Fubaredness Is Contagious

What do you do when you come across a piece of open source software that you’d like to try? You could download its source code tarball, extract the files, build and install it following the rules and conventions for a given programming language (./configure && make && make install, ruby setup.rb build, python setup.py install, [...]

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Last month AWS released Reduced Redundancy Storage feature of S3. There were several aspects of this announcement that appeal to different people, but I especially appreciated one part – S3 now offers a choice of less availability for a lower price.
Availability of your system, just as any other part of your [...]

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With great interest I read a recent post by Chris Hoff on devops disconnect (make sure to read the comments too).
Devops as a way to promote “collaborative and communicative culture” (see John Allspaw’s comment) – “devops the culture” henceforth – was born out of frustration on both sides of the house (dev and ops) when [...]

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If you are in IT, you probably noticed that most of the industry’s technical buzz lately has been centered around one of three huge areas – cloud computing, nosql and devops. Unlike Web 2.0 or Social Web, which are about content generation and content consumption models on the Internet, these three are actually about how [...]

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