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Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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Remote Site Editing and Local Syncing with WebMatrix 2

Check out the best new features of WebMatrix 2 Beta. URL: http://css.dzone.com/articles/staying-date-remote-site?mz=30309-phpwindows Large Thumbnail: ...

Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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How HuffPost Increased Engagement by 14%

HuffPost created an immersive, app-like web experience with new Pinned Site features URL: http://css.dzone.com/articles/case-study-huffington-post?mz=46483-html5 Large...

Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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Puppet Labs Gets $8.5M to Achieve DevOps Dominance

Today Puppet Labs revealed that it has received $8.5 million from Google Ventures, VMware, and Cisco—three companies that are dominating various facets of the tech industry. With the unprecedented injection of $8.5M in Series C funding, Puppet Labs now...

Mitch Pronschinske11/28/11
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Why we chose Chef over Puppet at CustomInk

Not unlike most technology choices, the choice of which configuration management tool to use for managing your infrastructure as code is sure to spark debate among opinionated technologists. There are certainly a number of choices available all of ...

Mitch Pronschinske11/27/11
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Scaling SQL and NoSQL Databases in the Cloud

Scaling an application in the cloud often hits the most common bottleneck – the database tier. Not only is database performance the number one cause of poor application performance, but also the issue is magnified in cloud environments where I/O and...

Mitch Pronschinske11/25/11
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Everything I learned about CI , I learned from System Administration

Abstract Julian Simpson: Before I donned my secret identity as The Build Doctor, I was a average Solaris administrator (okay, I spent too much time playing with log analysis and too little doing storage, but them's the breaks). After discovering the joys...

Mitch Pronschinske11/22/11
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DevOps Guru Ben Rockwell Interview

Matt Simmons, aka the Standalone Sysadmin, recently caught up with DevOps practicioner Ben Rockwell who writes at Cuddletech.So what did Ben Rockwell cite as some philosophical tendencies behind DevOps? Agile and Lean for starters. Along with...

Mitch Pronschinske11/20/11
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Small IT Environments Should Practice Configuration Management Too

Sure, configuration management systems are a must in large IT environments, but what about small environments? Do we really need them?Yes, according to the SysAdmin blogger cwebber.

Mitch Pronschinske11/20/11
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A Pennyworth Tutorial for the DevOps-minded

A new tutorial for Pennyworth has arrived. For those of you who haven't heard of this obscure tool from the DevOps community, it's a continuous packager that is built around Chef, Jenkins, and the "effing package manger".

Mitch Pronschinske11/17/11
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USA: Computer Professionals Update Act

A bill is currently making its way through the United States Senate that effectively eliminates overtime pay for IT professionals. Matt Simmons, aka. the Standalone SysAdmin, is trying to gather information on this issue and we've republished his article...

Mitch Pronschinske11/15/11
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NoSQL Zone - The Sequel to SQL

Isn't it about time you had a place where you could go to get fresh news and articles focused solely on NoSQL technology everyday?Other sites may cover just one facet, or write one post every 3 weeks, but DZone's new NoSQL Zone has its hand on the pulse of...

Mitch Pronschinske11/15/11
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ESX Plugin for Chef's Knife Tool

A major need has been filled in the last few weeks with the release of an unofficial, community-built VMware ESX(i) plugin for Opscode Knife. Knife in an open source command-line tool that comes with Chef and is used to access its server API and...

Mitch Pronschinske11/14/11
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DevOps Tweets of the Week - 11/14

Always entertaining are the insightful or agitated comments from developers and sysadmins on twitter. The DevOps community has quite a strong twitter presence where plenty of people sound off on what's got them angry or excited. Here are some of the best...

Mitch Pronschinske11/13/11
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Enabling Elastic Virtual DataCenters in vCloud Director - a Simple Configuration

Elastic Virtual Data Centers are a pretty useful feature in vCloud, and Dave Hill recently wrote a quick how-to for users who want to get up and running without reading a lot of documentation. Apparently he couldn't find this simple configuration anywhere:

Mitch Pronschinske11/12/11
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Case Study Video: Puppet at Constant Contact

Constant Contact's use of Puppet has evolved from being an operations tool for system configuration management to playing a central role in our software...