DevOps Culture Culture is a funny thing and it influences our lives quietly and constantly. It distinguishes us, binds us together, and gives us a sense of identity. We see couples develop their own cultures. Families have them. Towns, companies and industries all adopt or create cultures. Speaking of culture, I’ve never met a group […]
Read MoreThanks to our Community
This is a week for giving thanks, for recognizing the people, places, and opportunities that bring us happiness and help us achieve success. At Chef, we’re reflecting on what’s most important to us — our community — all of you, our employees, partners, customers, and practitioners who make all that we do at Chef possible. […]
Read MoreChef at The Incredible Automation Day (TIAD) in Paris
Jessica DeVita and I recently had the pleasure of speaking at The Incredible Automation Day in Paris, France. TIAD has themes around learning to learn, experimentation, cloud, IoT, and de-automating ourselves. That last one, de-automating ourselves, was particularly intriguing to me. That concept can be taken several ways. To me, it sparked ideas around how we–the royal […]
Read MoreChef at DevOpsDays Ohio
The Event Chef was a returning sponsor of DevOpsDays Ohio. This year, the event was held at Shadowbox Live in Columbus on October 31 and November 1. We look forward to continually supporting the DevOps community in coming together to discuss all the things DevOps. Our VP of Community Development, Nathen Harvey, and myself were each invited to speak […]
Read MoreCultivating a DevOps Community: Take Part in ChefConf 2017
Chef is a company rooted in open source, so community matters a great deal to us. As DevOps goes mainstream, it’s important to ensure we building a strong, inclusive, and diverse community. Just as DevOps is about breaking down silos between teams, we need to break down the silos between companies to truly see its […]
Read MoreThe Future of DevOps with our CTO Adam Jacob
Software is today’s competitive currency in every industry. And the most effective software delivery requires velocity and scale. DevOps is a working philosophy that helps companies change their culture and technology to drive performance in today’s digital economy. DevOps is reinventing how we run our businesses. But what does the future hold? Our co-founder and […]
Read MoreChef Wins Tech Impact Award from Seattle Business Magazine
Seattle is now a technology epicenter — the growth of tech in Seattle brought roughly nine new jobs and seven new people every hour in 2015. You can see it in the cranes peppered throughout the city and you can feel it as a renewed energy is bringing the Pacific Northwest tech community to life. […]
Read MoreALDO – Agile Lean DevOps Outcomes
It’s no secret that DevOps is taking the enterprise by storm. In a recent RightScale survey, more than 80 percent of the enterprise and 70 percent of SMBs are adopting DevOps. At its core, DevOps is about building and delivering quality software at scale. But exactly how you go about doing that is going to […]
Read MoreNo, I won’t tell you what DevOps is. Tell me what you want to achieve instead.
Our friends at Data Economy just launched their new site, dedicated to covering the world’s most critical IT infrastructure issues, from cloud to data centers, and how they impact our global economy. To accomplish this mission, Data Economy will be publishing daily news, analysis, opinion and leadership insight from all angles of the IT business. […]
Read MoreBreaking Technology Silos at the NFL with Chef
Today kicks off the 97th season of the National Football League (NFL). In that spirit, we’d like to give a shout out to our friend Sean Walberg who works on the infrastructure team there. At this year’s ChefConf, Sean told the story of breaking technology silos at the NFL with Chef. In the recording below, you’ll hear Sean talk about how they were able transform […]
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