Drawing on nearly two decades across DevOps, platform engineering, startups, and large organizations, Adam Korga dissects the language, rituals, and incentive structures that shape modern IT work. Not as theory, but as lived reality. Named one of the Best Books of 2025 by Independent Book Review , IT Dictionary is not a parody of tech culture, but a translation manual written by someone who has lived inside it. If you’ve sat through sprint planning that solved nothing, watched “temporary” fixes harden into infrastructure, or learned that incident response is often more about narrative control than resolution, this book is already familiar territory. Inside, the book decodes: Agile and DevOps rituals — sprint planning, retros, velocity, and the ceremonies that promise alignment while quietly generating chaos. - Buzzwords as systems — “building for scale,” “quick wins,” “AI accuracy,” and what they actually mean once incentives, risk, and politics enter the room. - Operational truth — why fixing the bug often matters less than controlling the story around it, and how organizations learn to weaponize failure. - Startup mythology — pivots, hype cycles, and the recurring belief that this time the dysfunction is strategic. - AI as belief system — the New Age of enterprise tech, where probabilistic tools are marketed as certainty, responsibility is outsourced to models, and skepticism is quietly labeled as resistance to progress. “An irreverent insider’s guide to the world of IT.” — Kirkus Reviews Rather than long prose, IT Dictionary uses sharp definitions, tables, and single-sentence observations to expose how IT really functions — how work gets justified, delayed, escalated, or quietly buried. As Independent Book Review notes, the book decodes corporate-speak with “ delightfully eviscerating ” precision and was named one of their Best Books of 2025 for its clarity, insight, and insider accuracy. This book is for: Engineers and DevOps professionals who know that “it works on my machine” is a survival mantra. - Product and platform teams navigating Agile theater, stakeholder pressure, and permanent urgency. - Anyone who has ever been trapped in a corporate meeting, listening to people in plaid shirts, trying to figure out what they are actually talking about. You won’t learn how to code from IT Dictionary. But you will learn how to survive in the industry. Selected as one of the Best Books We Read in 2025 by Independent Book Review "IT Dictionary is a gift to all who have suffered through corporate systems and a guide to making it through your workday without truly going insane." — IndependentBookReview (Starred Review) "Readers who know nothing of tech support might find all this insider snark impenetrable, but even newbies will appreciate the chuckles. A funny, subversively venomous look at the vagaries of IT support." — Kirkus Reviews (accolade GET IT) "Adam Korga's IT DICTIONARY: A Survival Manual for Devs, Dreamers, and Those Still Pretending Their Job Has Structure will raise a laugh with IT professionals who know the grind of keeping a company's network up and running all too well." — IndieReader From Goodreads reviews: "This is a must-have for anyone working in IT—whether you're a software developer, Scrum master, product owner, or manager." — Principal Software Engineer "I can recommend this book to every professional working in IT, tech or not, Data/backend/testers/all engineers. Everyone will find something for themselves. I will be recommending this to all my IT folks!" — Senior Staff Data Engineer IT Dictionary began as a small side project: I wanted to translate the endless jargon of IT specialists into something a normal human could understand. What started as decoding acronyms and buzzwords slowly turned into a full-scale dissection of the industry's culture, rituals, and absurdities. As someone who has spent years inside the world of tech, I felt the need to laugh at it from the inside rather than just complain about it. Writing these entries became a way to poke fun at our daily survival strategies—stand-ups that never stand up, systems that barely hold together, and meetings that drain more energy than any production outage. My hope is that this book does more than make you chuckle. I want it to also spark recognition and reflection: a reminder that while the IT world often looks chaotic and overcomplicated, we're all navigating the same maze together. And if we can laugh at it, maybe we can change it—or at least survive it with our sanity intact. "If you've ever wondered why 'quick fix' became a four-letter word, this is your confession booth." Welcome to IT Dictionary — the survival guide for anyone who's ever shipped code on a Friday, sat through a "quick sync" that lasted two hours, or watched a feature request turn into a platform migration. Adam Korga spent nearly two decades enduring life as a developer, DevOps engineer, consultant, freelanc