Author:
Lucas Welch
Former Chef Employee
#ChefConf Talk Spotlight: “Cynic to Believer” from Schuberg Philis’ Sander van Harmelen
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By Lucas Welch
With four weeks to go until #ChefConf, we’re continuing to highlight the many Awesome Chefs presenting at the show. Today we’re previewing “Cynic to Believer – A Continuous Delivery Story w/Chef” by Sander van Harmelen from Schuberg Phillis. Sander’s talk takes place at 11:35 am on Wed., April 16.
Read more#ChefConf Keynote Spotlight: Jez Humble’s ‘DevOps Culture and Practices to Create Flow’
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By Lucas Welch
We’re just over a month away from #ChefConf 2014 and have already spotlighted some very cool training opportunities and released the full show agenda. To continue answering the question, “Why should I attend?” we’ll be spotlighting each of the keynote presentations and a handful of the session presentations over the next few weeks.
Read moreDevOps for developers w/Chef [Part III] (Guest Blog Series)
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By Lucas Welch
We’re continuing Michael Hüttermann’s guest blog series on DevOps and its ability to streamline software development and delivery. Part Three dives into the “DevOps Matrix”. The DevOps Matrix DevOps brings together concepts from Agile, Lean, Theory of Constraints, Kanban, good practices e.g. from ITIL, and just common sense.
Read more2014 Future of Open Source Survey
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By Lucas Welch
We need your help to shape the future of Open Source. We’ve joined with our friends at Black Duck Software and North Bridge, in partnership with Forrester Research Analyst Jeffrey Hammond, to deliver the 2014 Future of Open Source Survey!
Read more#ChefConf 2014 Workshop Spotlight: Git and GitHub
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By Lucas Welch
We’re still rolling with our blog series highlighting each of the #ChefConf workshops and today we take a look at Peter Bell‘s two half-day workshops: – Git and GitHub Foundations – Intermediate and Advanced Git and GitHub Tips and Tricks Peter is a contract member of the GitHub training team and is writing books on […]
Read moreDevOps for developers w/Chef [Part II] (Guest Blog Series)
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By Lucas Welch
We’re continuing Michael Hüttermann’s guest blog series on DevOps and its ability to streamline software development and delivery. Part two explains DevOps in a ‘nutshell’…see Part I and Part III for more. Part II.
Read moreDevOps for developers w/Chef (Guest Blog Series)
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By Lucas Welch
The Chef Community is full of excellent people with cool insights, experiences, and knowledge to share. From #ChefConf to the Developer Summit to Meetups, exchanging ideas is inherent to what our Community is all about. This principle extends to our blog, where we like to feature voices from the Community from time to time.
Read more#ChefConf 2014 Workshop Spotlight: Kanban
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By Lucas Welch
Continuing our blog series highlighting each of the #ChefConf workshops and the unique learning opportunity they each present, today’s post puts the spotlight on Dragos Dumitriu’s “Introduction to Kanban for IT Operations and DevOps”, which will focus on helping people and teams in operations roles develop a new perspective and a new mindset that is […]
Read more#ChefConf 2014 Workshop Spotlight: Awesome Postmortems
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By Lucas Welch
Our third annual user conference is going to be a tremendous event. In addition to dynamite talks, presentations, and meet-ups (featuring GE Capital, Yahoo, and many more), On Tues., April 15, #ChefConf is hosting an incredibly diverse and hands-on day of training, with multiple full day and half-day options available.
Read moreDiary of our European Adventure
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By Lucas Welch
Over the past couple weeks we published a series of blogs previewing the many adventures of a number of our stateside Chefs in Europe, who traveled across the Atlantic to help add to all our European Chef Team has been building in the past year and a half.
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