You may have heard about Amazon’s newest offering they announced today, CloudFormation. It’s the new hotness, but I see a lot of confusion in the Twitterverse about what it is and how it fits into the landscape of IaaS/PaaS/Elastic Beanstalk/etc.…
You may have heard about Amazon’s newest offering they announced today, CloudFormation. It’s the new hotness, but I see a lot of confusion in the Twitterverse about what it is and how it fits into the landscape of IaaS/PaaS/Elastic Beanstalk/etc.…
Welcome to the second installment in Scrum for Operations, a series where I talk about (and go through) the process of doing systems work as part of a DevOps team according to the Scrum methodology. Last time, I introduced the…
All three Agile Admins were at this Austin event last Saturday; GeekAustin had a set of back to back presentations on puppet, chef, and bcfg2 downtown at Elysium. A good crowd was there, maybe 50 people. Matt Ray presented on…
Agile It’s not a mandatory part of DevOps, but I believe that DevOps works a lot better if operations teams adopt Agile. But all that most systems teams know about Agile is that “it’s that thing that makes the development…
I was just reading this interesting InfoWorld post on The Most Common Turf Wars in IT – very relevant to what we talk about around here. It’s mainly about stakeholders not properly integrated into the product/project/release planning process. Their most…
Recently, I delivered a presentation at the Austin Cloud User Group introducing them to Microsoft Azure. I’m a UNIX bigot and have been doing the Amazon Cloud and open source thing, but we are delivering a product via Azure next…
Cloud computing has been the buzz and hype lately and everybody is trying to understand what it is and how to use it. In this post, I wanted to explore some of the properties of “the cloud” as they pertain…
I went to the local Austin annual IT convention, Innotech, a while back. No, it’s not a coincidence that it sounds like the company from Office Space. It was pretty good, at least for a couple hour visit. It’s…
Two of the Agile Admins, Peco and Ernest, are at the new Strata conference in San Jose this week. It’s about “Data Science” and “Big Data” – the confluence of the NoSQL movement, cloud computing, and the Petabyte Age. We…
