On September 14th I presented a live webinar on The Ruby Behind Chef. There is quite a bit of Ruby behind Chef and it is rather complex. Watch the recording below to hear me explain core Ruby topics by creating our own version of Chef: T-Rex Chef.

The Chef Board of Governance (CBGB) held its second meeting of 2016 on Wednesday, September 7. Eight members of the board attended the meeting. Nathen Harvey and Thom May from Chef Software were also there to observe and advise.

It’s no secret that DevOps is taking the enterprise by storm. In a recent RightScale survey, more than 80 percent of the enterprise and 70 percent of SMBs are adopting DevOps. At its core, DevOps is about building and delivering quality software at scale.

Hello Chefs!  Currently, Chef asks each contributor to a Chef-managed open source project to sign a contributor license agreement (“CLA”) or to be part of a corporate contributor license agreement (“CCLA”) signed by their employer.

Our friends at Data Economy just launched their new site, dedicated to covering the world’s most critical IT infrastructure issues, from cloud to data centers, and how they impact our global economy. To accomplish this mission, Data Economy will be publishing daily news, analysis, opinion and leadership insight from all angles of the IT business.

On September 5th, Chef sponsored the first ever DevOpsDays Oslo. It was also my first DevOpsDays event. If you’ve not been to one, let me share my experience and what to expect. Having come from the busy-ness of London, it was a breath of fresh air to leave my hotel in the cool calm Oslo morning.

You may often have more questions than answers as you progress along your DevOps journey. Which tools should I choose? Do these tools work well together? What have other people done in my situation? You’re often left Googling to find the right integrations and piece together an architectural solution.

It has been a beautiful summer here in the Pacific Northwest. With fall arriving in just a few weeks, my attention has turned to “back to school” activities. Here in the office, this has me thinking about ways the Chef training program supports our practitioners and partners.

Last week, our friends at New Relic hosted a Habitat Hack event in Portland, OR for a dozen attendees from companies like Intel and Workday. Habitat is our latest open-source project that allows you to build your applications with the automation built-in.