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Enterprise IT & DevOps: You’re Not a Beautiful and Unique Snowflake

This post was originally published on Goat Can. “You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying Enterprise IT Org as everyone else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re all singing, all dancing crap of IT.

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New Video: DevOp w/Chef’s Nathen Harvey

Our own Nathen Harvey recently created a rockin’ and rappin’ (litterally) video presentation on what DevOps is – and is not – called “DevOps with Me!”. We could write a whole bunch of words about how unique and creative Nathen’s comparisons are here, but we’ll let you be the judge.

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Awesome Chefs – CustomInk Unites Dev & Ops, Codes Their Business

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.

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DevOps + Continuous Delivery @ FlowCon on 11/1

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?

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Podcast: An Application-Centric Approach to DevOps using Cloudify + Chef on Cloudstack

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.

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Velocity Greatest Hits Part II – Adam Jacob’s “Choose Your Own Adventure”

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.

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Awesome Chefs – Encyclopedia Life Uses Chef for Global DevOps

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.

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Prezi Talks DevOps @GigaOM Structure Europe

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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Awesome Chefs – Wanelo Delivers Huge Ruby on Rails App w/Enterprise Chef

Shopping online is nothing new. But our friends at Wanelo (pronounced “wah-NEE-lo” from want, need, love) have whipped up something awesome with an online platform uniting shoppers, products, and stores on a 100% member-driven community. In other words, Wanelo helps millions of people share and find dynamite products at cool stores for great prices.

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Introducing Enterprise Chef

What’s in a name? Turns out, a lot. Today we announced that Private Chef and Hosted Chef are now renamed to Enterprise Chef™ offered both as on-premise software and as a hosted service. So what?

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