Spike Morelli01/15/13
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When I started following along the devops movement often times the phrase “delivering value” would appear in conversation. That made me ponder even harder on a question that had haunted me for quite a while already: who, as an ops person, am I delivering value to?
Kris Buytaert01/15/13
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Kris Buytaert gives us an in-depth rundown of forthcoming DevOps events around the world.
Roger Hughes01/14/13
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If you managed to read my last blog you'll remember that I demonstrated a simple script for creating a new tomcat installation on a server by splitting the tomcat binaries from the conf files, storing the binaries on a FTP server and the conf files in version control, with a script recombining the two parts.
Jason Whaley01/14/13
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"Whoever defined nano as the default crontab editor for Ubuntu deserves a whipping with a rusty chain."
Eric Gregory01/14/13
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Rubytune has put together a reference sheet of DevOps-y command-line tips dealing with process basics, memory, disk/files, network, and more.
Simon Brown01/13/13
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In my role as a software developer, Iʼm often asked to automate existing business processes and transform them into computer systems.
Eric Gregory01/13/13
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At JavaZone, Jevgeni Kabanov talks about building a full clustered environment and a deployment pipeline -- so that commits to the trunk update a live chat server.
Michael Muller01/12/13
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Let's continue our serie of interviews with people who had and continue having major influence on the definition of technical debt and its implementation in software development projects. Philippe KRUCHTEN, software engineering professor at UBC, who directed the development of the RUP (Rational Unified Process), explains his vision of technical debt and how to manage it, in order to take right decisions at the right time.
Eric Gregory01/12/13
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This JavaZone session provides an object lesson in using continuous delivery for build, test, and deployment.
Jez Humble01/11/13
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In his new book, Antifragile, Nassim Taleb discusses the behaviour of complex systems and distinguishes three kinds: those that are fragile, those that are robust or resilient, and those that are antifragile.
Jason Whaley01/11/13
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I was running in to a problem with a Java project that occured only in IntelliJ Idea, but not on the command line, when running specific test classes in Maven. The exception stack trace had the following in it...
Eric Gregory01/11/13
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This fast-paced video session from JavaZone functions as an introduction to networking fundamentals for programmers.
Paul Hammant01/10/13
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A colleague, Logan McGrath, has a blog series that scotch-tapes Perforce, Sinatra and AngularJS into a functional app. Another Colleague, Addison Lee, wrote a quick client polling example for it in Java.
Ralf Quebbemann01/10/13
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Seeing that my Linux box is running low on free space I decided to remove all unused Linux kernel images on my Ubuntu 10.04 system.
Jakub Holý01/10/13
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Parsing script or function options and non-option arguments is easy in Bash with getopts but there are some catches, such as the need to reset OPTIND. We will se how to do it using getopts, shift, and case.
Willie Wheeler01/10/13
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In real-time operational contexts, it’s important to monitor system metrics for major swings in value. Such swings, whether upward (“pops”) or downward (“drops”), often indicate a problem either on the horizon or else in progress.
Mark Needham01/09/13
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On the recommendation of J.B. Rainsberger I’ve been reading ‘Reality is Broken‘ – a book which talks about how we can apply some of the things games designers have learned about getting people engaged to real life.
Eric Gregory01/09/13
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Following up on his tutorial on getting started with Chef Solo, DevOpsCast's Mat Schaffer helps you install your Chef Server.
Achala Chathura...01/09/13
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The traditional app delivery process has many drawbacks: outdated infrastructure, lack of tools, etc. The app delivery process is severely constrained by those drawbacks and ultimately it can negatively impact business.
Eric Minick01/08/13
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Jacob Orshalick has a nice article up at TechWell asking “How lean is your development platform?”
Eric Gregory01/08/13
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In the first episode of his DevOpsCast, Mat Schaffer helps you get up and running with Chef Solo.
Eric Gregory01/08/13
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Ranjib Dey explains continuous web app delivery: "This presentation will describe methodologies and patterns for practicing continuous delivery for a typical web application with multiple integration points."
