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Hiring and embedding new team members at Hyves

The leaders at Hyves stumbled into DevOps by accident five years ago, when nobody (including them) was aware that it was actually a cultural movement....

1 replies - 3946 views - 11/22/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

The Personal Side of Developing in the Cloud

As access to powerful cloud computing solutions increases,  you may find yourself asking if moving your project to a cloud-based development environment is a...

0 replies - 2562 views - 11/21/11 by David Pell in Articles

A Career in Web Operations

Theo Schlossnagle (OmniTI) takes us on a whirlwind tour through the world of web operations and try to get a handle on both why it is a challenging...

0 replies - 2642 views - 11/18/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Sometimes it *IS* about the Tools—Solving Cultural Issues with Software

While it is generally true that you can't solve a soft skill issue with technology, there are cases where tooling can help promote greater cultural harmony...

0 replies - 3879 views - 11/14/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Is Implementing Continuous Delivery the Key to Success?

“Until your pretty code is in production, making money, or doing whatever it does, you've just wasted your time” - Chris Read whilst at London CI.In my...

1 replies - 4510 views - 11/14/11 by Paul Stack in Articles

7 Reasons why Continuous Delivery needs to be a BUSINESS initiative

One of the key practices of agile and lean teams is the idea of Continuous Delivery.  If not continuous, then at least very frequent! ThoughtWorks has an...

2 replies - 5558 views - 11/14/11 by Kelly Waters in Articles

DevOps Adoption and Case Studies - Free PDF

A new issue of Cutter IT's Journal just arrived, and this one's on DevOps… and it's free.  To get "Devops: A Software Revolution in the Making?,"...

0 replies - 6060 views - 11/10/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Exporting MAVEN_OPTS not working for Freestyle Jenkins Projects

I’m running Jenkins version 1.428 and I have a “Freestyle” project. The aim of this project is to upload a large tar.gz file to an artifactory...

1 replies - 4023 views - 11/10/11 by James Betteley in Articles

The rise of the in-house team?

I was just thinking about the Design it Build it conference that I spoke at. Specifically the people who spoke on the developer track. Between myself, ...

1 replies - 4942 views - 11/10/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in Articles

How Mature Is Your Continuous Integration?

As I’m sure I’ve ranted about mentioned in the past, Continuous Integration is far more than just a collection of tools and scripts. It’s “a...

1 replies - 9286 views - 11/09/11 by James Betteley in Articles

Coping with Big CI

I recently went to another C.I. meetup to listen to Tom Duckering, a DevOps consultant at Thoughtworks, deliver a talk about managing a scaled-up...

1 replies - 4971 views - 11/08/11 by James Betteley in Articles

Exponential Growth Reported for Hadoop and Puppet Job Needs - Java is Also Surging

Some stats reported by Dice.com (mainly IT jobs) and Indeed.com show that the April to June timespan from this year had 3x as many postings about Puppet skills...

0 replies - 8058 views - 11/02/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Delving into Technical Debt

Free resources on technical debt are now available at cutter consortium:Many of the findings and the recommendations we make in Cutter technical debt...

0 replies - 3832 views - 11/01/11 by Israel Gat in News

Unseating Bad Habits With 1 Month of Chef

What a difference a month makes with one new tool.  For Bryan Berry, the author of DevOpsAnywhere, it fundamentally changed the way he views system...

0 replies - 2872 views - 10/31/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Jenkins Bootstrapper for the EC2 Cloud

Is setting up Jenkins on a fresh server a tedious process for you?  Wes Winham thinks so.  Thats why he's built a bootstrapping tool that gets Jenkins...

0 replies - 7082 views - 10/30/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News