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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Naturally, Ops is the Predator and Dev is Ahnuld. We Ops folks are individually fearsome and have cool technology. But the Devs have the numbers on us, and despite speaking somewhat incoherently, win in the end.
There’s a discussion on the devops Google group about how people are increasingly defining DevOps as “chef and/or puppet users” and that all DevOps is, is using one of these tools. This is both incorrect and ignorant. Chef and puppet…
The DevOps space has been aglow with discussion about monitoring. Monitoring, much like pimping, is not easy. Everyone does it, but few do it well. Luckily, here on the agile admin we are known for keeping our pimp hands strong,…
