other
« Previous EntriesOpscode Gives Small Development Firms Enterprise Level IT
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Awsome Cloud Meetup 02/09/2010 – Chef 101
Saturday, February 13th, 2010Awsome Cloud Meetup 02/09/2010 – Chef 101
View more presentations from John Willis.
AWSome Atlanta February 2010
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Last night’s AWSome Atlanta meeting was one of the best attended that I can remember. The main topic was the Chef configuration management tool for computer infrastructures. The crowd was a mix of the ‘usual suspects’ and quite a few new faces.
Read Chris Curtin’s blog for the rest of the story….
Chef Comes to Atlanta
Thursday, January 28th, 2010The 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 [...]
CloudCamp to Hold First OpsCamp for Cloud Operations and Development Professionals
Thursday, January 21st, 2010January 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 [...]
CloudCampHaiti
Monday, January 18th, 2010I 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. [...]
CloudCampHaiti
Thursday, January 14th, 2010About 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 [...]
The 2009 Cloudies Awards
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009This 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 [...]
BotchagalupeMarks for December 3rd – 11:05
Friday, December 4th, 2009These 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 [...]
BotchagalupeMarks for November 30th – 22:09
Friday, December 4th, 2009These 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 [...]
BotchagalupeMarks for November 23rd – 14:56
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009These 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 [...]
BotchagalupeMarks for November 20th – 15:32
Saturday, November 21st, 2009These 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 [...]
BotchagalupeMarks for November 19th – 12:20
Friday, November 20th, 2009These 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 [...]
BotchagalupeMarks for November 18th – 11:41
Thursday, November 19th, 2009These 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 [...]
BotchagalupeMarks for November 17th – 14:15
Thursday, November 19th, 2009These 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 [...]
BotchagalupeMarks for November 15th – 05:19
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009These 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 [...]
BotchagalupeMarks for November 13th – 11:23
Saturday, November 14th, 2009These 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 [...]
BotchagalupeMarks for November 13th – 03:21
Saturday, November 14th, 2009These 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 [...]
BotchagalupeMarks for November 12th – 14:23
Saturday, November 14th, 2009These 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 [...]
BotchagalupeMarks for November 7th – 21:20
Thursday, November 12th, 2009These are my links for November 7th through November 11th:
Bytepawn – Readings in Distributed Systems – Another good timeline
distributed systems primer :: snax – Great List for Big Data … How did we get here..
Ubuntu’s Koala food arrives on shelves • The Register – You can also run Eucalyptus atop Xen and KVM, and according [...]
