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Who's Afraid of Continuous Deployment?

Continuous deployment sounds terrifying. It means that with each commit you make to your version control, your code is pulled down, all tests are run,...

4 replies - 7546 views - 12/16/11 by Cody Powell in Articles

Super Helpful Visualizations for Infrastructure as Code (DevOps)

Today DevOps-coiner Patrick Dubois tweeted: "wow - @guttertec visualized my ideas so much better".  The link in that tweet was to a slideshare stack...

1 replies - 5963 views - 12/15/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Devops from a Sysadmin Perspective

This year LISA (Large Installation System Administration) 2011 Conference has a theme on "devops". The LISA crowd has been practicing automation...

0 replies - 4452 views - 12/13/11 by Patrick Debois in Articles

Deploy ALL the Things - Deployment Myths Part 2

This is part 2 in a post on deployment strategies. The previous post is located here This post was authored by John E. Vincent (aka. lusis).  Creator of...

0 replies - 7675 views - 12/06/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Application Performance Testing: From Conception to Gravestone

Performance testing of software systems is discussed frequently as an episodic activity that is accomplished once per production release as the final step in...

0 replies - 3533 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

Why Load Testing From The Cloud Doesn't Work

Web sites and web applications have transformed business. They are crucial to your company’s bottom line, whether you are involved in e-commerce, have a...

0 replies - 3497 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

Rollbacks and Other Deployment Myths

I came across an interesting post today via HN. I’m surprised (only moderately) that I missed it the first time around since this is right up my...

1 replies - 7552 views - 12/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DevOps & IBM

The practices and technologies of DevOps have begun to spread into what I'd call "the mainstream," which is fantastic: DevOps has a lot to offer ...

0 replies - 4194 views - 12/03/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

How DataSift is Datamining 120K Tweets Per Second

Attention architectural gurus!  Get ready to learn about how one company puts together its amazing datamining architecture, and hopefully you'll also walk...

1 replies - 7769 views - 11/30/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Puppet Labs Gets $8.5M to Achieve DevOps Dominance

Today Puppet Labs revealed that it has received $8.5 million from Google Ventures, VMware, and Cisco—three companies that are dominating various facets of...

0 replies - 5069 views - 11/29/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Why we chose Chef over Puppet at CustomInk

Not unlike most technology choices, the choice of which configuration management tool to use for managing your infrastructure as code is sure to spark...

1 replies - 6913 views - 11/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Small IT Environments Should Practice Configuration Management Too

Sure, configuration management systems are a must in large IT environments, but what about small environments?  Do we really need them?Yes, according to the...

0 replies - 3609 views - 11/20/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Beyond the Node: Arkestration with Noah

No longer can we treat our infrastucture as a mass of isolated systems. Complex dependencies exist between components and we find node-centric tools...

0 replies - 5147 views - 11/18/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Using Puppet to Deploy with a Push

Prior to Fiesta my ops background was pretty minimal. Managing ops for Fiesta quickly taught me the value of a configuration management system like...

0 replies - 5825 views - 11/16/11 by Mike Dirolf in Articles

Is a Startup Crazy if They Don't Use Cloud IaaS?

Today’s tech entrepreneurs would be out of their minds to build out their own data centers rather than renting capacity from Amazon or another low-cost...

2 replies - 3816 views - 11/12/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles