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Lucas Welch
Former Chef Employee
Awesome Chefs – BlueKai’s development and operations teams learn to work faster, smarter, and more collaboratively
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By Lucas Welch
You may have heard of BlueKai. They’re a mover-and-shaker in “big data”, giving marketers, agencies, and organizations of all types a SaaS platform for ‘activating data’.
Read moreCheck us out @AGILE Talking DevOps, Chef, and More
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By Lucas Welch
The AGILE 2013 conference descends on grand ol’ Nashville next week and of course your friends from Opscode will be there in force, from an exhibition booth to our awesome consultant and “lnxchk” Mandi Walls speaking on (what else?
Read moreSeattle, Start-ups, and the ‘Goldilocks Theory’
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By Lucas Welch
Given we were founded and are headquartered in Seattle, it was exciting to see the Atlantic ranked Seattle as our nation’s leading high-tech mecca (last year).
Read moreAwesome DevOps Panel: IBM, Netflix, Warner Music, Opscode, Jenkins, & Puppet
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By Lucas Welch
This is not only a cool panel topic, but also a rad group of people to have all discussing DevOps and Continuous Delivery (in the cloud) at one time. Last week, Redmonk analyst James Governor hosted the latest addition to the IBM PureSystems video chat series on opinionated infrastructure.
Read moreIn the News: Cloud Market Analysis; DevOps in Govt.; Reinventing Your Identity
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By Lucas Welch
Thus far this week has seen a few interesting pieces across the IT and business media landscape. First up, Charles Babcock at InformationWeek argues that theorizing the big vendors will eventually own the cloud is premature. He provides some interesting point-counterpoint from himself and other media colleagues here.
Read moreIn the News: MSFT Reorg, DevOps in the Enterprise, and Amazon Price Cuts
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By Lucas Welch
Coming off Independence Day, this week has seen an active news cycle in tech, led by Microsoft announcing a significant reorganization of the software giant around “One Microsoft”. All Things D takes a look at what it all means here, while InformationWeek takes a bigger picture look here.
Read moreAwesome Chefs – Coding a Customer Service Platform for 35 Million Consumers
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By Lucas Welch
You’ve heard our founder Adam Jacob talk about it before – software is increasingly becoming the delivery platform for goods and services in today’s economy. So, it only makes sense that companies would want to leverage SaaS to extend customer service capabilities, shorten customer feedback loops, and provide a better overall customer experience.
Read moreIn the News: Coding Camps, Industrial Web, and the Cloud’s Tipping Point
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By Lucas Welch
We continue our weekly(ish) series of blogs consolidating interesting and relevant news for all of you in the Community today with a few varied articles: Still looking for ways to keep your adolescent or teen busy this summer?
Read more“Infrastructure as code is transformational.” – GE Automates the Industrial Internet w/Chef
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A new week and a new #ChefTalks video about the awesomeness our customers are achieving w/Chef.
Read moreIn the News: ‘Clever’ Cloud Mgmt Tools, Forrester Rates PaaS Providers, GE + AWS
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By Lucas Welch
It’s been an interesting news cycle so far this week. Besides our friends at Cumulus Networks coming out of stealth with the first-ever Linux OS for networking and Velocity 2013 kicking off with some excitement, there have been a number of other notable happenings to keep up with, as well.
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