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Aaron Nichols05/06/13
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DevopsDays 2013 - We Are Avoiding Culture, Why?

I just got back from Devops Days Austin. It was a really good conference. I think I enjoyed the speakers and Open Spaces at this event more than I did at Devops Days Mountain View last year. Huge props to the organizers and speakers for putting together such a great set of topics.

Mike Hadlow05/06/13
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The Benefits of a Reverse Proxy

A reverse proxy is server component that sits between the internet and your web servers. It accepts HTTP requests, provides various services, and forwards the requests to one or many servers.

Eric Gregory05/05/13
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HTTP Caching 101

Sebastien Lambla from Caffeine IT explores the basics of HTTP caching.

Kin Lane05/05/13
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A Civic Hacker Corps

I've always been told, "If You Don't Vote, You Can't Whine." This is a statement I've heard from hundreds of American citizens that I've encountered throughout my life, across every region of this great country. While I agree with the intent of this statement, I have to declare that it isn't enough!

Eric Gregory05/05/13
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How Chef Enables Prezi's DevOps Culture

This OpsCode talk from Zsolt Dollenstein explores how major web presentation site Prezi uses Chef to cultivate a DevOps culture.

Eric Gregory05/04/13
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I Hear You Like Pull Requests

Konstantin Haase delves into adding automatic Pull Request testing to Travis CI, exploring why pull requests are so powerful.

Gary Sieling05/03/13
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Case Study: 10x File Copy Performance with Robocopy

This case study examines the performance of Robocopy duplicating approximately 2.5-3 million documents at 10x speed, with the final copy taking approximately 24 hours.

Eric Gregory05/03/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 3)

Today: New Java 8 features, obsolete tech skills, how open data is transforming global agriculture, Wikipedia's switch to MariaDB, and much more. Plus, our entries for the Mars haiku challenge.

Madhuka Udantha05/02/13
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Merging a Pull Request in GitHub

Often a pull request cannot be merged online due to conflicts. If there's no conflict, it is easy for you to do merging, even from the web client, with one click.

René Pickhardt05/02/13
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Web Science Education and a Web Science MOOC

The slides of my talk in the web science education workshop can be found here. The talk was about two things...

Paul Reed05/02/13
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The Ship Show: ChefConf 2013 Revue

It’s that time of year again where chefs (and sous-chefs!) come together to talk all-things Chef! This year’s ChefConf took place last week in San Francisco, and the crew of the Ship Show attended to experience it all first hand.

Kin Lane05/02/13
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Reminder of Why Data Portability Should Be Default: Bye Bye Posterous

I was just checking the blog feed of an API that I monitor. It came up in my alert dashboard as a feed that wasn't pulling. I clicked on the link to test, and...

Peter Giacomo L...05/02/13
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Instrumenting Ruby on Rails with TraceView in Under 10 Minutes

Things are moving fast for the Ruby language instrumentation in TraceView. We already support tracing of memcache-client, memcached, dalli, mongo, moped, mongoid, mongomapper, cassandra, ActiveRecord (postgres, mysql, mysql2) plus more. Most recently we added support for Rack and Resque tracing.

Mark Needham05/01/13
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Puppet: Package Versions – To pin or not to pin

Over the last year or so I’ve spent quite a bit of time working with puppet and one of the things that we had to decide when installing packages was whether or not to specify a particular version.

Lorna Mitchell05/01/13
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What Goes in Source Control?

Short answer: everything! But we need some good directory structures and source control configuration to make that a really practical answer, so this article is a quick outline of my usual advice for a good source control structure for a standard web project.