Books (and concepts worth “Googling”)
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Time Management for System Administrators, Thomas Limoncelli
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The Practice of System and Network Administration, Thomas Limoncelli
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Web Operations, John Allspaw and Jesse Robbins
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The Art of Capacity Planning, John Allspaw
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Blueprints for High Availability, Evan Marcus and Hal Stern
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Resilience Engineering, Erik Hollnagel
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Human Error, James Reason
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To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski
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To Forgive Design, Henry Petroski
University Programs that teach Operations
A list of System Administration or Ops related classes or degree granting programs. It would be well worth your time to compare their syllabi, course outcomes, exercises etc.
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http://www.hioa.no/Studier/TKD/Master/Network-and-System-Administration/
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http://www.hioa.no/Studier/Summer/Network-and-system-administration
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http://www.rit.edu/programs/applied-networking-and-system-administration-bs
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http://www.his.se/english/education/island/net–og-kerfisstjornun/
LOPSA has an educator’s list
Aleksey’s report on university programs