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DevOpsDays Austin 2013 Is Upon Us

Well, I hope you got a ticket for next week’s event because we’re sold out, sponsor slots sold out, all filled up with volunteers, the train has left the station.  It’s going to be a sweet ride.  Check out the

Posted in Conferences, DevOps

Must Read: The Phoenix Project

Have you read the famous systems-management novel The Goal?  No, I know you haven’t, don’t feel bad, I only got to it this year myself. Well, Gene Kim, entrepreneur, consultant, founder of Tripwire, and general insatiable Tweeter, has written a

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Awesome Austin Events!

Besides the “big one,” DevOpsDays Austin 2013, there’s a bunch of great events going on in Austin for techies. The Agile Austin DevOps SIG meets every last Wednesday over lunch at Bazaarvoice; lunch is provided.  This month’s meeting on January

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Posted in Cloud, Conferences, DevOps

DevOpsDays Austin 2013 Is Coming!

It’s been quiet here on the blog but we’ve been busy… And one of those items of busy-ness is setting up DevOpsDays Austin 2013! Many of you came to DevOpsDays Austin 2012, the largest super-awesome Austin DevOps event ever!  Well,

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AppSec USA 2012 Is Here (in Austin)!

AppSec USA 2012, the big OWASP security convention, is here in Austin this year!  And the agile admin’s own @wickett is coordinating it. “Why do I care if I’m not a security wonk,” you ask? Well, guess what, the security

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Speeding Up Releases

Hi all!  My new job’s been affording me few opportunities for blogging, but I’m getting into the groove, so you should see more of me now. Releasing All The Time! Continuous integration is the bomb.  We can all generally agree

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Velocity 2012 Day Two

After John Allspaw and Steve Souders caper about in fake muscles, we get started with the keynotes. Building for a Billion Users (Facebook) Jay Parikh, Facebook, spoke about building for a billion users.  Several folks yesterday warned with phrases like

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Velocity 2012 Day One

Hello all! The Velocity cadre grows as the agile admins spread out.  I’m here with Chris, Larry, and Victor from Bazaarvoice and our new friends Kevin, Bob, and Morgan from Powerreviews which is now Bazaarvoice’s West Coast office; Peco is

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Puppet and Chef do only half the job

Our first guest post on theagileadmin is by Schlomo Schapiro, Systems Architect and Open Source Evangelist at ImmobilienScout24. I met Schlomo and his colleagues at DevOpsDays and they piqued my interest with their YADT deployment tool they’ve open sourced.  Welcome,

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Want To Write For The Agile Admin?

At Velocity and DevOpsDays this week I had a couple people ask about contributing articles to the blog – yes, we’d love to have anyone write on cloud, DevOps, etc. Many folks don’t want to maintain a whole blog themselves

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