Understanding DevOps – Part 5: Infrastructure as Code

Imagine you are a seasoned operations engineer (you know, neck beard and all). Over your career you have most certainly developed a toolkit of scripts that you can use, with minor changes, to perform all your regular tasks of provisioning and managing the plethora of environments you have seen and dealt with over the years….

Video presentation of my session on Mobile DevOps at MoDevEast 2012

I presented at the MoDevEast conference last month. The conference was a major success – over 400 attendees. It was followed by a hackathon (that my son and I won a prize at). My session was titled DevOps for Cross-platform Mobile Apps. The slides and original abstract were posted in my earlier blog post. The…

My 11 year old son and I win a Mobile App Hackathon!

My son is 11 years old and a sports fanatic! He writes a sports blog called SportsThrills, that is getting pretty popular. He is getting over a 100 pageviews on most days. I, being the geek I am, have been working with my son to get him interested in programming and App development. And I…

Slides from my session on Mobile DevOps at MoDevEast 2012

I presented this past Friday, November 30th, at the MoDevEast Conference. The Conference organized by Pete Erickson and his GoMoDev organization, was meeting of over 400 attendees from the Mobile Development community – Developers, UX/UI folk, Designers, Business leaders, entrepreneurs and Investors – all at one conference. The speakers were excellent and I will post…

Monetate’s 12 step program for continuous deployment

I had the opportunity recently to attend a DevOps talk by Jeff Horowitz of Monetate. He was followed that night by a John Allspaw from Etsy. I will write about that talk in a later post. I found Jeff’s talk very interesting. His talk was titled ‘DevOps in a Cloud of Failure’. The essence of his…