Tag: devops days
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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 NYC — Jonathan Reams of MongoDB
As I continue in my series of videos from DevOps days NYC a few months ago, here is an interview with Jonathan Reams of MongoDB. Johnathan is systems engineer on Mongo’s DevOps team and is helping to make MongoDB, the NoSQL non-relational database, more appealing to operations. Some of the ground Jonathan covers: Mongo’s huMONGOus…
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DevOps Days NYC: Mike Ainsworth of SaltStack
Infrastructure automation and configuration management have become a hot topic as organizations, particularly those in the web and cloud space have continued to scale out. The first player, that helped define the space, was CFengine. Heavy weights in this space now include Puppet and Chef, and at Dell we lead, Project Crowbar, an open source effort…
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Update: Project Sputnik Profile Tool and Cloud Launcher
During last week’s DevOps Days here in Austin, Matt Ray of Opscode and Charles Lowell of the Frontside did a demo showing the status of the Project Sputnik profile tool and the cloud launcher. The profile tool is still at a very early stage, and while the Cloud Launcher exists today in the form of…
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Dell Acquires Enstratius — So what do they do?
Last week at DevOps Days Austin, I did a couple of interviews with John Willis (aka @botchagalupe), VP Client Services and Enablement at Enstratius. The first video dealt with devops and the idea of culture as a secret weapon in the war of hiring. The second one was about Enstratius the company, which coincidentally today Dell…