Mitch Pronschinske11/01/11
5072 views
0 replies
It was a standing-only room when Jez Humble gave his presentation at
Agile 2011 on how you could implement the basic principles of Lean
Startups in a large enterprise setting using some innovative tactics.
We'll discuss that session and more in this...
Mitch Pronschinske10/31/11
3219 views
0 replies
With two years of deploying Django apps to production, Randall Degges shares some of his experiences and tips this week on his blog. After nearly 2 weeks of trying to keep his Django app's PostgreSQL database from dying, he discovers a tool that is well...
Mitch Pronschinske10/31/11
2887 views
0 replies
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 administration. He does an excellent debriefing of his first month using the open source infrastructure...
Mitch Pronschinske10/30/11
7099 views
0 replies
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 servers quickly forked and set up in the cloud. Right now the tool supports Jenkins on Ubuntu 10.04 on...
Mitch Pronschinske10/30/11
8435 views
2 replies
A quote from Jesse Robbins of Opscode: "Code that is written and not deployedis money wasted." kicks of this very comprehensive and detailed slideshow from Martin Jackson which shows an anti-pattern in the way his company was deploying Java...
Mitch Pronschinske10/29/11
2274 views
0 replies
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 write a pair of blog posts on his own view of the major myths and facts surronding Operations. His...
Gareth Rushgrove10/28/11
2719 views
1 replies
The following is a great batch of slides from Gareth Rushgrove. It comes from his February presentation at FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developerss European Meeting) I had the pleasure of speaking at Fosdem last weekend to a packed Configuration amd...
Mitch Pronschinske10/28/11
4191 views
0 replies
Some DevOps humor has arrived for you on this Friday afternoon. The video here is by Paul Stelligent (Author of our CI and Continuous Delivery Refcardz) via XtraNormal. It's a little dated but hopefully it's new to you! You might have experienced this...
Dror Helper10/28/11
4273 views
1 replies
Technical debt and design debt are
synonymous, neologistic metaphors referring to the eventual consequences
of slapdash software architecture and hasty software development. Code debt refers to technical debt within a codebase. [From Wikipedia] ...
John Esposito10/27/11
4214 views
0 replies
Wired magazine just jumped on the DevOps bandwagon.Okay, so automated configuration management isn't exactly news to DZoners. (Seriously -- we have a whole Microzone devoted to DevOps alone.) But when Wired Enterprise picks up a technology, you know it's...
Mitch Pronschinske10/27/11
3257 views
0 replies
The
cloud reinforces some old concepts of building highly scalable
architectures and introduces some new concepts that entirely change the
way applications are built, developed and deployed. In order to leverage
the full potential of the cloud and...
Mitch Pronschinske10/27/11
3420 views
0 replies
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 configuration tool.
Israel Gat10/27/11
1595 views
1 replies
Readers of both the Cutter Blog and The Agile Executive are
probably familiar with my my view that Agile nowadays is deployed in a
new context. The Agile roll-out is at the very heart of the confluence
of major changes in markets, value chains and...
Mitch Pronschinske10/27/11
2717 views
1 replies
When a developer searches for solutions to an issue, they search for people who have dealt with a similar situation. This search usually results in finding multiple blogs on a problem with competing philosophies that help give a multi-faceted view of the...
Mitch Pronschinske10/26/11
3805 views
3 replies
You may have noticed major performance issues with Firefox Sync over the last few days if you use the feature. The Mozilla Service Operations have written up a very comprehensive and honest postmortem, just as you would expect from an open source,...
Mitch Pronschinske10/26/11
2139 views
0 replies
Sysadmins commonly ask questions like "will documentation or automation of my tasks put me out of a job?" Tom Limoncelli, better known as the 'Everything Sysadmin' says, "Neither could be further from the truth." Rather than negate...
Gareth Rushgrove10/26/11
3280 views
1 replies
After Patrick released Sahara, a nifty extension for the Vagrant
command line tool, I’ve been meaning to put together a similar
extension for interacting with the growing list of base boxes on vagrantbox.es.
After a bit of hacking...
Mitch Pronschinske10/25/11
2323 views
0 replies
There are a couple of useful nuggets of advice for implementing DevOps philosophies in a new post on HP's blog. While many of the points have been mentioned before, it's important to note a few practical tips they gave for operations and developers. For...
Mitch Pronschinske10/25/11
6072 views
0 replies
Today Opscode announced new Chef cookbooks for integration with server instances running Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), Microsoft SQL Server and PowerShell. This addition of...
Mitch Pronschinske10/25/11
5952 views
0 replies
Israel Gat of Cutter Consortium speaks with DZone on his two sessions at Agile 2011, one of which is about his new methodology for taking DevOps and Continuous Delivery to the extreme.
Jim Bird10/25/11
5415 views
1 replies
There is more and more writing on Devops lately, which is good and bad. There still remains a small core of thoughtful people
that are worth listening to and learning from. There’s more and more
marketing from vendors and consultants jumping on the...
Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
5546 views
2 replies
I found an interesting survey by Nolio that is aimed at "Application Release Professionals". The survey is ending in one week and Nolio claims that by participating, these types of professionals will find out whether or not they're being...
Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
3755 views
0 replies
Good news for Puppet users! The recent 2.7.6 update now gives you support for running puppet agents in Windows for some important resource types. Specifically these ones:fileusergroupscheduled_task (new type; not cron)package (MSI)serviceexechostSupport...
Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
4023 views
0 replies
Just one week after the DevOps Days event in Goteborg, Germany there's already reactions coming out of another DevOps conference that happened this past weekend in Chicago, IL. This was the Camp DevOps conference, which featured a strong speaker list...
