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How to Get Apache Mahout Recommenders into Grails

Apache Mahout is a scalable machine learning framework that can be used to create intelligent applications. In this article we’ll see how Mahout can be...

0 replies - 5315 views - 07/07/12 by Robin Bramley in Articles

The Potential Problems of DevOps Culture

At the Devopsdays conference in Mountain View, Spike Morelli led an Open Space discussion on the importance of culture. He was concerned that when people...

0 replies - 3562 views - 07/06/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

Puppet: sudo, sudo -i and sudo su

On the project I’m currently working on we’re doing quite a bit of puppet and although we’re using the puppet master approach in production &...

0 replies - 4024 views - 07/06/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Positive Software Engineering

I came across a story recently on hacker news:  My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report. How can I convince him that it’s...

0 replies - 5569 views - 07/05/12 by Larry White in Articles

The Four-Letter Word Dividing Dev and Ops

What’s that word?  RISKOperations teams are tasked with stability and uptime. That means working against change, limiting or slowing it down where...

1 replies - 3536 views - 07/04/12 by Sean Hull in Articles

The DevOps Cycle

About the Video: Agile development and Cloud computing are causing organizations to consider how DevOps strategies support the entire application change...

0 replies - 4428 views - 07/03/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

10 Twitter Accounts To Follow About DevOps, Scaling & Web Performance

We wanted to establish a list of some of the best Twitter personalities to follow about DevOps, web performance, and development. Not all of these...

1 replies - 5858 views - 07/01/12 by Brian Whalley in Articles

Where Development Meets QA

In the software world, development and QA are often organised into two separate teams. Developers are responsible for writing the code, which...

0 replies - 4660 views - 06/30/12 by Ben Wootton in Articles

PowerCLI: Automate Reverting CI Agents to a Snapshot

My friend Ed’s capacity to automate stuff is quite awesome. Yesterday he automated a way of making our Continuous Integration system alert us when one of...

0 replies - 3108 views - 06/27/12 by James Betteley in Articles

Sinagios – a Very Simple RESTful API for Nagios Downtime

Last week I spent a bit of time scratching an itch I’ve had with doing maintenance. We use Nagios for our monitoring (without any addons, plugins or...

0 replies - 4189 views - 06/26/12 by Oliver Hookins in Articles

The DevOps Reading List: 10 Books & Blogs You Should Be Reading

When you’re doing research and planning application development, it’s always useful to learn from the stories and experience of your peers. Your...

2 replies - 9942 views - 06/25/12 by Brian Whalley in Articles

Continuous Delivery, Warts and All

Tom Duckering was back at Skills Matter this week, and this time he bought a friend (and fellow thoughtworker), Marc Hofer. They were there to talk to us...

0 replies - 5248 views - 06/24/12 by James Betteley in Articles

3 Crazy Ideas to Make your DevOps Proposal Seem Reasonable

I work with “The Enterprise” everyday. Sadly, this has nothing to do with Star Trek – just big companies with lots of internal politics. As our...

2 replies - 4956 views - 06/23/12 by Eric Minick in Articles

Graphite-Web Puppet Module and Patch for Collectd’s RRD Support

If you’re running collectd chances are you’ve struggled or are struggling with the web frontend. The one shipped with collectd has some limitations and...

0 replies - 3643 views - 06/22/12 by Spike Morelli in Articles

DevOps Prisoner’s Dilemma

We often talk about tension caused competing bonus / success structures for development and operations teams in the build and release process. At Gartner...

0 replies - 3675 views - 06/20/12 by Eric Minick in Articles