After speaking with Luke Kanies at OpsCamp, and reading his good and oft-quoted article “Golden Image or Foil Ball?“, I was thinking pretty hard about the use of images in our new automated infrastructure. He’s pretty against them. After careful…
After speaking with Luke Kanies at OpsCamp, and reading his good and oft-quoted article “Golden Image or Foil Ball?“, I was thinking pretty hard about the use of images in our new automated infrastructure. He’s pretty against them. After careful…
It’s funny. When we recently started working on an upgrade of our Intranet social media platform, and we were trying to figure out how to meld the infrastructure-change-heavy operation with the need for devs, designers, and testers to be able…
I was recently reading a good Cameron Purdy post where he talks about his eight theses regarding why startups or students can pull stuff off that large enterprise IT shops can’t. My summary/trenchant restatement of his points: Changing existing systems…
I went to OpsCamp this last weekend here in Austin, a get-togther for Web operations folks specifically focusing on the cloud, and it was a great time! Here’s my after action report. The event invite said it was in the…
