Monthly Archives: October 2010

A DevOps Manifesto

They were talking about a DevOps manifesto at DevOpsDays Hamburg and it got me to thinking, what’s wrong with the existing agile development manifesto?  Can’t we largely uptake that as a unifying guiding principle? Go read the top level of

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Do You Need Ops?

Ok, so this is old but I hadn’t read it before.  InfoQ hosted  What is the Role of an Operations Team in Software Development Today? The premise: You don’t need ops any more!  DevOps means your developers can do ops. 

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Cloud Security: a chicken in every pot and a DMZ for every service

There are a couple military concepts that have bled into technology and in particular into IT security, a DMZ being one of them. A Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a concept where there is established control for what comes in and

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Why SSL Sucks

How do you make your Web site secure?  “SSL!” is the immediate response.  It’s a shame that there are so many pain points surrounding using SSL. It slows things down.  On ni.com we bought a hardware SSL accelerator, but in

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What’s a “DevOp?”

I ran across an interesting post by Dmitriy Samovskiy about the difference between a DevOp and a Sysadmin and it raised up some thoughts I’ve had about the classification of different kinds of sysadmin types and the confusion that the

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Innotech Austin Coming Up Oct 28!

The main Austin technology conference, Innotech, is October the 28th!  it’s a good opportunity to see who’s up to what in the Austin area.  And cloud is hot on the list of sessions.  We’re going, who else is?

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