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#ChefTalks: Target and Ancestry.com on Cultural Change and Speed in Enterprise IT
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 moreLive from DockerCon
Today we joined our friends at Docker for their user conference – DockerCon 2014. There’s a ton going on at the show today and tomorrow, including Docker announcing its first production-ready version, Docker 1.0. Of course, your friendly Chefs are out in force at the show, so please stop by our booth for a chat.
Read moreNew Book: ‘Managing Windows Servers with Chef’ by John Ewart
By Lucas Welch
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
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
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 moreLive Webcast: 5 Keys to Building a Successful DevOps Culture (Thur. May 22)
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
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.
Read moreComing Soon… The Quiet Revolutionaries (Phil Dibowitz, Jez Humble, Kate Matsudaira, and More)
By Lucas Welch
In the coming weeks Chef will be publishing excerpts from an upcoming collection of editorials entitled The Quiet Revolutionaries, featuring some of the brightest minds in DevOps and web-scale IT. We’ve joined with Devops.com to serialize these essays leading up to the publication of the entire collection, right here at getchef.com.
Read moreNew Book: Chef in Action by Dimitri Aivaliotis
By Lucas Welch
Awesome Chefs make many tremendous contributions to the betterment of the entire Chef Community each and every day. Today is no different and in this post we’ll highlight an especially notable achievement by Dimitri Aivaliotis, a system architect and Chef contributor based in Zurich.
Read moreBetting on Open – A #ChefConf Panel Discussion
By Lucas Welch
New this year for our third annual #ChefConf is a panel we hope all of you will join us for at 4 pm (PT) in the Seacliff room.
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