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…
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…
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…
Austin is such a great place to be a techie. The Austin Cloud User Group (I help run it) meets every third Tuesday evening, and we’ve ben having 50+ people come in to check out some awesome stuff. Next meeting…
Fellow Agile Admin, James Wickett, just wrote an article for Control Engineering about cloud security. Cloud security is kinda funny, it’s the biggest FUD attractor and “concern” of folks who don’t really know how their on premise security works either. …
As a follow-on to Why Your Monitoring Is Lying To You. How is it that you can have an application go through a whole test phase, with two-day-long load tests, and have surprising errors when you go to production? Well,…
We have had some interesting internal discussions lately about application reliability. It’s probably not a surprise to many of you that the cloud is unreliable, on a small scale that is. Sure, on the large scale you use the cloud…
Our good friend Damon Edwards from dev2ops came by our Austin office and recorded a video of Peco and I explaining how we do what we do! Peco never blogs, so this is a rare opportunity to hear him talk…
My recent post on how sick I am of people being confused by the basic concept of cloud computing quickly brought out the comments on “what cloud is” and “what cloud is not.” And the truth is, it’s a little…
Hey all, sorry it’s been quiet around here – Peco and I took our families on vacation to Bulgaria! Plus, we’ve been busy in the run-up to our company convention, NIWeek. I imagine most of the Web type folks out…
