Today is Tuesday, November 6th, 2012. Election day in the United States. Last night, my local PBS station aired the Frontline episode The Choice, which is about the biographies of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney and how they found themselves at this point, running for election to be the President of the United States. The […]

Being one of the representatives of Opscode at Surge 2012, here are my (slightly belated) thoughts from having attended the conference. The list of sessions can be found here. The opening keynote was an analysts of Forrester who presented four general trends that he said made scalability and performance more important than ever. This talk was forgettable. It was […]

DevOps DevOps is not a role. It is not a title. Fundamentally DevOps is an idea and a way of behaving. It is the belief that development and operations are not domains that have a wall between them, but that development and operations work best when both sides share ideas and understand the concerns and […]