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DevOps for developers w/Chef [Part IV] (Guest Blog Series)

By Lucas Welch
We’re continuing Michael Hüttermann’s guest blog series on DevOps and its ability to streamline software development and delivery. Part Four covers DevOps misunderstandings. Some DevOps misunderstandings There are some common misunderstandings about DevOps. Some people think DevOps strives for new organizational units or teams (“another silo will solve it”). That’s not true.
Read moreWindows + Chef: New Azure Demo, #ChefConf Talks, and More

By Lucas Welch
Here at Chef we’re working closely with Microsoft and the wider Windows Community to make Windows a first-class Chef experience. Microsoft is a big supporter of Chef and we’re continuing to add functionality and build out our joint engineering road map together.
Read more#ChefConf Talk Spotlight: “Cynic to Believer” from Schuberg Philis’ Sander van Harmelen

By Lucas Welch
With four weeks to go until #ChefConf, we’re continuing to highlight the many Awesome Chefs presenting at the show. Today we’re previewing “Cynic to Believer – A Continuous Delivery Story w/Chef” by Sander van Harmelen from Schuberg Phillis. Sander’s talk takes place at 11:35 am on Wed., April 16.
Read more#ChefConf Keynote Spotlight: Jez Humble’s ‘DevOps Culture and Practices to Create Flow’

By Lucas Welch
We’re just over a month away from #ChefConf 2014 and have already spotlighted some very cool training opportunities and released the full show agenda. To continue answering the question, “Why should I attend?” we’ll be spotlighting each of the keynote presentations and a handful of the session presentations over the next few weeks.
Read moreDevOps for developers w/Chef [Part III] (Guest Blog Series)

By Lucas Welch
We’re continuing Michael Hüttermann’s guest blog series on DevOps and its ability to streamline software development and delivery. Part Three dives into the “DevOps Matrix”. The DevOps Matrix DevOps brings together concepts from Agile, Lean, Theory of Constraints, Kanban, good practices e.g. from ITIL, and just common sense.
Read moreJoin us this week in Bengaluru
This Wednesday, we are joining with Clogeny for Chef : The Path to Full Automation, an evening of discussions centered around DevOps. Tickets are free and would love see you there. Additional information and registration is available on Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.
Read moreDevOps for developers w/Chef [Part II] (Guest Blog Series)

By Lucas Welch
We’re continuing Michael Hüttermann’s guest blog series on DevOps and its ability to streamline software development and delivery. Part two explains DevOps in a ‘nutshell’…see Part I and Part III for more. Part II.
Read moreParkinson’s Law, DevOps, and Kingdoms

By Michael Ducy
This post was originally published on Goat Can. Destruction of silos is all the rage in DevOps and has been since the beginning of the movement. Patrick Debois wrote a very intelligent piece on why silos exist and how they came about as a management strategy.
Read moreDevOps for developers w/Chef (Guest Blog Series)

By Lucas Welch
The Chef Community is full of excellent people with cool insights, experiences, and knowledge to share. From #ChefConf to the Developer Summit to Meetups, exchanging ideas is inherent to what our Community is all about. This principle extends to our blog, where we like to feature voices from the Community from time to time.
Read more#ChefConf 2014 Workshop Spotlight: Kanban

By Lucas Welch
Continuing our blog series highlighting each of the #ChefConf workshops and the unique learning opportunity they each present, today’s post puts the spotlight on Dragos Dumitriu’s “Introduction to Kanban for IT Operations and DevOps”, which will focus on helping people and teams in operations roles develop a new perspective and a new mindset that is […]
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