Last week we held our third annual Chef Community Summit in London. It was a sell-out event attended by 160 members of our community, both open source users and commercial customers. Our community in EMEA is a mix of folks from different industries and countries.

I’m delighted to announce that Elastic is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. Elastic’s cookbook named elasticsearch will install and help configure your elastic instance. Elastic provides real-time insights and makes massive amounts of structured and unstructured data usable for developers and enterprises.

The Chef Certification Program is an exciting opportunity to deliver more value for your organization and take your career to the next level. Chef skills are in greater demand than ever.

We have created an open Slack team for the Chef Community. Sign-up for the team at community-slack.chef.io. Moving forward, Slack will be the default tool for online communication within the community. Slack is great for both synchronous and asynchronous communication.

Despite our normal testing and processes, the 12.14.60 release of Chef Client included a number of regressions and escaped defects (you may also call them “bugs”).  One of the defects was the yum_repository resource which was added and released in chef-client version 12.14.60.

A team of 14 Chef’s made the trek to balmy Atlanta along with 24,000+ customers and partners to participate in Microsoft Ignite, September 26th – 29th. It was a busy and fun-filled week participating in Microsoft’s largest event of the year. The keynotes and sessions were very informative.

Software is today’s competitive currency in every industry. And the most effective software delivery requires velocity and scale. DevOps is a working philosophy that helps companies change their culture and technology to drive performance in today’s digital economy. DevOps is reinventing how we run our businesses. But what does the future hold?

Seattle is now a technology epicenter — the growth of tech in Seattle brought roughly nine new jobs and seven new people every hour in 2015. You can see it in the cranes peppered throughout the city and you can feel it as a renewed energy is bringing the Pacific Northwest tech community to life.

Last weekend, Chef was proud to sponsor and participate at DevOpsDays NYC 2016. This multi-city event brings developers and sysadmins together to iterate on past learnings and present new findings on ways to better the interactions between teams.