DevOps Cafe Episode 28

Can there ever be too many Chefs in the kitchen?

Damon and John sit down for a roundtable at ChefConf 2012 with Opscode's senior management (from left to right in the photo below between John and Damon): Jesse Robbins, Chris Brown, Mitch Hill, Adam Jacob.

 Photo Credit: twitter.com/lnxchk

  

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Video will be posted soon to the Opscode account on YouTube 

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DevOps Cafe Episode 27

The Professor schools Skipper and Gilligan

Mark Burgess is a true computer science pioneer. Many of the ideas around server automation that we now consider self-evident DevOps best practices can trace their roots back to Mark's work. With his work in academia (Oslo University College) and his current focus on commercial concerns (cfengine), Mark makes for the the kind of guest that John and Damon love to have on the show. 

  

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Follow Mark Burgess on Twitter: @markburgess_osl

Notes:

• We discussed Mark's interesting path to his current pursuits, CFEngine Inc. and cfengine 3
• Mark was a professor at Oslo University College when he developed cfengine 
• Mark's development of Promise Theory adds to his well known work with convrgent and policy-based systems administration
• John Willis works for Enstratus
• Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions

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DevOps Cafe Episode 26

Can you smell what the Adam is cooking?

Adam Jacob is our guest this week. Adam is the creator of Chef and the co-founder of Opscode. Its a great conversation that ranges from the state of the cloud, to DevOps for business transformation, to building an open source community, to automated orchestration, to even a bit of Chef. 

 

  

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Follow Adam Jacob on Twitter: @adamhjk

Notes:

• Ben Rockwood's excellent LISA presentation came up again
• Simon Sinek's TED talk ("people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it")
• Use the code "devops" and you get 10% off your ChefConf registration!
• Adam is the co-founder of Opscode
• Opscode backs the Chef project (and productizes it)
• John Willis works for Enstratus
• Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions

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DevOps Cafe Episode 25

PaaS is a four letter word if you aren't careful who runs it.

This week we switch it up and go for the manager's perspective. Mark Imbriaco joins us for a chat about his hip career path (37 Signals to Heroku to Living Social), how he puts the best of ideas of a PaaS to work, building a "Developer Happiness" team, distributed workforces, and more. 

  

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Follow Damon Edwards on Twitter: @damonedwards
Follow Mark Imbriaco on Twitter: @markimbriaco

Notes:

• Mark currently works at Living Social
• Mark used to run Ops at 37 Signals and then Heroku
• John commended Mark for his early work with Chef
• There is an upcoming Kanban and DevOps meetup in Silicon Valley
• John Willis works for Enstratus
• Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions

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DevOps Cafe Episode 24

Sure it's about culture... but who doesn't love the cool tools?

"@portertech" is a one of the most common answers when we ask people to tell us "who is working on cool stuff?". So of course we had to get Sean Porter on the show to tell us what he is up to. When not trying to automate his day job, Sean is active cranking out cool tools like Sensu. In this episode, we not only talk to Sean about tools but we also talk about how a distributed and growing company like Sonian strives to build their world without DevOps problems.

  

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Follow Damon Edwards on Twitter: @damonedwards
Follow Sean Porter on Twitter: @portertech

Notes:

• Sean Porter's blog is portertech.ca
• The "monitoring sucks" community was mentioned again
• Sean started the Sensu monitoring project
• See other stuff that Sean is working on (github)
• There is an upcoming Kanban and DevOps meetup in Silicon Valley
• John Willis works for Enstratus
• Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions
• Sean Porter works for Sonian

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