Tag: austin
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New Relic – DevOps Days Austin
Here is the second of two videos on Application Performance Management from DevOps Days Austin. Heiko Leibenath of New Relic, which recently received an additional $100M in funding, gives an overview of this APM vendor who is making the transition to “Software analysis vendor.” Some of the ground Heiko covers: Why Heiko moved from…
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CFEngine, where its been and where its going — DevOps Days Austin
Today’s entry from DevOps Days Austin concludes the series on configuration management tools. Today’s interview features Jonathan Thorpe of CFEngine, the company that started the whole configuration management thang back in the 90’s. Some of the ground Jonathan covers Why Jonathan recently joined CFEngine and its role with mobile and embedded A quick history of CFEngine…
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Learning about Puppet Enterprise – DevOps Days Austin
Last week was DevOps Days here in Austin and I conducted a bunch of interviews. On Friday I shared an interview with Andrew Clay Shafer who gave the first-day keynote. The next three interviews I’ll be posting deal with configuration management tools. Im going to kick off the topic with an interview with Lindsey Smith who recently joined…
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LittleIdea: No true DevOps (but we do have Samurai) — DevOps Days Austin
Earlier this week the third annual DevOps Days Austin took place. Given that it was Cinco de Mayo, and given that it was Austin, as we walked in on the first day we were greeted by a mariachi band. Also on the first day we were treated to an opening keynote by Andrew Clay Shafer. Shafer,…
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DevOps Days Austin — John Willis: Culture as the secret weapon in the war of hiring
DevOps Days Austin took place earlier this week here in our fair city. Kicking off the festivities was Mr. John Willis who delivered the DevOps state of union. I grabbed sometime with John on day two to discuss what he talked about: Some of the ground John covers: Culture as the secret weapon in the war…
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DevOpsDays Austin kicks off, A short history
Yesterday, DevOpsDays Austin kicked off at National Instruments. If you’re not familiar with DevOps, its the idea of using people, processes and tools to break down the wall that traditionally exists between developers and operations with the idea of removing friction and increasing velocity to better support and drive the business. The Austin event was…
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Dell’s Analyst Event – Summary of day 1 and feedback from Redmonk’s Michael Cote
Today at the W hotel in Austin, Dell held its bi-annual analyst summit. Today’s event is the third in a series of analyst functions organized around the theme “Services and Solutions for the Virtual Era.” The first event was held in San Francisco in March of last year and the second came six months later…
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Cloud Camp Austin 2010
Last Thursday over a 100 cloud enthusiasts gathered for Cloud Camp Austin. The event was held at Pervasive Software‘s headquarters and kicked off after 5PM with munchies and beer. The event brought in folks all around Austin as well as visitors from exotic areas like upstate New York (the group had been in town for…
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Happy Thanksgiving from Austin, TX
When our kids get older, we’re looking forward to having traditional Thanksgiving dinners like we remember. At this point, however, given their attention span and energy (one being short, the other seemingly infinite) we decided to go out to a family friendly restaurant that comes with an outdoor area for the kids to romp around…
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Goats in the Trees
On Saturday we took the kids to the Sweet Berry Farm pumpkin patch in Marble Falls, about an hour outside of Austin. When we checked out the petting zoo we were quite surprised to find the goats hanging out in the trees. I thought I’d share this rare glimpse of the species goatis-tree-dwellis. This guy…
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The Coolest Pumpkin in the Neighborhood ’07
Last year when I took my daughter trick-or-treating I came across the amazing pumpkin below. I have no idea how they carved this. If you don’t recognize the creature, he’s from the film Pan’s Labyrinth. I can’t wait to see what they carve this year! Pau for now…
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All Creatures Great and Small (in Austin)
I’ll have to admit that I was a bit surprised to learn that there was an exotic zoo/safari park just outside of Austin. To be more precise, its just outside of Johnson City (the boyhood home of LBJ) which is probably why its named the Johnson City Exotic Resort Zoo. The park has over 500…