Goal
The path to "サイトリライアビリティワークブック"
Here is the reading path leading up to this book, derived from its dependencies and ordered from the fundamentals.
The path so far (3 books)
Why read this first: 'The Phoenix Project' lets you experience the chaos of IT operations through a novel, internalizing why DevOps is needed. Once you feel the problem, the royal road is to learn the solutions as systematic practices in 'The DevOps Handbook' by the same author team (Gene Kim et al).
Why read this first: Where 'The DevOps Handbook' preaches collaboration between development and operations, Google's 'Site Reliability Engineering' shows the concrete form of solving the operations side 'with software engineering'. With error budgets and SLOs to engineer reliability, it is a natural evolution of DevOps.
Why read this first: Where 'Site Reliability Engineering' articulates principles distilled from Google's practice, its sequel 'The Site Reliability Workbook' shows 'how to implement it at your own company' with concrete procedures and case studies. Theory first, then the implementation volume—a required progression.