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.

Chef was a proud sponsor of DevOpsDays Chicago on August 30th & 31st at Summit West in beautiful downtown Chicago. A sold-out, diverse crowd gathered for keynotes, presentations, lightning talks, and open spaces to learn, discuss, and promote all things DevOps.

Today kicks off the 97th season of the National Football League (NFL). In that spirit, we’d like to give a shout out to our friend Sean Walberg who works on the infrastructure team there. At this year’s ChefConf, Sean told the story of breaking technology silos at the NFL with Chef.

Overview We recently released a new Habitat Package for deploying JavaEE Web application on Tomcat 8. The best way to learn how to take advantage of this new package is with an example, so that’s what we’ll do in this post. As part of this example, we’ll take the perspective of the Java application developer.

DevOpsDays Boston continues to grow and grow at a rapid pace. Because of this, the event was hosted at the beautiful Park Plaza this year rather than the traditional Microsoft Nerd Center. Among other changes, the typical sweatshirts were ditched for Tea Party related t-shirts encouraging the dumping of “egos,” “blame,” and “silos”.

At Chef, our culture is key to our success. Our executives lead with compassion and transparency; our employees are passionate and understanding. Afterall, the secret of DevOps is that it’s always been about people. And our culture reinforces our business model in a positive cycle. Last week we were honored to be named the No.