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DevOps Roundtable, London

Some of us had a bit of a chat about DevOps recently. Thanks to John and Damon for organising, and Betfair for lending us the lovely room. It’s definitely the nice part of Hammersmith. Link

Zabbix, narrated by Jon Topper

The London DevOps crew recently met up at The Guardian’s fabulous King’s Cross building to eat, drink and talk devops. The first talk of the evening was Jon Topper, sharing his experience with the Zabbix monitoring platform. I plan to investigate as I’d rather eat catfood than configure Nagios again. I’ll post the next talk [...]

DevOps is a good cause, but what about OpsOps?

A few recent blog posts have attempted to explain the Devops bloody revolution movement. I’m overdue to post one of my own. Lest we get carried away, let’s not just focus on the Developer < -> Systems Administrator axis. As Graham expounded on Friday night (and I paraphrase, for the Build Doctor had prescribed himself [...]

Devopsdays 2009

Every day, in every country in the developed world, I.T. fails us. People fume over failed bank transactions, travel bookings, and supermarket transactions. Most of the I.T industry seem be focussed on apportioning blame instead of resolving the problems. I blame Sun. I think that the split between Unix Systems Administrators and Developers Who Write [...]

Devops lightning talk

Chris argues for us all to get along ….

Scalecamp

I’m at ScaleCamp today. Will hopefully get some blog posts done today, and will be tweeting.

Authentication: the first victim of the dev-ops divide

In almost every IT project I’ve worked on, we wrote an authentication system for the application we were building. User passwords were stored in the application database (encrypted or not). I don’t think that’s good for the users. We should be asking people to remember fewer passwords, not more. (the exception to to this is [...]