Author:
Lucas Welch
Former Chef Employee
ChefConf Talk Spotlight: Scholastic’s Tech Transformation: Taking Servers from Pets to Cattle, Now with More Containers
By Lucas Welch
Continuing our ongoing blog series highlighting all the fantastic talks, workshops, and sponsors at ChefConf 2015, today we’re focusing on our friend John Byrne from Scholastic and his talk, “Scholastic’s Tech Transformation: Taking Servers from Pets to Cattle, Now with More Containers”.
Read moreChefConf Sponsor Spotlight: Careers
By Lucas Welch
Continuing our series of posts about the tremendous sessions, workshop, and sponsors at ChefConf 2015, this blog is dedicated to the many career opportunities you can explore at ChefConf, including those at two of our sponsors – Target and Disney.
Read moreChefConf Workshop Spotlight: “Building A Self-Documenting Application: A Study in Chef and Compliance”
By Lucas Welch
This is a guest blog from Kevin Gilpin, CTO @ Conjur, one of our many awesome ChefConf sponsors. Kevin and his team will also be leading a workshop on March 31, detailed in the following post. When it comes to systems documentation for compliance or regulatory purposes, you can hear the engineers groan.
Read moreChefConf Talk Spotlight: “Entering the Chef Ecosystem from a Windows Background”
By Lucas Welch
Hopefully by now you’ve all seen the ChefConf session guide and are as pumped for the show as we are. If you haven’t already registered, you still have until Wed., 2/4, to take advantage of early bird ticket prices.
Read moreAnnouncing the ChefConf 2015 Schedule
By Lucas Welch
It’s here! The ChefConf 2015 schedule is now live and being updated continuously (well, maybe not continuously, but pretty frequently). This year’s ChefConf will feature more than 40 sessions of dynamite content, from technical how-to presentations and demos, to examinations of cultural change and organizational structure.
Read moreJoin Chef at DeveloperWeek 2015
By Lucas Welch
San Francisco’s largest tech event series, DeveloperWeek, is back in a major way this year, bringing more than 4,000 attendees together to hack, build, collaborate, learn, and, of course, party. From a 1,000-person hackathon (Accelerate 2015) to GirlDevWeek, DeveloperWeek 2015 is packed to the brim with awesome events and dynamic content.
Read morePractical exploration of Chef and Microsoft PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
By Lucas Welch
This is an excerpt from a recent posting on the Cupfighter blog, authored by the team at Schuberg Philis. This entry digs into using Chef with Microsoft Powershell DSC and comes from Chef contributor and Schuberg Philis engineer Bob van den Heuvel.
Read moreDevOps Movement To Convene at ChefConf 2015
By Lucas Welch
Change Agents from GE Capital, InterContinental Hotels Group, Intuit, Scholastic, and Standard Bank to Address 60,000-Strong Chef Community F5 Networks and Microsoft Among Leading Technology Providers Sponsoring ChefConf 2015 SEATTLE – December 17, 2014 – Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced ChefConf 2015, taking place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in […]
Read moreChef Opens New Seattle Headquarters as Business Growth Soars
By Lucas Welch
Company Moves Into New 36,000 Square Foot Headquarters in Downtown Seattle; Plans to Grow to 400 Employees in 2015 Q3 Incremental Recurring Revenue Grows 142 Percent Year-Over-Year; Downloads of Chef More Than Double to 12 Million
Read moreOur new address: www.chef.io
By Lucas Welch
We’ve been making some big moves lately, not only on the business and product fronts, but actual moves, from our new headquarters here in Seattle, to offices in San Francisco and London. Keeping in the swing of things, we have now moved our online home to chef.io. Why?
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