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Monitoring Might Suck Less with AssimMon

Yeah, I know Monitoring Sucks, but it can be pretty neat as well. It’s a hard problem, so there are all kinds of interesting approaches to it. A new...

1 replies - 4095 views - 06/01/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

The Problems With Having 'DevOps' in a Job Title

Have you recently changed your job title to include the word devops in it? What were your reasons? Has it given the results you hoped for? It’s been a...

1 replies - 3773 views - 05/30/12 by Spike Morelli in Articles

Embedding Ops Members in Dev teams – My Recent Experience

For about 2 months I was sitting with a dev team while we worked through how to build a new service which will be continuously deployed. I wanted to share...

1 replies - 7260 views - 05/29/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

Comparing the Flavors of Config Managment: Chef, Puppet, etc.

Over the past few years I have had opportunities to learn, adopt and extend different configuration management...

1 replies - 11781 views - 05/27/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles

Migrating from Apache to Nginx with the Edison Build System

I’ve recently decided to take the plunge and move from Apache and Mod_WSGI to Nginx and FastCGI – I was amazed at how simple it was! To get Edison up...

0 replies - 4044 views - 05/26/12 by Matthew Macdona... in Articles

Upcoming Events on Gradle, Jenkins, CD, DevOps, and more

Here’s a bunch of upcoming talks, courses, conferences, things and stuff, which I reckon might be worth checking out.Goto Conference – Amsterdam May...

1 replies - 4419 views - 05/24/12 by James Betteley in Articles

Transferring Large Amount of Data Over the Network: SCP, TAR; SSH, TAR; NC Compared

Scp is slow, that’s a known fact. Known and so annoying that someone tried to fix it by producing the hpn-ssh patch: SCP and the underlying SSH2 protocol...

4 replies - 12148 views - 05/23/12 by Spike Morelli in Articles

Why You Need a DevOps Platform

Until fairly recently, I thought of devops mostly in terms of various sorts of automation: build, test, deployment, operations and SDLC. And while it’s...

2 replies - 4174 views - 05/22/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles

7 Application Deployment Best Practices

Someone just asked me to define “best practices” for a collection of application deployments. The question was impossible to answer because the...

1 replies - 11960 views - 05/20/12 by James Betteley in Articles

Breaking my Production Website: A Post-Mortem

The Really Short Story I had a failed deployment. I know how to handle complex deployments, and didn’t follow my own advice. In the future, I should...

2 replies - 4191 views - 05/19/12 by Eric Minick in Articles

Infrastructure Tooling Anti-Patterns: Accumulator

As our (or our clients) infrastraucture grows and runs for longer durations, I have noticed that there are certaion parts of our infrastructure that are...

0 replies - 4718 views - 05/17/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles

5 Things Amazon Taught me About Deployment Automation

Early this week, I noticed a lightbulb went out and we were out of spares. Instead of adding a trip to the store to my todo list, my first instinct was to...

0 replies - 6539 views - 05/16/12 by Eric Minick in Articles

Devops: How NOT to Collect Configuration Management Data

Hi all, Willie here. This time we’re going to step away from the keyboard and get architectural. But no ivory towers here. In my next two blog posts,...

0 replies - 4854 views - 05/16/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles

Codifying DevOps

While working on the Devops Cookbook with my fellow authors Gene Kim,John Willis,Mike Orzen we are gathering a lot of "devops"...

1 replies - 7292 views - 05/15/12 by Patrick Debois in Articles

Devops: What it is and Why you Should be Doing it

  This could be brogramming. It's not devops.Devops is a big deal nowadays, and there’s a variety of ways people describe it and its...

1 replies - 6161 views - 05/13/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles