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Automation is the Rule at Fotopedia with Chef + AWS…
The Amazon AWS team just posted a great interview with Olivier Gutknecht of Fotopedia about the infrastructure they use to process the huge amount of information that makes up their (beautiful!) site. Fotopedia is the first collaborative photo encyclopedia.
Opscode Holiday Open House in Seattle on December 16th!
It’s time for the first annual Opscode Holiday Open House! We are opening up our Seattle headquarters to gather with friends, share some food and drink and, if you’re lucky, play a game or two of DJ Hero.
Tuesday Crunchie Nominations for Chefs
There are a lot of Chefs out there working on awesome startups big & small. We want to do everything we can to help get you the recognition you deserve. One way is by helping you to get Crunchie nominations.
Opscode is Hiring Again!
We’ve got 3 new developer positions posted. Check out our updated Careers page to see the available positions.
Attention Chefs: You deserve Crunchie Nominations!
There are a lot of Chefs out there working on awesome startups big & small. We want to do everything we can to help get you the recognition you deserve… and the Crunchies are coming up fast!. We’re building a list of Chef-powered Startups with links to the Crunchie nomination form.
Akita on Rails interviews Adam Jacob and Jesse Robbins
Fabio Akita (aka AkitaOnRails) just posted his interview with Adam and Jesse, Opscode’s CTO and CEO. Fabio is a long-time member of the Brazilian Rails community and is the author of the first Rails book in the Portuguese language. He is also the organizer of the Rails Summit Latin America.
A Chef First: Kamal builds an entire app server in a single tweet!
Last night one of our favorite Chefs Kamal Fariz Mahyuddin (@kamal on twitter) achieved another first, an entire app server configured in a single tweet. This awesomeness was worth memorializing here. Nice work Kamal!
The New Opscode Cookbook Site.
As Chef becomes more popular, its users need a central place to discover the cookbooks that already exist, and the community needs mechanisms to rate them and bubble the best ones up to the top. That’s why today Opscode is launching a new part of the Opscode.com website, dedicated to Chef cookbooks.
Chef 0.7.14, Ohai 0.3.6 Releases
Piping hot from the kitchen, I’m pleased to announce the release of both Chef 0.7.14 and Ohai 0.3.6. Thom May is awarded the MVP this release for fixing Chef to manage Yum correctly on CentOS4 with some well-appreciated Python skill.