Author:
Lucas Welch
Former Chef Employee
#ChefTalks: Target and Ancestry.com on Cultural Change and Speed in Enterprise IT
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By Lucas Welch
A few months back at #ChefConf we had the opportunity to connect some very cool people for a series of “#ChefTalks: Kitchen Chats” on-site at the show. In short, we put together smart people to discuss what’s really going on in IT, from driving organizational and cultural change to skill-building to new technology.
Read moreRelease! A card game about software and the people who make it
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We’re pretty hyped to announce that we’re backing a very cool new project on Kickstarter – “Release! A card game about software and the people who make it.” What is it exactly?
Read moreMmm, mmm, good. Talk Chef over Curry in London
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By Lucas Welch
London Technology Week sweeps through the city June 16-20 and Chef is getting in on the fun with a tasty dinner event on June 18. From 6-9 pm Greenwich Time, join our European Chef team – Justin Arbuckle, Andy Hawkins, John Fitzpatrick, and Andrew Gough – at Curry Leaf East, 20 City Road in London.
Read moreNew Book: ‘Managing Windows Servers with Chef’ by John Ewart
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The Chef Community delivers yet again. John Ewart, a system architect, software developer, and lecturer based in California, recently published, “Managing Windows Servers with Chef” which can be purchased here.
Read moreSecurity @Adobe Details Chef-Automated Security Testing
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By Lucas Welch
Our good friends at Adobe have been awesome about providing technical insight into their use of Chef in the past. Yesterday, their lead security strategist Peleus Uhley, continued this trend with a very informative blog detailing Chef-automated security testing in Adobe’s private cloud infrastructure.
Read moreDisrupting the Gaming Industry: Riot Games in Harvard Business Review
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By Lucas Welch
Our friends at Riot Games have been awesome enough to tell their story at a number of Chef events, and even took us to school in a “Riot Rumble” here at Chef HQ last year. So it’s especially delightful to see Riot profiled in the Harvard Business Review.
Read moreChef Taps Former GE Capital Chief Architect to Lead EMEA Operations
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By Lucas Welch
Justin Arbuckle Brings More Than 20 Years of Experience in Transforming Enterprise IT for Speed and Scale to Chef Leading UK-Based IT Recruitment Firm Reports Chef is Top 10 IT ‘Skill on the Rise’ SEATTLE – May 27, 2014 – Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced that Justin Arbuckle will join the […]
Read moreChef and CloudBees Deliver Continuous Delivery Traceability for Jenkins
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By Lucas Welch
The good folks over at CloudBees have been working with us over the past few months on a pretty cool project – enhancing Jenkins traceability. The enhancement gives developer and operations personnel the ability to use Jenkins for the first time to trace application code changes from development through to deployment, and into production.
Read moreLive Webcast: 5 Keys to Building a Successful DevOps Culture (Thur. May 22)
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By Lucas Welch
Our friends at Serena Software host a monthly “DevOps Drive-In” series of webcasts and for May’s episode our own Mandi Walls will be holding a live Q&A at 9 am PT/Noon ET this Thursday, 5/22, on the five keys to building a successful DevOps culture.
Read moreWelcome Chef’s Ada Developers Academy Intern Davida Marion
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By Lucas Welch
A few months back, we got involved in an awesome organization, the Ada Developers Academy, which is an intensive software developer training school for women. One component of our participation is to provide an internship for an Ada Developers Academy student.
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