Does Automation Replace Humans?
By John | February 8, 2010
Somewhere in a land a long time ago, there was this steel factory in the heartland of Pennsylvania. In this steel factory there was a bulletin board on a factory floor room, and on the board were two large posters. The first poster was a reminder of the upcoming layoffs on Friday with procedures for filing paper work and such. The other poster was an announcement of the new IBM mainframe computer that was arriving that week. This new marvel of modern technology just happened to be arriving on that same Friday. The IBM poster encouraged employees to gather and witness this historic event, and that they did. So when Friday rolled around, the poor IBM’rs with their blue suites and dark ties were meet with harsh resentment. The factory floor workers harassed them unmercifully, and in some cases they were actually spat on. I take it you see the irony of the poor steel workers assumed correlation between the new computer and the layoffs. It’s easy to see now that the new “computers” had nothing to do with the layoff… Or is it?
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Opscamp Austin Roundup
By John | February 1, 2010
The inaugural Opscamp meeting went really well. About two years ago Mark Hinkle and I tried to run a barcamp called BarcampESM. There were only around 20 people at the event. We had a great time. The bottom line was that there really wasn’t as much interest in the topic of “Operations/Systems Administration” in 2007 via a barcamp. Two years later. . . BOOM, it is a “Cloudy” world and 130 people register for a Saturday meetup on the same subject. The idea of changing our small barcamp style idea into a larger more impactful event was due in part to the help of the “CloudCamp”, Dave Nielsen. Dave was instrumental in helping us get this first CloudCamp (opscamp) vertical off the ground.
All told, we wound up with around 95 attendees. Zenoss was our platinum sponsor providing the venue, breakfast, lunch and non-alcoholic drinks. Rackspace and Reductive Labs were the Gold sponsors and Spiceworks, Opscode, and Bitnami were all Silver sponsors. Opscamp Austin seemed to have a really good mix of vendors and non-vendors enabling the sessions to have a good mix. Some other vendors that were in attendance were DTO Solutions, Groundworks Open Source and Cloudswitch. We were also fortunate to have some of the big guns like IBM and Dell, and let’s not forget our favorite analyst, Michael Cote from Redmonk (also a media Sponsor). Here is a link to the Redmonk “IT Management Guys” podcast we did at the after hours free drinks party.
The conference really started to kick into gear once the un-panel started. Monitoring seemed, as it usually does, to dominate the discussion. However, it set the stage nicely for the rest of the conference. In classic “CloudCamp” style we setup the open session agenda for the rest of the day based out of two themes that evolved from the un-panel, Configuration Management and Monitoring. To make it sound cooler, we called the themes Service Delivery and Service Assurance.
On the service delivery side we talked about how to identify services and workloads. Some of the participants described their process of trying to take workloads and define them into ensembles. We even started a little bit of an “Agile Operations” discussion. Later in the afternoon we had an operations tool chain session that seemed to get a little heated; however, no harm, no foul. This reminds me of a great quote “Strong opinions loosely held.”
Over on the service assurance side, we had some great discussions about monitoring with plenty of experts from Zenoss, Groundwork, and IBM. One of the early sessions focused on a discussion about “agents” for monitoring. This lead into the age old agentless vs. agent based discussion. There was also a fair amount of non-open source enterprise people to contribute from the IBM Tivoli, IBM Micromuse, and BMC Patrol perspectives.
I saw a lot of video cameras and flips floating around, so I am sure there will be a lot of Youtube and Blip.tv videos showing up in the next few weeks. Opscamp will try to coordinate a summary links page for all the blogs, podcasts, and videos that surface up.
Opscamp Austin was sort of like a “Beta” for future Opscamps. We had a few bugs in the beginning transitioning from the lighting talks to unpanel to open sessions. However, we collected some positive feedback on how to make this a little smother for the next time. I think Opscamp Austin proved that this new CloudCamp vertical called Opscamp is ready for GA. We look forward to seeing you in a city near you.
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Chef Comes to Atlanta
By John | January 28, 2010
The week of February 8th Opscode will be having some fun in Atlanta. Josh Timberman @jtimberman, one of the Opscode senior engineers, will be in Atalanta do some work with Chef. Here are some of the highlights.
Chef “Bootcamp Workshop” Sprint
Ignition Alley, Monday February 8th – 10th (9am to 5pm)
If you are interested in learning more about the Chef open source project feel free to join us in defining and developing the Chef bootcamp training material.
Awsome Atlanta Cloud Computing Group
Georgia Tech ATDC , Tuesday February 8th ( 7pm to 9pm)
Configuration Management and Provisioning in the Cloud using Chef
Ignition Alley “Lunch and Learn”
Ignition Alley, Monday February 10th (11:39am to 12:30pm)
Configuration Management and Provisioning in te Cloud using Chef
Atlanta Ruby User’s Group
Georgia Tech ATDC , Tuesday February 10th ( 7pm to 9pm)
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CloudCamp to Hold First OpsCamp for Cloud Operations and Development Professionals
By John | January 21, 2010
January 19th, 2010 – (Austin, TX) – CloudCamp, an organizer of local events to exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related technologies, today announced the first OpsCamp for systems management and cloud development professionals. OpsCamp is an event aimed at bringing together IT professionals who are interested in the evolution of systems management and application deployment as it bridges physical and virtual infrastructure and especially cloud computing technologies. The event will be a participant driven unconference style event made popular by events like BarCamp, Bloggercon and Mashup Camp.
Event Details
The event will be held in an unconference format starting with an Unpanel discussion about cloud computing followed by a self-organizing conference format where topics are proposed and then voted on by the attendees.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Spider House Cafe
2908 Fruth St.
Austin, TX 78705
While attendance is free, RSVP is required: http://www.opscamp.org/austin
Event Sponsors
This free event is being made possible by the generous donations from the following sponsors:
• Bitnami - Cloud Deployable Software Stacks
• Reductive Labs - Open Source Data Center Automation
• Zenoss - Unlegacy IT Management Emphasizing Virtualization and Cloud Management
Supporting Quotes
Dave Nielsen, co-Founder CloudCamp
“With rapid change occurring in IT operations, we realized that a place is needed where operations personnel and sysadmins can meet to share their experiences, challenges and solutions. OpsCamp is organized as an unconference which encourages the open exchange of ideas around next generation technologies and strategies for IT Operations. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.”
John M. Willis, Author of Cloud Computing and Systems Management Blog, co-hostIT Management Podcast and the Cloud Cafe
“While the cloud has lowered the barrier to entry for businesses to own a data center; it has not decreased the complexity of managing complex applications and data center operations. OpsCamp is about exploring the opportunity to intersect ideas like agile development, continuous deployment, and data center operations to promote the rise of a new movement that breaks down the traditional walls between development and operations (i.e., DevOps).”
Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, Zenoss
“Operations personnel and sysadmins are becoming programmers because of the virtualization/cloud and automation trend where everything is managed through an API. The line between application developers and IT operations is becoming blurred. Many of the principles that apply to Agile application development translate to operations. So if you are a developer with a interest for system administration, or a systems administrator interested in development, OpsCamp is the place to be.”
Michael Coté, Analyst at Redmonk, co-host IT Management Podcast
“After many years of steady pace in the IT world, the tools and technologies used to do the daily work of operations are rapidly changing. Thanks to virtualization and cloud computing moving mainstream, new, hopefully better ways to deliver IT are emerging. These things aren’t always fully baked yet, but the thought-leaders and early adopters are quickly crystallizing. OpsCamp is an exciting chance to get involved in these conversations whether you want to start directing this shift in operations, figure out if it works for you, or just check it out. And, not only is it free, it’s in a damn fine spot: Austin.”
Luke Kanies, Founder of Puppet and Reductive Labs
“OpsCamp is a great opportunity to share expertise and experience in managing operations in the cloud. The unconference setting provides a perfect mix between learning and sharing, and the intimate setting guarantees everyone gets something out of it.”
Erica Brescia, CEO, BitRock and Bitnami Project Lead
“In rapidly evolving disciplines such as how to deploy and manage software in the cloud, the one-way dialogue found at typical conferences just doesn’t cut it. OpsCamp will give early adopters and innovators the opportunity to share best practices and guide the development of the next generation of cloud operations tools and services.”
About CloudCamp
CloudCamp is an unconference where early adapters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged you to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate. For more information about future CloudCamp events visit http://www.cloudcamp.org/schedule.
About Zenoss
Zenoss is a leading commercial open source provider of Unlegacy IT enterprise management products. Zenoss Enterprise is a single model-based product that enables organizations to seamlessly manage physical, virtual and cloud based infrastructure with unprecedented power, agility and value. Leveraging a commercial open source model, Zenoss products monitor over one million network and server devices daily and are used in over 25,000 organizations in 180 countries around the world. Commercial customers include leading companies such as Rackspace, VMware, WebMD, LinkedIn, Tyco Electronics, Carlson, Motorola and Deutsche Bank. To learn more about Zenoss’ award-winning IT operations management software, visit http://www.zenoss.com.
About Reductive Labs
Reductive Labs provides a comprehensive set of enterprise-class software, support and services directly from the developers of the Puppet project. With a global team of trained and experienced experts, Reductive Labs can deliver training, consulting, and technical support services to help customers deploy, develop and maintain their infrastructure. Customers get access to features, tools and technical support not otherwise available. For a single annual fee, a Reductive Labs subscription offers a unique combination of support, sophisticated management tools, and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), making it a must-have for enterprise-level deployments and mission-critical applications. For more information about Puppet and Reductive labs visit ReductiveLabs.com
Bitnami
BitNami.org simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively, virtually and in the cloud. Each BitNami Stack contains an application that is fully integrated with all of the software it requires to run. BitNami Stacks are available free of charge as native installers, virtual machine images and cloud templates, so they can easily be deployed in any environment. Popular BitNami-packaged applications include Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress, SugarCRM, Alfresco, Redmine, Subversion and many more. For a complete list, visit BitNami.org/Stacks.
For additional information please contact the conference organizers:
John M. Willis – john@opscode.com
Mark Hinkle – mrhinkle@zenoss.com
Damon Edwards – damon@dtosolutions.com
For sponsorship opportunities contact Dave Nielsen:
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CloudCampHaiti
By John | January 18, 2010
I would love to use this opportunity to inform you of something the “Cloudcamp.org” has setup. CloudCampHaiti is a virtual unconference we are running this Wednesday afternoon ( http://www.cloudcamp.org/haiti ). Our primary goal is to raise money for the Red Cross. One hundred percent of the proceeds will be going to the Haiti earthquake victims. However, we also have a theme “How The Cloud Can Help” . We want to see how cloud computing and expert resources can be used to help in disasters like this. Our registration process is simple, $25 to attend the virtual conference, $50 to be listed as a special donor, and $250 to have your company logo.
Cloudcamphaiti is going to be a great event. We are going to have some of the biggest names in cloud computing present and we will also have a panel session and open discussion based on the on the “How The Cloud Can Help” theme. This is a great opportunity to learn, participate and help.
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CloudCampHaiti
By johnwillis | January 14, 2010
About CloudCamp Haiti (virtual unconference):
CloudCamp Haiti is a virtual unconference held as a public webinar. CloudCamp-in-the-Cloud builds upon the popular CloudCamp format by providing a free and open place for the introduction and advancement of cloud computing. For this event, we are raising funds to donate to the aid effort in Haiti.
Using an online meeting format attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related technologies.
Please help us spread the word, twitter, facebook, IM, tell your neighbours and friends. Hashtag #CloudCampHaiti or copy and paste this post.
Registration: http://cloudcamp-haiti-2010.eventbrite.com/
Date/Time:
- Jan 20th 11:00am – 2:00pm Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Location:
- Online (GotoMeeting)
Get involved:
If you are interesting in getting involved as a presenter contact John Willis (john.willis AT zabovo.com) If you are interested in sponsoring contact Dave Nielsen (dave AT platformd.com).
Agenda:
11:00am – 11:30am – Sign in and registration (Main Room)
11:30am – 11:45am – Introductions & Overview (Main Room)
11:45am – 12:30pm – Lightning Talks (Main Room)
Lightning Talks – TBD
12:30pm – 1:00pm Unpanel Choosen by attendee’s of CloudCamp Haiti (Main Room)
1:00pm – 2:00pm Break Out Sessions – Round 1
1. Unconference Room #1: main gotomeeting room (TBD)
2. Unconference Room #2: 2nd gotomeeting room (TBD)
2:00pm – 2:30pm CloudCamp Haiti Wrap up (Back in “Main Room”)
Organizers:
- John Willis
- Reuven Cohen
- Dave Nielsen
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The 2009 Cloudies Awards
By John | December 23, 2009
This is the second year of the “Cloudies” award and still only one judge (me). However, there are things in the works to make the “Cloudies” a more official and non-tongue-n-cheek next year. I did solicit some tweets this year for awards. Please don’t be offended if you are not in this list. This list represents my radar and is somewhat of a goof. I am a one man show and not a global organization. If you don’t agree with me please post a comment and if you have a good argument I will create an updated post. Here goes:
Cloud Hero of 2009
Beaker Chris Hoff
I predicted this early in 2008 (see And the 2009 Cloudie Award Goes To…)
Most Influential Cloud Bloggers
randybias Randy Bias of Cloudscaling
Randy has done some fantastic blog posts this year on cloud computing. There are few people out there that can match his total understanding of infrastructure computing.
Love him or or not, his blog always has in depth coverage coverage of the latest announcements on cloud computing. It is one the first places I go to figure out the impact of something new in cloud computing.
Top IaaS
Sorry folks, no one even comes close to these guys on the IaaS.
Despite a few missteps here and there, these guys are the only folks on Amazon’s radar.
Top PaaS
Still the one-and-only on-ramp to the cloud (IaaS)…
I am sure there are a lot of other great PaaS’s out there; however the “Cloudies” is not a democracy. Every customer of these guys raves about their service.
Top SaaS
Blah, Blah, Blah
I guess you could call them the Amazon.com of SaaS.
Best Private Cloud Vendors
Running in Nasa, Eli Lilly and a few other places puts them in the lead at this point.
A close second to Eucalyptus. Backed by Canonical with Ubuntu server and KVM it makes for a great story…
Best Cloud Application Providers
They got clowns the the left and jokers to the right. RabbitMQ stuck in the middle with you.
They have a great story down at FedEx and Bob and Sam are some of the nicest guys you will ever meet.
Best Cloud Orchestration Tools in the Cloud
Zenoss is to Nagios as Chef is to Puppet. Oh yea I am an adviser for Opscode.
What can I say, Puppet is the Nagios of open source configuration management.
Best Monitoring Tools in the Clouds
Zenoss is the Zenoss of open source monitoring. They added some great cloud (Amazon) monitoring features this year.
The dirty little secret of cloud monitoring. Rightscale uses CollectD for monitoring.
Best Security Solutions for the Cloud
First is usually best. Plus you gotta luv the CohesiveFT dudes…
Best of the rest.
Best Cloud Builders
Elastic Server gets it done in 09.
Best Cloud New Comers
Very cool new PaaS.
CoudchDB as a Service.. Ya gotta luv it.
Best Open Source in the Clouds
This project is where Eucalyptus was about 1 year ago.
Best Languages used in the clouds
Ruby
Java
Biggest Cloud Disappointment in 2009
Congrats… Two years running.
Best Killer Apps in the Cloud
350k eFile’s in 22 hours all on AWS… Tough to beat these guys.
Zero touch movement of enterprise legacy application to Amazon EC2. Sounds like a winner to me.
Best Cloud Startup Success Stories
These guys are paving the road for the avg folk like me to do “Big” things with data.
Best New Cloudy Terms
“Not Only SQL?”
Give me an API or give me death.
Worst Cloud CTO
Best Cloud CTO
I am biased; however, I think Chef from Opscode is the most exciting thing to happen to “enterprise systems management” in many years. Adam and Jesse have assembled a freaking great team.
Best Cloud Analysts
Best Cloud Innovation in 2009
Best David vs. Goliath Cloud Vendor
Best Cloud Tweet
Best Cloud Arguments
New Awards in 2009
Best Cloud Presentations
Simon Wardley – Cloud Computing Why it Matters
Chris Hoff - The Frogs Who Desired a King: A Virtualization & Cloud Computing Fable
Rookie of the Year
Best Cloud Argument (Redemption)
George was right.. Austoscaling doesn’t matter.
Best Cloud Philosopher
Best Cloud Evangelists
Best Agile Infrastructure Dudes
Honorable Mention
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BotchagalupeMarks for December 3rd – 11:05
By John | December 4, 2009
These are my links for December 3rd from 11:05 to 16:34:
- IBM developerWorks : IBM Tivoli Monitoring – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.1 on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- measuring measures: Flightcaster Open-sources Crane – A big concern with the modern JVM languages like Scala and Clojure is the ability to scale out from the single JVM address space into distributed environments. Different approaches include a distributed JVM (terracotta), distributed actors (akka), message queues (AMQP/rabbitmq), or solutions for specific computational models, like hadoop.
- Sonoa’s Mobile App Accelerator Looks To Cut Load Times By 90% – The day you got your brand new iPhone 3GS, Palm Pre, or Motorola Droid, there’s a fair chance you thought your days of endless loading screens was behind you. After all, each of these comes equipped with a high-powered processor capable of running 3D games and multitasking. Yet the loading screens persist. Operating system shortcomings aside, one of the biggest culprits is actually out of your phone’s hands entirely: the fault lies with backend server calls, as the apps you’re using request data from online servers. Sonoa Systems, the company behind Apigee, thinks it has the answer. It has built a cloud based service designed to helps companies optimize the data being sent to their mobile apps. And it says it can make these load times up to ten times faster.
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BotchagalupeMarks for November 30th – 22:09
By John | December 4, 2009
These are my links for November 30th through December 3rd:
- Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features – All Things Distributed – Today a powerful new feature is available for our Amazon EC2 customers: the ability to boot their instances from Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store).
Customers like the simplicity of the AMI (Amazon Machine Image) model where they either choose a preconfigured AMI or upload their own AMI into Amazon S3. A wide variety of operating systems and software configurations is available for use. But customers have also asked us for more flexibility and control in the way that Amazon EC2 instances are booted such that they have finer grained control over for example what software configurations and data sets are available to the instance at boot time.
- Installation – Scalr Documentation – Package names and installation methods vary. Consult the OS-specific installation guide if provided. A list of available OS-specific guides can be found at OS Specific Installation Guides.
- Phurnace Recognized as a “Comprehensive Solution” in the Automation Space – Phurnace Deliver™, the company’s flagship product, provides comprehensive support for IT operations staff and developers during complex enterprise Java deployments to decrease errors, streamline deployments and avoid the downtime and outages that come with manual or script-based processes. The product also troubleshoots and identifies problems and then remediates immediately. The current user approach of paging through the console or building cumbersome scripts can be reduced or eliminated with Phurnace, therefore freeing up limited IT resources for more value-added tasks.
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BotchagalupeMarks for November 23rd – 14:56
By John | November 25, 2009
These are my links for November 23rd through November 24th:
- Google Partners with Canonical for Chrome OS – PC World – Some people may see Google's Chrome operating system as competing with existing Linux desktop distributions. Canonical, the company behind popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, isn't one of them. They're working with Google to make Chrome.
- Brin: Google’s OSes likely to converge | Webware – CNET – Many Google observers were puzzled when the company announced plans for Chrome OS in July, coming amid growing acceptance of the company's Android operating-system project as a smartphone and Netbook OS. After all, why design an open-source operating system with the goal of reinventing the personal computing experience when you're currently developing another open-source operating system with the goal of reinventing the mobile computing experience?
- Pragmatic Programming Techniques: NOSQL Patterns – Over the last couple years, we see an emerging data storage mechanism for storing large scale of data. These storage solution differs quite significantly with the RDBMS model and is also known as the NOSQL. Some of the key players include …
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BotchagalupeMarks for November 20th – 15:32
By John | November 21, 2009
These are my links for November 20th from 15:32 to 17:00:
- 8 Steps for Well-Grounded Cloud Computing – By now, many of you have been hearing all the grand talk about cloud computing: how it enables companies to get rid of their IT costs and instead pay by the drink for capabilities provided by an outside vendor—who assumes the worries about upgrades, bugs, versioning, provisioning and all that other nasty stuff.
- IBM Cloud Guru Erich Clementi Looks Back at IT History to Gauge Its Future – From 2003 through 2005, IBM veteran Erich Clementi helped lead the resurgence of the revamped IBM mainframe as general manager of the System z division. When obituaries were being written about the demise of the mainframe, Clementi and his team went off to rethink and redesign the old-fashioned Big Hunk computer. Now he's leading the all-encompassing cloud computing initiative.
- How to measure the impact of IT operations on your business (Part 1) – Blog – dev2ops – Solving Large Scale Web Operations and DevOps Problems – Walk into any web-based business and more likely than not you'll find all sorts of metrics that have been collected with varying levels of accuracy, consistency, and freshness. However, despite what appears to be a wealth of data, no one will seem to be all that happy with it.
- Partnership with Rackspace Cloud Computing – In less than two months, we’ve seen strong adoption of Scout’s simple cloud monitoring functionality. 1 of every 5 hosts monitored by Scout is in the cloud.
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BotchagalupeMarks for November 19th – 12:20
By John | November 20, 2009
These are my links for November 19th from 12:20 to 16:04:
- Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting | Writing Code that Scales – The web is huge, and it’s getting bigger every single day. If you’re writing a web scale application that will reach millions of end users, you may need to think carefully about how you write that application so that it will work properly under the demanding workloads the web can produce. Our computing hardware is getting progressively faster and cheaper.
- VIDEO: What is VMware vCloud Express? – VIDEO: What is VMware vCloud Express?: What is VMware vCloud Express and how can it help you?
- Computer ‘Glitch’ Grounds Air Traffic | Threat Level | Wired.com – An unspecified computer glitch is being cited as the cause for commercial flights being canceled or temporarily delayed on Thursday.
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BotchagalupeMarks for November 18th – 11:41
By John | November 19, 2009
These are my links for November 18th from 11:41 to 16:35:
- 6 Months In: Fully Automated Provisioning Revisited – Blog – dev2ops – Solving Large Scale Web Operations and DevOps Problems – It's been about six months since I co-authored the "Web Ops 2.0: Achieving Fully Automated Provisioning" whitepaper along with the good folks at Reductive Labs (the team behind Puppet). While the paper was built on a case study about a joint user of ControlTier and Puppet (and a joint client of my employer, DTO Solutions, and Reductive Labs), the broader goal was to start a discussion around the concept of fully automated provisioning.
- Agile Manifesto co-author encourages Agile Operations – Agile Operations – Ward Cunningham, one of the godfathers of the Agile Development movement and the co-author of the Agile Manifesto, is moving over into Agile Operations territory these days with an upcoming webinar, Agile IT: A Better Approach to Application Development, Deployment, and Management. In the precis, the presenter's ask "Can IT Operations benefit from agile practices as well?" Obviously we here at Agile Operations think so, but it will be interesting to see what exactly Cunningham's take on the idea is.
- Operations is a competitive advantage… (Secret Sauce for Startups!) – O’Reilly Radar – My lunchtime conversations at the Summit centered around Operations as a competitive advantage (and occasionally a "strategic weapon"). This advantage is the ability to consistently create and deploy reliable software to an unreliable platform that scales horizontally.
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BotchagalupeMarks for November 17th – 14:15
By John | November 19, 2009
These are my links for November 17th through November 18th:
- Linux and The Enterprise Cloud: A Canonical Gig – Earlier this week I was lucky enough to present to Canonical customers and prospects about what’s going on with the enterprise Cloud market. I was a little nervous because Simon Wardley was on the same agenda, and his cloud presentation is a masterpiece. Luckily he came after me though.
- Recipes for Automated installation of OS and beyond – Up until now, I've described the options to automate shell scripting, virtual machine creation and network provisioning. So now we can actually get started with automating the installation of the Operating System itself. This not surprisingly is were most sysadmins spent most of their time.
- Cloudonomics – Jolting Joe. A very smart dude…
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BotchagalupeMarks for November 15th – 05:19
By John | November 18, 2009
These are my links for November 15th through November 17th:
- zaitcev: Raising in rage against Eucalyptus in Fedora – Ouch!
- The gluttonous aardvark » Blog Archive » @botchagalupe, @krisbuytaert, me and the Kwak!! – I am a lucky chap.
I received this e-mail on Friday saying that “@botchagalupe is in town, feel like a beer together?”.
- NOSQL: scaling to size and scaling to complexity – Emil’s Neo Thoughts – About a week ago, following nosql east in Atlanta, Jonathan Ellis from the Cassandra project published a fantastic overview of the current NOSQL ecosystem. He analyzes 10 popular NOSQL databases along three axes: horizontal scalability, data model and internal persistence design. It's a great read.
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DevopsDays 09 Interview with Kris Buytaert
By johnwillis | November 15, 2009
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BotchagalupeMarks for November 13th – 11:23
By John | November 14, 2009
These are my links for November 13th from 11:23 to 12:21:
- Application Lifecycle in the Cloud – Thinking Out Cloud – Cloud computing is having a profound effect on the software application lifecycle.
- www.devco.net – As part of deploying MCollective + ActiveMQ instead of my old Spread based system I need to figure out a multi location setup, the documentation says I'd possible so I thought I better get down and figure it out.
In my case I will have per-country ActiveMQ's, I've had the same with Spread in the past and it's proven reliable enough for my needs, each ActiveMQ will carry 30 or so nodes.
- Announcing the Public Terabyte Dataset project « Elastic Web Mining | Bixolabs – This is a high quality crawl of top web sites, using AWS’s Elastic Map Reduce, Concurrent’s Cascading workflow API, and Bixolab’s elastic web mining platform.
- Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting | NoSQL Ecosystem – Unprecedented data volumes are driving businesses to look at alternatives to the traditional relational database technology that has served us well for over thirty years. Collectively, these alternatives have become known as “NoSQL databases.”
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BotchagalupeMarks for November 13th – 03:21
By John | November 14, 2009
These are my links for November 13th from 03:21 to 09:40:
- dev2ops: delivering application change – The non-functional requirements become late cycle "peek-a-boo" requirements when they aren't addressed early in development. Late cycle requirements violates continuous integration and agile development principles. The production tooling and requirements have to be accounted for in the development environment but most enterprises don't do that.
- Amazon Bids For Windows Developers On Eve Of Azure’s Launch – Plug Into The Cloud – InformationWeek – Four days before Microsoft launches its Azure cloud platform to developers at a conference in L.A., Amazon has come up with a .Net software development kit to help Windows developers produce code that runs in Amazon's EC2. It's probably just coincidence. But let's see what they're getting with AWS SDK for .Net.
- cloudmapreduce – Project Hosting on Google Code – Cloud MapReduce was developed at Accenture Technology Labs by Huan Liu and Dan Orban. It is a MapReduce implementation on top of the Amazon Cloud OS.
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BotchagalupeMarks for November 12th – 14:23
By John | November 14, 2009
These are my links for November 12th through November 13th:
- blog.reddit — what’s new on reddit: Moving to the cloud – Last week we also decommissioned the last of our physical servers. We are now operating our entire website "in the cloud" as the kids would say. Specifically, we are using Amazon Web Services. If all went well, you didn't notice a thing. If you want to, you can Ask me Anything about the move or our servers.
- Go2.me – Exhaustive Google Product List – Via Geva Perry
- Gartner: Cloud spending to skyrocket in 2009 | Platforms – InfoWorld – Gartner Smartner
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NoSQLEast 09 Keynote
By johnwillis | November 12, 2009
For more NOSQLEast Videos follow this link…
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