Rather thank trying to find a 'rock star' to come and be your savior, try moving from small groups to collaborative teams and processes, rather than people, that are 'rock star'.
3 replies - 3256 views - 02/06/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles
In 5 minutes you'll have the guidance you need to become 10 times better at your development environment maintenance and your delivery of software. These are 17 distilled web operations rules to live by.
0 replies - 2664 views - 02/02/12 by James Sugrue in Articles
As the interface between Development and Operations, Application Release Management1
handles information that is highly relevant to your Release and
Operations teams. Selecting an Application Release Automation solution
that provides insight and analytics...
0 replies - 2079 views - 02/01/12 by Andrew Phillips in Articles
As I mentioned in a post last week
we’ve been automating the setup of our developer machines with puppet
over the last week and one thing that we’ve learnt is that you need to
be careful about how you define dependencies.
The aim is to get your scripts...
0 replies - 4379 views - 01/25/12 by Mark Needham in Articles
Key members of the Etsy engineering team, along with special surprise
guests, offer a series of small rapid talks providing a fast-paced
and intensive...
0 replies - 2862 views - 01/23/12 by Christopher Smith in Videos
Hi all, Willie here.
In my last post, How NOT to collect configuration management data,
I gave a quick rundown of some losing CM data approaches that I and
others have attempted in the past. Most of these approaches were
variants of asking people for...
0 replies - 4094 views - 01/23/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles
Although many tutorials focus on development with Cassandra, this presentation by Nathan Milford concerns Cassandra for SysAdmins.Nathan Milford...
0 replies - 1376 views - 01/20/12 by Eric Genesky in Videos
The final installment of Patrick Dubois' Monitoring Wonderland series, which shows you many options for visualizing all the data you've been collecting from his previous tutorials. Here is part 1 if you missed the beginning of the series. A picture...
0 replies - 2457 views - 01/20/12 by Patrick Debois in Articles
While all the previously described metric systems have easy
protocols, they tend to stay in Sysadmin/Operations land. But you should
not stop there.
There is a lot more to track than CPU,Memory and Disk metrics. This
blogpost is about metrics up the stack:...
0 replies - 1757 views - 01/19/12 by Patrick Debois in Articles
This is a repost of my SysAdvent blogpost. It's merely here for archival purposes, or for people who read my blog but didn't see the sysadvent blogpost.
Why
Lots has been written about Vagrant. It simply is a great tool: people use it as a sandbox...
0 replies - 2617 views - 01/04/12 by Patrick Debois in Articles
This is the start of a (hopefully) series of posts about DevOps, based on my presentation From Dev to DevOps.
The Agile movement stablished a series of development practices quite common nowadays, or at least highly desired:
0 replies - 2244 views - 01/04/12 by Carlos Sanchez in Articles
"Cloud computing" is all the rage recently, and Amazon's EC2 is one
of the major players. The idea of spinning up a new instance of Solr in...
0 replies - 2532 views - 01/02/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos
Personally, I hate the idea of using a desktop as a server in a
production environment. I'm going to define the term "production
environment" first. If you've got an environment, any environment where
the service provided is relied on by...
0 replies - 3789 views - 01/02/12 by Tom O'connor in Articles
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