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AWSome Atlanta February 2010
Great write up from Chris Curtin ( “Chris’ Tech Blog” ) on last nights Atlanta Cloud Meetup (AWSome). Josh Timberman gave a Chef and the Cloud presentation. It was the largest turnout in "AWSome’s two year history. Great job Josh.
Does Automation Replace Humans?
Somewhere in a land a long time ago, there was this steel factory in the heartland of Pennsylvania. In this steel factory there was a bulletin board on a factory floor room, and on the board were two large posters.
Opscode Announces John Willis as New Vice President of Training & Services
30-Year Systems Management Luminary to Lead Services Division of Fast Growing Infrastructure Automation Start-Up SEATTLE, WA—(Marketwire – February 3, 2010) – Opscode, Inc., a cloud infrastructure automation company, today announced the appointment of John Willis as the company’s new Vice President of Training & Services.
Adam Jacob and John Willis to attend first Opscamp in Austin
The cloud has lowered the barrier to entry for businesses to own a data center; however, it has not decreased the complexity of managing applications and data center operations.
Chef Cooks In Atlanta
The week of February 8th Opscode will be having some fun in Atlanta. Josh Timberman @jtimberman, one of the Opscode senior engineers, will be in Atalanta to do some work with Chef community in Atlanta. Here are some of the highlights for that week.
Opscode supports CloudCampHaiti – Jan 20, 2010
CloudCamp Haiti is a virtual unconference held as a public webinar. CloudCamp Haiti builds upon the popular CloudCamp format by providing a free and open place for the introduction and advancement of cloud computing. For this event, we are raising funds to donate to the aid effort in Haiti.
Chef 0.7.16 Release
Welcome to Chef 0.7.16, the “Bryan McLellan is looking out for you” release! 0.7.16 contains only two bug fixes, and both involve chef inappropriately setting file permissions in some cases. Bryan is this releases MVP, for making sure that we got the bug-fix release out the door.
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.