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Video: Why Chef for Cloud Automation?

This is just a short and sweet video cooked up by the Opscode 'Ninja Strike Squad' about why one might want to use Chef, an open source data center and cloud...

0 replies - 3419 views - 10/27/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

A simple strategy for dotfiles

Simple as in Simple Object Access Protocol. Dotfiles such as .vimrc and .bashrc are at the core of configuring a Unix system. They are usually places in the...

0 replies - 1035 views - 05/22/13 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner Watch the Video below to learn how to scale out your MySQL Database with ScaleBase. Cost-effectively...

0 replies - 312 views - 02/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

ActuateOne for OEMs

"Actuate BIRT’s (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) proven technology allows software companies to innovate, leapfrog the competition and meet...

0 replies - 350 views - 01/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

Cassandra in the Netflix Architecture

A talk from Denis Sheahan on Netflix's Cassandra Architecture and Open Source efforts. Presented on 28 March 2012 in Cassandra Europe. This presentation...

0 replies - 349 views - 11/20/12 by Brandon Nokes in Uncategorized

Collaborative Filtering at Scale

Sean Owen from the Mahout project (& Pentech VC,) at the 2nd BigData London meetup.

0 replies - 283 views - 11/20/12 by Brandon Nokes in Uncategorized

The Virtuous Cycle of Being On-Call

… or how you can make on-call for service providers a virtuous cycle. In the tech world, for everything that is running as a service or website...

0 replies - 4156 views - 10/03/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles

The Challenge of Small Ops: Part 2 - Monitoring

So your building or have built a web service, you’ve got a lot of challenges a head. You’ve got to scale software and keep customers happy. Not...

0 replies - 3499 views - 07/10/12 by Geoffrey Papilion in Articles

Continuous Integration Tip #3 – Version your Databases as part of your automated build

Having a good Continuous Integration setup is the gift that keeps on giving, but what about your database? For most web applications these days, your...

0 replies - 7915 views - 06/14/12 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles

Redunancy Planning - A Guide to What's Right for You

Since I started my career, redundancy has been featured in almost every deployment discussion. The general best practice is to add an additional element...

0 replies - 6917 views - 05/03/12 by Geoffrey Papilion in Articles

Beer and Pizza with Facebook: Learning Their Secrets...

Last night I was invited to go along to the Facebook offices in London and attend a tech talk on how Facebook do release engineering and automated...

0 replies - 11254 views - 04/20/12 by James Betteley in Articles

Infrastructure Tooling Patterns List

Following is my grouping of tools that I have learned/used as a sysadmin and DevOps dude at ThoughtWorks while maintaining our distributed infrastructure,...

5 replies - 9171 views - 04/08/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles

Why do we Insist on Consensus when Creating the Role of "Ops"?

I’ve seen so many threads over the last few weeks about who should do what, why, and what you should do about it if you don’t conform. I don’t get...

0 replies - 2280 views - 04/06/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

Infrastructure as Code - The Key to DevOps

DevOps is not about the tools That’s true, in the same way that agile is not about the tools either, it’s a set of ideas, concepts, best...

1 replies - 8641 views - 03/18/12 by Carlos Sanchez in Articles

Devoxx Talk on Continuous Delivery Now Live

At Devoxx 2011 I did a talk on Continuous Delivery, in which I describe the process and principles of CD, using our experience at LMAX as an...

0 replies - 4243 views - 02/21/12 by Dave Farley in Articles