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 - 3818 views - 11/12/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Constant Contact's use of Puppet has evolved from being an operations
tool for system configuration management to playing a central role in
our software...
0 replies - 5905 views - 11/12/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
There are a lot of considerations for deploying MySQL in the Cloud.
Some concepts and details won't be obvious to DBAs used to deploying on
traditional...
3 replies - 7253 views - 11/10/11 by Sean Hull in Articles
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 - 5460 views - 11/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Earlier this week I went about setting up notifications in VMware
vCloud Director. Notifications (or callouts as some people call them) is
a way for vCD...
1 replies - 7971 views - 11/01/11 by Mike Dipetrillo in Articles
I received an email from Amazon today that I have never seen before. Here it is in its entirety:
Hello,
We have noticed that one or more of your instances...
2 replies - 6073 views - 10/26/11 by Craig Dickson in News
A companion post by Josh Duncan summarizes a session at DevOps Days by Jesse Robbins, the CEO of Opscode (they make 'Chef' if you don't know). The session,...
0 replies - 3419 views - 10/21/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
It occurs to me that much of "Big IT" creates a well-oiled
organization that makes broken software seem acceptable. The breakage is
wrapped in...
13 replies - 5551 views - 10/19/11 by Steven Lott in News
Are you still doing deployments at 3:00am? If you are, you should have taken a look at Brian Crescimanno's post: "Why are you still deploying...
2 replies - 7611 views - 10/17/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
During a keynote that saw Larry Ellison
make up for his abysmal performance of a few days before, and before
bigger news events in Silicon Valley bought...
0 replies - 2791 views - 10/12/11 by Ben Kepes in News
John Allspaw and Paul Hammond did a great presentation at Velocity 2009 about the tools and culture at Flickr, which enable them to do 10+ deploys per day.
My...
1 replies - 4779 views - 10/11/11 by Matthias Marschall in News
First a bit of background. I’m a software developer (lately in Ruby and a tiny bit of Java, previously in Python, C# and PHP;
yes I got around...
1 replies - 4508 views - 10/10/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in News
Historically we set out to use Vagrant
on the developers laptop. Soon, the complexity of our setup had
outgrown the developers laptop and required another...
0 replies - 4578 views - 10/03/11 by Patrick Debois in News
I firmly
believe that software developers not being responsible for their
software in production is as damaging, bad and stupid as bankers not
being...
10 replies - 11115 views - 10/01/11 by Wille Faler in News
Fact: Open source is a fundamental part of many of the world's leading development organizations, and is often credited with enabling and enhancing innovation....
0 replies - 3443 views - 09/21/11 by Brandon Nokes in Uncategorized
