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Let’s Meet Up in November!
November brings with it a bunch of opportunities to meet up with your fellow Chefs.
Read moreAwesome Chefs – CustomInk Unites Dev & Ops, Codes Their Business
By Lucas Welch
Our close friends at CustomInk make it easy for anyone to create customized T-shirts, sweatshirts, and much more online. (Sidenote: We work with them to make all our Opscode and Chef T-Shirts). CustomInk employs proprietary, primarily Ruby-based software applications running on both virtualized and cloud servers to manage everything from its website to its printers.
Read moreDevOps + Continuous Delivery @ FlowCon on 11/1
By Lucas Welch
Question: What are Gene Kim (author of “The Phoenix Project”), Jez Humble (DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pioneer), Catherine Courage (VP of Customer Experience at Citrix), John Esser (Director Engineering Productivity and Agile Development at Ancestry.com), and Adrian Cockcroft (Director of Architecture for Cloud Systems @ Netflix) all doing next Friday, 11/1?
Read morePodcast: An Application-Centric Approach to DevOps using Cloudify + Chef on Cloudstack
By Lucas Welch
Next Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 10 am Pacific Time, we’ve joined with our friends at PaddyPower, Cloudify, and CloudStack to host a sweet podcast addressing common obstacles in the journey to DevOps.
Read moreVelocity Greatest Hits Part II – Adam Jacob’s “Choose Your Own Adventure”
By Lucas Welch
In part II of our “Velocity Greatest Hits” blog series leading up to next week’s Velocity NYC, we dive into the mind of Adam Jacob and his famed “Choose Your Own Adventure” talk. Driven by audience interaction and questions, Adam’s “Choose Your Won Adventure” can obviously take a number of different directions.
Read moreVelocity Greatest Hits – Making DevOps a Science
By Lucas Welch
As many of you know, next week is Velocity NYC, where you can find a bunch of the Opscode gang at booth #24 talking about how “code can,” and other cool musings. Leading up to next week’s conference, we thought it’d be cool to revisit some of our greatest hits from Velocity’s years past.
Read moreAwesome Chefs – Encyclopedia Life Uses Chef for Global DevOps
By Lucas Welch
Our friends at the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) began their mission with this idea – humans’ knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth (of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria) is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere.
Read moreCommunity, Bacon, and Giving Back
We’re only about a month away from this year’s Opscode Community Summit. The Opscode Community Summit is a unique opportunity for open-source contributors, Opscode engineers, and Chef users of all experience levels to come together and share their passion and excitement for Chef. The Opscode Community Summit is a facilitated Open Space event.
Read moreAwesome Community Chefs: Miah Johnson – Game for Cookbooking Awesome
By Lucas Welch
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (The MADE) in Oakland, CA is a one-of-a-kind place offering gamers of all shapes and sizes and opportunity to relive the milestones of gaming history and participate in epic tournaments, while kids can learn programming for free and get initiated into gaming culture.
Read morePrezi Talks DevOps @GigaOM Structure Europe
By Lucas Welch
Many of you out there in the Chef Community are likely using Prezi’s dynamite zooming presentation software. Prezi, in turn, is using Enterprise Chef to manage a big gang of AWS resources that serve its nearly 20M users. Cool, yes, but nothing we haven’t said before.
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