DevOps... it's the "why?" not the "what".
You might know Ben Rockwood from his past work with the Open Solaris community or perhaps you caught his DevOps themed keynote at LISA 2011. He's always seemed to have a good knack from getting to the essence of of DevOps problems and solutions. In this episode we chat with Ben about a range of topics, including what he's learned from Lean and Operations Management to what tools he finds interesting these days.
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Notes:
- Ben's and his blog can be found at cuddletech.com
- Ben's DevOps keynote from LISA 2011 (with his full reading list)
- The "monitoring sucks" community was mentioned
- Ben explained where SmartOS came from and why it's getting buzz
- Ben is like where the Sensu monitoring project
- Ben recommended Lean IT, Visible Ops, and Management Challenges for the 21st Century
- There is an upcoming Kanban and DevOps meetup in Silicon Valley
- John Willis works for Enstratus
- Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions
- Ben Rockwood works for Joyent
Please leave comments or questions below and we'll read them on the show!