Wednesday
Jun132012

DevOps Cafe Episode 30

Stop starting. Start finishing

John and Damon finally get a chance to interview David J. Anderson and Dominica DeGrandis from David J. Anderson & Associates. David is the pioneer who -- literally -- wrote the book on what is now known in the IT world as Lean Kanban. From Kanban's roots, to why Kanban actually works, to Kanban's relationship with topics like Theory of Constraints and Agile, this conversation hits the topics the John and Damon have been waiting to ask.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


  

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Follow Dominica DeGrandis on Twitter: @dominicad


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Wednesday
Jun062012

DevOps Cafe Episode 29

DevOps. We're (getting) big in Japan.

John and Damon both made the trek to Japan to speak at DevOps Days Tokyo. In this short epsiode, an exhausted group of John, Damon, and local organizer, Jay Hotta, comment on what it was like to be a part of Japan's first DevOps Days event.

 

 

 

  

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Follow Naotaka Jay Hotta on Twitter: @jhotta


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Saturday
May262012

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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Special thanks to Good Company Communications for recording this episode.

Video will be posted soon to the Opscode account on YouTube 

 

 

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If you are in the Atlanta area and are interested in Kanban, John has just started the Atlanta Limited WIP Society!


Thursday
May102012

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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Monday
Apr232012

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 Damon Edwards on Twitter: @damonedwards
Follow Adam Jacob on Twitter: @adamhjk


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