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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 - 11245 views - 04/20/12 by James Betteley in Articles

Ansible: CM, Deployment, and Ad-hoc Task Execution All in One

I just found out about a really interesting open source tool that could support DevOps processes in an even greater capacity than the multi-tool stacks that...

0 replies - 9695 views - 04/18/12 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 9162 views - 04/08/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles

Are DevOps Followers Just "Rabid" Puppet & Chef Users?

It’s been a couple heated weeks on the devops front. In part due, again, to the NoOps debacle (see Cockcroft’s post and Allspaw’s reply) and for the...

0 replies - 6019 views - 04/08/12 by Spike Morelli 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 - 2278 views - 04/06/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

CI – Third Party Tools Live in Your Source Control

I have recently had a couple of interesting discussions with a different people on twitter and “the real world” about the use of third party...

7 replies - 5299 views - 04/05/12 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles

Curing Continuous Delivery Headaches: UrbanCode Tools Level Up

AnthillProThe Continuous Delivery toolmakers over at UrbanCode released two significant upgrades to their toolsets for helping companies follow the DevOps...

5 replies - 7158 views - 04/04/12 by Eric Minick in Articles

Watch DevOps Days Live Right Here!

When DevOps Days in Austin, TX was announced a couple of months ago, the event was sold out the day after it was announced and had a waitlist of over 100.  So...

0 replies - 4803 views - 04/03/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Consuming Chef API from Any Script - Part 1

Its been more than a year since we have adopted Chef for ThoughtWorks. We use Chef not only for configuration management but also for provisioning...

0 replies - 5709 views - 03/31/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles

Poll: How Do We Handle Our Application Environments?

Application performance monitoring and quick bug fixing has been a major topic as of late, so I've created a poll that will give us all some interesting...

0 replies - 5956 views - 03/30/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Concise Description of DevOps?

Recently a member of the LinkedIn DevOps group started a discussion entitled, “Concise description of DevOps?” This member’s post focused on ...

0 replies - 5263 views - 03/24/12 by JP Morgenthal in Articles

4 Reasons Continuous Delivery is Now Possible

I joined ThoughtWorks as a SysAdmin and, I have started working as a consultant for our client projects. Now, as I work with different offshore development...

1 replies - 6729 views - 03/19/12 by Ranjib Dey 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 - 8622 views - 03/18/12 by Carlos Sanchez in Articles

The 3 Basic Tenets of Monitoring

This week, I was seeing a drop in average back-end performance at work, we had an average drop in page load performance from ~250ms to around 500ms. This...

0 replies - 6723 views - 03/13/12 by Geoffrey Papilion in Articles

Debating the "DevOps" Job Title - In the Workplace and the Job Market

You've probably seen the growing number of job postings for "DevOps engineer", "DevOps manager", "DevOps Ninja" (Not really), or...

0 replies - 7837 views - 03/08/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles