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24 August 2011 ~ Comments Off

Using Veewee

With @dancarley and @patrickebois just discussing the origin of the name of Veewee I figured I still had that piece of documentation I wrote up for myselve flying around …
So with no other reason than having my docs mirrored on the internet .
gem…

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21 August 2011 ~ Comments Off

Devops for Drupal, the survey,

Devops is gaining momentum, the idea that developers and operations should work much closer together , the idea that one should automate as much as possible in both their infrastructure and their release process brings along a lot of questions, ideas …

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14 August 2011 ~ Comments Off

Social networks for servers

A while ago Techcrunch profiled a company called Nodeable who closed 2 mil funding. They bill themselves as a social network for servers and have some cartoon and a beta invite box on their site but no actual usable information. I signed up but never heard from them. So I’ve not seen what they’re doing [...]

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29 July 2011 ~ Comments Off

Rich data on the CLI

I’ve often wondered how things will change in a world where everything is a REST API and how relevant our Unix CLI tool chain will be in the long run. I’ve known we needed CLI ways to interact with data – like JSON data – and have given this a lot of thought. MS Powershell [...]

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24 July 2011 ~ Comments Off

Devops Down Under 2011 Open Space – Kanban in Operations

Slides from my open space talk at Devops Down Under 2011Kanban in operations
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20 July 2011 ~ Comments Off

Kanban in Operations – Virtual Card Wall

(Cross posted on realestate.com.au Tech Blog)Three months ago I joined the Site Operations team at realestate.com.au and I was pleased to see that the team were using a card wall for work.Although the physical card wall proved to be a great p…

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17 July 2011 ~ Comments Off

Drupal and Configuration Mgmt, we’re getting there …

For those who haven’t noticed yet .. I`m into devops .. I`m also a little bit into Drupal, (blame my last name..) , so one of the frustrations I’ve been having with Drupal (an much other software) is the automation of deployment and upgrades of Drup…

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13 July 2011 ~ Comments Off

DevOps Gurgaon Meetup : Some High octane gyan

DevOps Gurgaon Meetup : Some High octane gyan

With the clock striking 6 P.M. on the 12th of July,  few geeks from MakeMyTrip were all set to brainstorm with some other fellow geeks from the DevOps community, for the first time in the Northern regio…

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11 July 2011 ~ Comments Off

DevOps Gurgaon Meetup

DevOps Gurgaon Meetup
Time  Tuesday, July 12 2011 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location :
MakeMyTrip Office – Gurgaon

103 Udyog Vihar Phase I, Gurgaon – 122016, Haryana, India
Gurgaon, India

Come to DevOps Gurgaon Meetup to:-
- hang aroun…

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03 July 2011 ~ Comments Off

Real time Puppet events and network wide callbacks

I’ve wanted to be notified the moment Puppet changes a resource for ages, I’ve often been told this cannot be done without monkey patching nasty Puppet internals. Those following me on Twitter have no doubt noticed my tweets complaining about the complexities in getting this done. I’ve now managed to get this done so am [...]

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