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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 - 9285 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

Video: Config Management for Development Environments

Developers don't want to be sysadmins.  Heck, even sysadmins don't want to be sysadmins.  That's why you need to start using helpful tools like...

0 replies - 2768 views - 11/07/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Infrastructure Debt Harder to "Pay Off" Than Technical Debt

Most of you have probably heard the term "Technical Debt".  It's basically those bugs in a code base that add up after messy quickfixes that don't...

8 replies - 5447 views - 11/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Contextual Validation: Martin Fowler Retread

This is a Retread by Martin Fowler of an earlier version of this post which was first published in 2005.  Definitely worth a read.In my writing endeavors,...

4 replies - 5105 views - 11/04/11 by Martin Fowler in Articles

QA&TEST 2011 Conference

Cirilo Wortel recently attended the QA&TEST Conference which featured a strong list of speakers and a wide variety of talks on test automation, user...

1 replies - 3838 views - 11/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

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

Vagrant & Rubylibs

This post from earlier in the year may help some you correct the problems you're having running puppet modules on Vagrant.  Patrick Dubois' comment was:...

1 replies - 4082 views - 11/02/11 by Kris Buytaert in News

Opportunistic Refactoring by Martin Fowler

From the very beginning of when I started to talk and write about refactoring people have asked me how it should be incorporated into the wider software...

0 replies - 9894 views - 11/01/11 by Martin Fowler in Articles

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

Automated Java Deployments With RPM

A quote from Jesse Robbins of Opscode: "Code that is written and not deployedis money wasted." kicks of this very comprehensive and detailed...

2 replies - 8391 views - 10/30/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Today's Ops - Dispelling Myths and Giving Facts

Inspired by the "Why are you still deploying overnight?" post that got a lot of traction, especially in the DevOps fold, John E. Vincent decided to...

0 replies - 2267 views - 10/29/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles