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Chef Workshops & Talks at SCaLE 12x
Join us at SCaLE 12x, the Linux/Open Source software expo in North America. We’ll be hosting two Chef workshops as well as great Chef technical presentations from Cloud Integrations Lead, Matt Ray and Software Engineer, Sean O’Meara. Matt will be presenting on Chef deployment on OpenStack on Saturday, February 22nd.
Read moreEmpowering An Entire Generation of Businesses to Deliver
By Barry Crist
Chef is surging right now. As we announced yesterday: Total sales last year grew 188 percent over 2012. Our annual recurring revenue quadrupled. Nearly 70 percent of the sales came from Fortune 1000 organizations. European sales grew 400 percent YoY. The open source Chef Community grew more than 200 percent.
Read moreEnterprise IT Is Too Slow for Business Today (Pt. 1)
By Barry Crist
Companies Must Get Addicted to Moving Fast This blog series is about technology and business speed – how it’s stressing organizations; why they need to catch up; and how they can make up lost ground – before they get left behind. The first post, which follows, lays out the problem and solution.
Read moreDiary of our European Adventure
By Lucas Welch
Over the past couple weeks we published a series of blogs previewing the many adventures of a number of our stateside Chefs in Europe, who traveled across the Atlantic to help add to all our European Chef Team has been building in the past year and a half.
Read moreDevOps: What if everything we’ve been doing is wrong?
By Michael Ducy
This post was originally published on Goat Can. After I wrote my last post, I was talking with Donnie Berkholz as we traveled to FOSDEM. Donnie commented on how powerful of a post it was, yet it left the reader hanging. He, and other readers, wanted more.
Read moreBrightest Minds In DevOps To Speak At #ChefConf 2014
By Lucas Welch
Change Agents from GE Capital, InterContinental Hotels Group, Target, and Yahoo Join DevOps Luminaries Rachel Chalmers, Jez Humble, Adam Jacob, and Gene Kim to Address the Chef Community Conference to Feature More Than 55 Presentations on DevOps Best Practices, Continuous Delivery, and Chef Skills BMC Software, Citrix, Google, IBM, Rackspace, and VMware Among Leading Technology […]
Read moreEnterprise IT & DevOps: You’re Not a Beautiful and Unique Snowflake
By Michael Ducy
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.
Read moreNew Video: DevOp w/Chef’s Nathen Harvey
By Lucas Welch
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.
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?
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