing features don't work.