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Brightest Minds In DevOps To Speak At #ChefConf 2014
By Lucas Welch
Change Agents from GE Capital, InterContinental Hotels Group, Target, and Yahoo Join DevOps Luminaries Rachel Chalmers, Jez Humble, Adam Jacob, and Gene Kim to Address the Chef Community Conference to Feature More Than 55 Presentations on DevOps Best Practices, Continuous Delivery, and Chef Skills BMC Software, Citrix, Google, IBM, Rackspace, and VMware Among Leading Technology […]
Read moreEnterprise IT & DevOps: You’re Not a Beautiful and Unique Snowflake
By Michael Ducy
This post was originally published on Goat Can. “You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying Enterprise IT Org as everyone else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re all singing, all dancing crap of IT.
Read moreNew Video: DevOp w/Chef’s Nathen Harvey
By Lucas Welch
Our own Nathen Harvey recently created a rockin’ and rappin’ (litterally) video presentation on what DevOps is – and is not – called “DevOps with Me!”. We could write a whole bunch of words about how unique and creative Nathen’s comparisons are here, but we’ll let you be the judge.
Read moreAwesome Chefs – CustomInk Unites Dev & Ops, Codes Their Business
By Lucas Welch
Our close friends at CustomInk make it easy for anyone to create customized T-shirts, sweatshirts, and much more online. (Sidenote: We work with them to make all our Opscode and Chef T-Shirts). CustomInk employs proprietary, primarily Ruby-based software applications running on both virtualized and cloud servers to manage everything from its website to its printers.
Read moreDevOps + Continuous Delivery @ FlowCon on 11/1
By Lucas Welch
Question: What are Gene Kim (author of “The Phoenix Project”), Jez Humble (DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pioneer), Catherine Courage (VP of Customer Experience at Citrix), John Esser (Director Engineering Productivity and Agile Development at Ancestry.com), and Adrian Cockcroft (Director of Architecture for Cloud Systems @ Netflix) all doing next Friday, 11/1?
Read morePodcast: An Application-Centric Approach to DevOps using Cloudify + Chef on Cloudstack
By Lucas Welch
Next Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 10 am Pacific Time, we’ve joined with our friends at PaddyPower, Cloudify, and CloudStack to host a sweet podcast addressing common obstacles in the journey to DevOps.
Read moreVelocity Greatest Hits Part II – Adam Jacob’s “Choose Your Own Adventure”
By Lucas Welch
In part II of our “Velocity Greatest Hits” blog series leading up to next week’s Velocity NYC, we dive into the mind of Adam Jacob and his famed “Choose Your Own Adventure” talk. Driven by audience interaction and questions, Adam’s “Choose Your Won Adventure” can obviously take a number of different directions.
Read moreAwesome Chefs – Encyclopedia Life Uses Chef for Global DevOps
By Lucas Welch
Our friends at the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) began their mission with this idea – humans’ knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth (of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria) is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere.
Read morePrezi Talks DevOps @GigaOM Structure Europe
By Lucas Welch
Many of you out there in the Chef Community are likely using Prezi’s dynamite zooming presentation software. Prezi, in turn, is using Enterprise Chef to manage a big gang of AWS resources that serve its nearly 20M users. Cool, yes, but nothing we haven’t said before.
Read moreAwesome Chefs – Wanelo Delivers Huge Ruby on Rails App w/Enterprise Chef
By Lucas Welch
Shopping online is nothing new. But our friends at Wanelo (pronounced “wah-NEE-lo” from want, need, love) have whipped up something awesome with an online platform uniting shoppers, products, and stores on a 100% member-driven community. In other words, Wanelo helps millions of people share and find dynamite products at cool stores for great prices.
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