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Mitch Pronschinske10/27/11
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Sysadmin Culture Needs Innovation: ITIL's Are Not The Answer

When a developer searches for solutions to an issue, they search for people who have dealt with a similar situation.  This search usually results in finding multiple blogs on a problem with competing philosophies that help give a multi-faceted view of the...

Mitch Pronschinske10/26/11
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The Firefox 7 Sync Meltdown: An Interesting Postmortem

You may have noticed major performance issues with Firefox Sync over the last few days if you use the feature.  The Mozilla Service Operations have written up a very comprehensive and honest postmortem, just as you would expect from an open source,...

Mitch Pronschinske10/26/11
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Will Sysadmins Automate Themselves Out of a Job? Did C put Assembly Writers out of a Job?

Sysadmins commonly ask questions like "will documentation or automation of my tasks put me out of a job?"  Tom Limoncelli, better known as the 'Everything Sysadmin' says, "Neither could be further from the truth." 

Mitch Pronschinske10/25/11
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HP Gives DevOps Tips

There are a couple of useful nuggets of advice for implementing DevOps philosophies in a new post on HP's blog.  While many of the points have been mentioned before, it's important to note a few practical tips they gave for operations and developers.  For...

Mitch Pronschinske10/25/11
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Chef Adds More Cookbooks for Windows

Today Opscode announced new Chef cookbooks for integration with server instances running Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), Microsoft SQL Server and PowerShell.

Mitch Pronschinske10/25/11
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Video: "Super Fresh Code" - The Next Step in Continuous Delivery

Israel Gat of Cutter Consortium speaks with DZone on his two sessions at Agile 2011, one of which is about his new methodology for taking DevOps and Continuous...

Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
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Finding Out the Salary Averages for Application Release Professionals

I found an interesting survey by Nolio that is aimed at "Application Release Professionals".  The survey is ending in one week and Nolio claims that by participating, these types of professionals will find out whether or not they're being...

Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
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New Puppet Release Supports Running Agents in Windows

Good news for Puppet users!  The recent 2.7.6 update now gives you support for running puppet agents in Windows for some important resource types.  Specifically these ones:fileusergroupscheduled_task (new type; not cron)package (MSI)serviceexechost

Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
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Camp DevOps Roundup

Just one week after the DevOps Days event in Goteborg, Germany there's already reactions coming out of another DevOps conference that happened this past weekend in Chicago, IL.  This was the Camp DevOps conference, which featured a strong speaker list...

Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
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How-To install Tomcat 7 and Solr on Centos 5.5

In this how-to we are presenting the steps you have to follow in order to install Tomcat 7 and Solr on a Centos 5.5 machine.  This tutorial was originally posted on TechSpry.com and the author is Gerasimos Athanasopoulos.

Mitch Pronschinske10/21/11
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Devs Get Rewarded for Finishing on Time, but Ops Get Punished if Your Code Leads to Outages

A companion post by Josh Duncan summarizes a session at DevOps Days by Jesse Robbins, the CEO of Opscode (they make 'Chef' if you don't know).  The session, which has an amazing title: , is posted below for you to view in its entirety, but I'll point out a...

Mitch Pronschinske10/21/11
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What Does Today's SysAdmin Actually Do?

A lot of great ideas come out of twitter conversations, and one tweet inspired 'ahiro' to make an evolving article on Esotericsystems Blog that explains what sysadmins do, starting from square one.  He's looking for plenty of feedback so go ahead and give...

Mitch Pronschinske10/20/11
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Exadel

Exadel is a software development tooling firm that produces multiple open source and commercial solutions for mobile development, financial services, and JSF. Short Description:  ...

Mitch Pronschinske10/20/11
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Versant

Versant Corporation is a database management solution vendor with products that include the Versant Object Database, FastObjects, and the open source "db4o." Short Description:  ...

Mitch Pronschinske10/20/11
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Vaadin

Vaadin is a software company and also a Java framework that allows developers to build modern web applications with a Swing-like, desktop development process. Short Description:  ...