Devops Hackday with Cloudfoundry at VMWare  about 300 ppl showed up.  

First ting we did was everyone got the CF Micro on USB stick (cloud on a stick) 

http://kb.dtosolutions.com/wiki/Cloud_Foundry_Micro

two teams about 9 guys did a puppet git to jenkins to cf automation pipleline.  

Second team was git to jenkins to tomcat with zenoss 

http://kb.dtosolutions.com/wiki/DTO_Hack_Day_09/08/2011

Takes aways for VMware was that it’s not just about the cloud.  They thought

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Podcast with Chris Pinkham, CEO of Nimbula, during VMworld 2011

http://neovise.com/podcast-vmworld-2011-nimbula-chris-pinkham-cloud-interview 

Chris was formerly Vice President, IT Infrastructure at Amazon.com

Nimbula Director 

Like I said that area is a blood bath.  I know this when I was at Canonical tring to slep UEC and that was before HP, Dell, Citrix were in the game... 

all the start ups...

10gen raises $20M for MongoDB in maturing NoSQL space

http://gigaom.com/cloud/10gen-raises-20m-more-for-mongodb-in/ 

has raised $20 million in a Series D funding round. Sequoia Capital Total venture backing to more than $31 million.

The post points out the Couchbase has raised around 30m as well. Damien Katz is the createor of Couchdb... was an orginally a Lotus Notes developer, then started the CB project, then IBM hired him to work on CB and now he is part of Couchbase...

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/katz-couchdb-and-me 

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$3m Wellington rail project behind schedule

 a $3 million project to install an IBM asset management system, is six months behind schedule.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/5606019/3m-Wellington-rail-project-behind-schedule 

When will this madness stop... I think about flightcast... Built an airline flight delay predictor that is in the high 80% tiles beased out of y combinator with three guys total capital probally less that 1/2 million... 

No excuse for this kind of behavior...

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dnsxd is an Erlang DNS server with a focus on DNS Service Discovery.

https://github.com/andrewtj/dnsxd

dnsxd's default datastore module is an interface to CouchDB

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Dustin Kirkland has two posts on installing Cloudfoundry on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install cloudfoundry-server

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2011/08/howto-install-cloudfoundry-server-paas.html---

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Devops Book List

http://devopsbooks.com/ 

The Visible Ops Handbook: Starting ITIL in 4 Practical Steps 

Gene Kim

Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) 

Micheal Nygaurd

Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

George Reese of Entratus

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

Jez Humble

Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time

John Alspaw

Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy

James Turnbull

Not on the list...

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries

Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef by Stephen Nelson-Smith