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Apply for a ChefConf 2015 Diversity Scholarship by March 13
We believe that diversity is critical in building a healthy community. One of our core goals is to help address the lack of diversity in attendees at ChefConf. What do we mean by diversity? Ashe Dryden wrote up an excellent blog post following a series of hangouts she held on diversity.
Read moreChefConf Spotlight: Microsoft Sessions, Workshops & More
By Lucas Welch
Last week we announced a new partnership with Microsoft, which was driven in large part by the intense demand we’re seeing in the enterprise for Chef x Azure, Chef x Powershell, and Chef x Visual Studio.
Read moreChefConf Talk Spotlight: A sobering journey from Parse / Facebook
By Lucas Welch
We’re five weeks away from ChefConf 2015 and we’re filling seats fast, so, if you haven’t already, register today and guarantee your seat at the epicenter of DevOps.
Read moreChefConf 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 moreAwesome Community Chefs – Noah Kantrowitz
The Chef community is full of many awesome individuals who contribute and do exceptional things every day. Each year at ChefConf, three individuals are awarded the Awesome Community Chef award.
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 moreChefConf 2015 CFP Deadline Extended to January 15th
A few weeks after joining Chef in 2014, I attended ChefConf for the first time. The introductory keynotes from Barry Crist (Chef’s CEO) and Adam Jacob (Chef’s CTO) really touched a nerve with the strong focus on empathy and delightful experiences.
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