DevOps Demystified – An introduction to the ideas that are driving DevOps

Ben Rockwood is Joyent’s Director of Systems Engineering. Ben will speak about adopting the new philosophy of DevOps. It is about more than what tools you use, its about people first, process second, and then and only then tools. In this talk we’ll discuss the heart of DevOps, deconstruct culture, examine the fields of study… Continue reading DevOps Demystified – An introduction to the ideas that are driving DevOps

SmartOS Operations – Ben Rockwood at illumos Day

On illumos Day http://zfsday.com/about-illumos-day/, Joyent’s own Ben Rockwood http://cuddletech.com/blog/ gave us an in-depth look at the tools and techniques he uses to manage Joyent’s public cloud http://joyent.com/ on SmartOS http://smartos.org/, covering everything from monitoring to configuration management and troubleshooting. Here’s video of the complete talk: 55 minutes of deep devops goodness, packed full of knowledge… Continue reading SmartOS Operations – Ben Rockwood at illumos Day

Ben Rockwood & Deirdré Straughan: A Conversation at LISA ’09

A conversation about LISA, conferences in general, open source communities, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Sun culture, Sun personalities, the value of video, social media, the old days on CompuServe, supporting customers online, why video instead of text blogs, measuring online impact, Facebook, Twitter, bit.ly, the next big thing in social media, technical education… You might also like:… Continue reading Ben Rockwood & Deirdré Straughan: A Conversation at LISA ’09