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Everything I learned about CI , I learned from System Administration

Abstract Julian Simpson: Before I donned my secret identity as The Build Doctor, I was a average Solaris administrator (okay, I spent too much time playing...

0 replies - 5127 views - 11/25/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

A Case Study in Operations and Development Integration at Spotify

Abstract Mattias Jansson, Noa Resare: We have lots of material to draw from talking about how we work with integration between operations and software...

0 replies - 5108 views - 11/24/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DevOps is not an absolute. It's a range

Abstract by Mitchell Hashimoto: Many still consider and talk about DevOps as an absolute thing: developers and operations are the same thing. Of course, this...

0 replies - 9005 views - 11/23/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Hiring and embedding new team members at Hyves

The leaders at Hyves stumbled into DevOps by accident five years ago, when nobody (including them) was aware that it was actually a cultural movement....

1 replies - 3951 views - 11/22/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DevOps Guru Ben Rockwell Interview

Matt Simmons, aka the Standalone Sysadmin, recently caught up with DevOps practicioner Ben Rockwell who writes at Cuddletech.So what did Ben Rockwell cite as...

0 replies - 3466 views - 11/22/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DevOps State of the Union

John "Botchagalupe" Willis knows how to give a lively and humorous presentation.  He starts this one off saying it's going to be all about PUPPET VS...

0 replies - 4100 views - 11/21/11 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 - 3613 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 - 5151 views - 11/18/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

USA: Computer Professionals Update Act

A bill is currently making its way through the United States Senate that effectively eliminates overtime pay for IT professionals. Matt Simmons, aka. the...

1 replies - 8623 views - 11/17/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Being Agile in Release Management

2 great things happened in 2005: Wales won the Grand Slam, and I had my first taste of “agile”. And after having worked on a 3-year-long waterfall...

0 replies - 6784 views - 11/17/11 by James Betteley in Articles

From Dev to DevOps with Maven and Puppet

Maven is an open source tool that you may not have thought of as a 'DevOps tool', but that's pretty much what it is for the development department.  It's used...

0 replies - 6555 views - 11/16/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

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 - 5833 views - 11/16/11 by Mike Dirolf in Articles

The Misuse of End To End Tests - Testing Techniques 2

My last blog was the first in a series of blogs on approaches to testing code, outlining a simple scenario of retrieving an address from a database using...

0 replies - 4902 views - 11/16/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles

DevOps Tweets of the Week - 11/14

Always entertaining are the insightful or agitated comments from developers and sysadmins on twitter.  The DevOps community has quite a strong twitter...

0 replies - 5354 views - 11/14/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Sometimes it *IS* about the Tools—Solving Cultural Issues with Software

While it is generally true that you can't solve a soft skill issue with technology, there are cases where tooling can help promote greater cultural harmony...

0 replies - 3883 views - 11/14/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles