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Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman is the co-founder of Gruntwork, a company that offers products and services for setting up world-class DevOps Foundations. He's also the author of three books published by O'Reilly Media: Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery, Terraform: Up & Running, and Hello, Startup. Previously, he spent more than a decade building infrastructure and products that served hundreds of millions of users while working as a software engineer at LinkedIn, TripAdvisor, Cisco Systems, and Thomson Financial.

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Latest book

Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery

https://www.fundamentals-of-devops.com/

While most books about DevOps focus only on high-level theory and culture, this practical, hands-on guide focuses on the actual tools, practices, and technologies that constitute software delivery. You'll work through dozens of examples that take you, step-by-step, through how to run real systems and real code, starting with the basics—running a single server—and working all the way up to Kubernetes clusters, automated deployment pipelines, distributed data systems, and more.

Latest blog post

Review: North Woods by Daniel Mason

Oct 24, 2025 Review: Fiction, 2 Stars, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

DNF. This is the story of the various people that inhabit a single house in New England across several centuries. I found it a frustrating read. At times, the pr...

Latest talk

GOTO Book Club: Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery

A GOTO Book Club interview with Kief Morris (author of Infrastructure as Code) about my latest book, Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery. We discuss the definition of DevOps, tools for managing infrastructure and apps, why you can't not have a framework, and the future of infrastructure code.

Formats: Video, Gotopia

Date: 23 Oct 2025

Latest work

Gruntwork

https://www.gruntwork.io

I'm the co-founder of Gruntwork, a company that that offers products & services for setting up world-class DevOps Foundations. Our mission is to make it 10x easier to understand, develop, and deploy software. We take care of all the "undifferentiated heavy lifting"—the grunt work—so that your team can focus on the products and services unique to your company.