A decision has been made: I am going to write a book!
I ‘ve been playing with that idea for some time. After keeping a diary for nearly 10 years and writing a blog for one year, I thought it was about time to write a book.
Writing a book? About what?
It took a while to find a topic, but I finally made the decision: The Sensu Monitoring Framework.
But why a book?
Since I use Sensu a lot at work, I searched for more information beyond the Sensu project Wiki on GitHub and what I found via Google. I wanted a concise book, but couldn’t find one.
Learning by Teaching
There is another reason I want to write about Sensu: I ‘m relatively new to it and far from an expert.
To teach something, you need to be proficient with it. By writing the book I will gain deeper expertise and, hopefully, be able to contribute to the Sensu project—documentation or code.
Bird by Bird
Writing a book seems like a huge task. Daunting!
I like a challenge and experimenting with ideas. Writing this book will be proof to myself that a book isn’t an insurmountable venture.
I ‘ll tackle it “Bird by Bird”—piece by piece, little by little. In fact, I already started writing the book without realizing it by publishing the blog post “Provisioning Sensu with Puppet”.
Everything that will appear in the book will first be published on my blog.
Agile Writing
I love the idea of self-publishing and of writing software in an agile way. Leanpub is the perfect partner to bring these together.
A few reasons I chose their service:
- Self-publishing freedom.
- The ability to release small chunks and get early feedback.
- They create your book in major formats (mobi for Kindle, epub for iPad and other readers).
- All rights remain with you.
- You can publish elsewhere and even sell a print version of your Leanpub-compiled book.
- The service is free; they only charge on a sale.
- Transparent pricing.
- Reasonable royalty fees.
- You can set the price or leave it to readers.
- It ‘s quick and easy to set up.
- You can write the whole book in Markdown—no need for complicated text processors.
So, here it is: the official web presence of “The Book of Sensu”.
For now, you can do the following there:
- Leave your email address or subscribe to the RSS feed to be notified about updates.
- Indicate how much you would like to spend on this book.
- Leave a comment and tell me what you think.
Please go there and check it out. I would be very happy and grateful if you consider being a reader of my book someday.
Let me know what you think about me writing the book in the comments below or on the official page of the book.
Thanks a lot!
Done for today.