Author:
Lucas Welch
Former Chef Employee
Chef Growth Soars in 2013
By Lucas Welch
Company’s Total Sales Grew 188 Percent Year-Over-Year; Annual Recurring Revenue Quadrupled Open Source Chef Community Grew More Than 200 Percent, Creating New Automation Skill Base SEATTLE – February 12, 2014 – Chef™, the leader in IT automation, today announced surging adoption of its Chef™ IT automation platform.
Read moreBrightest Minds In DevOps To Speak At #ChefConf 2014
By Lucas Welch
Change Agents from GE Capital, InterContinental Hotels Group, Target, and Yahoo Join DevOps Luminaries Rachel Chalmers, Jez Humble, Adam Jacob, and Gene Kim to Address the Chef Community Conference to Feature More Than 55 Presentations on DevOps Best Practices, Continuous Delivery, and Chef Skills BMC Software, Citrix, Google, IBM, Rackspace, and VMware Among Leading Technology […]
Read moreChef Treks through Europe Pt. III (CfgMgmtCamp & Infrastructure.Next)
By Lucas Welch
Continuing our adventures through Europe, we’re rolling into Gent, Belgium for CfgMgmtCamp, Feb. 3-4. Chef’s founder and creator Adam Jacob is keynoting at Noon CET on Feb.
Read moreChef Treks through Europe Pt. II (FOSDEM & CfgMgmtCamp)
By Lucas Welch
Last week we kicked off our “travel diary” detailing the European adventures of our stateside Chefs joining our European team for some awesome events. After hanging at the London Cloud Summit today, we’ve got lots more to see and do. Tomorrow, Jan. 30, you can attend our 2-Day #learnchef training in Amsterdam.
Read moreParse Uses Chef to Automate Awesome Mobile App Platform
By Lucas Welch
Parse Delivers Complete Mobile App Platform with Chef™ Deploys Enterprise Chef™ to Automate Amazon Web Services Infrastructure, Creating Nimble, Easily Scalable Cloud Service That Gets Developers Up and Running in No Time SEATTLE – January 28, 2014 – Chef™, IT automation for speed and awesomeness, today announced that Parse has automated hundreds of Amazon Web […]
Read moreChef Treks Through Europe Pt. I (London Cloud Summit)
By Lucas Welch
As you all know, we already have a humming operation in Europe. Now, many of our stateside Chefs are about to embark on a true European adventure, beginning with the London Cloud Summit (LCS) on January 29th.
Read morePrep for Our Webinar w/Adobe on 1/23
By Lucas Welch
This Thursday, 1/23, at 10 am PT, our friend John Martinez, who manages the Cloud Platform Engineering team at Adobe, will be joining us for a webinar detailing how his team uses Enterprise Chef, Jenkins, AWS, and more to operate a large, sophisticated cloud infrastructure.
Read moreImproving Our Billing System
By Lucas Welch
Yesterday we gave a brief update on our new billing system and related process that was admittedly short on detail.
Read moreAwesome Community Chef: Eric Wolfe – “Game to Cook (w/Chef, Linux, Pork, Beef…)”
By Lucas Welch
Eric Wolfe received a Commodore 128 computer when he was just five years old and quickly became fascinated with playing games on this new machine. The joys of tinkering with that old Commodore took him through the next decade.
Read moreNew Video: DevOp w/Chef’s Nathen Harvey
By Lucas Welch
Our own Nathen Harvey recently created a rockin’ and rappin’ (litterally) video presentation on what DevOps is – and is not – called “DevOps with Me!”. We could write a whole bunch of words about how unique and creative Nathen’s comparisons are here, but we’ll let you be the judge.
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