Review of 'DevOps with Kubernetes: Accelerating software delivery with container orchestrators' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
The authors seem to know their material, and it's presented in a good order. Unfortunately, none of them are fluent in written English, and it shows. It's not too bad when they're giving an overview of the history of software development to show how we got to where we are now. It's worse when they're deep in the technical stuff: it's hard enough to follow the material without having to wrestle with the language.
Here's the paragraph that made me give up. It's in a section describing how, when it's short of either CPU or memory, Kubernetes kills BestEffort pods (sets of containers) first, then Burstable ones, then Guaranteed ones:
Even though, change to configure resource limit only, but if container A has CPU limit only, then container B has memory limit only, then result will also be Burstable again because Kubernetes knows only either limit
This book desperately needs …
The authors seem to know their material, and it's presented in a good order. Unfortunately, none of them are fluent in written English, and it shows. It's not too bad when they're giving an overview of the history of software development to show how we got to where we are now. It's worse when they're deep in the technical stuff: it's hard enough to follow the material without having to wrestle with the language.
Here's the paragraph that made me give up. It's in a section describing how, when it's short of either CPU or memory, Kubernetes kills BestEffort pods (sets of containers) first, then Burstable ones, then Guaranteed ones:
Even though, change to configure resource limit only, but if container A has CPU limit only, then container B has memory limit only, then result will also be Burstable again because Kubernetes knows only either limit
This book desperately needs the help of someone fluent in written English, and I think less of Packt for not working with the authors on this. If this is fixed in the next edition, I'll be happy to give a higher rating.