Blog Archive 2016 Free chapters of the infrastructure book Feb 16 2016 2015 Early access update available for the Infrastructure as Code book Jul 31 2015 Announcing Infrastructure as Code: the book Feb 25 2015 Recommended book - Lean Enterprise Jan 02 2015 2014 Infrastructure as Code - Automation is not enough Jan 01 2014 2013 Six weeks to provision a VM?!? #ChangeManagementFail Oct 16 2013 Extreme Change Management Oct 10 2013 Immutable server blikis Jun 17 2013 2012 CD Pipeline Implementation: Tracer Bullet (Trail Marker) Nov 26 2012 Quality plus simplicity - the sweet spot Oct 01 2012 Pat Kua’s new book on Agile Retrospectives Sep 02 2012 Organizing for Continuous Delivery - The reading list Jun 29 2012 Presenting a webinar about organizational structures and Continuous Delivery Jun 22 2012 The conflict between Continuous Delivery and traditional Agile Jan 22 2012 Iterations considered harmful Jan 04 2012 2011 Configuration Drift Dec 06 2011 Automated server management lifecycle Dec 05 2011 Breaking into automated infrastructure management Nov 08 2011 Successful software delivery in spite of Evil IT Sep 30 2011 Running multiple Tomcat instances on one server Sep 29 2011 Definition of an SLA Sep 06 2011 Monitor your development infrastructure as if it were business critical Jun 28 2011 The Build Monkey Antipattern Apr 11 2011 Maven: great idea, poor implementation (Part 3) Mar 24 2011 Maven: great idea, poor implementation (Part 2) Mar 24 2011 Maven: great idea, poor implementation (Part 1) Mar 24 2011 DeMarco describes Continuous Delivery (without using the term) Feb 20 2011 What makes a high performance development team? Jan 10 2011 2010 Ops people do it by hand Nov 09 2010 Debugging chef on Vagrant VM Nov 09 2010 Bring the Cloud on your desktop with Vagrant Nov 04 2010 Devops as a confidence game Oct 21 2010 Where is Atlassian going? Sep 30 2010 The state of devops, based on a tiny sample Sep 29 2010 In software, the assembly line is the application, not the development team Sep 26 2010 The next thing for me - ThoughtWorks! Sep 24 2010 ITIL can suck, but shouldn’t Sep 24 2010 Agile service management pattern: Deploy often Sep 24 2010 Who’s pushing devops onto whom? Sep 15 2010 My definition of devops Sep 08 2010 Spring Roo Jun 06 2010 SpringSource and the Cloud May 14 2010 Followup on Spring’s weight issues Apr 07 2010 Why cheap hosting services are so cheap Apr 06 2010 How to waste money on virtualization Apr 06 2010 2009 Duct tape and technical debt Oct 15 2009 The Engineer and Hacker Continuum Sep 24 2009 Is Spring still lightweight? Sep 23 2009 What happens to teams who let their Agile practices slip May 21 2009 One indicator of the growth of the Cloud model Mar 14 2009 Cloud Camp London Mar 13 2009 SOFEA, a flawed approach to a presentation architecture Feb 25 2009 Nice description of what Lean development is all about Feb 25 2009 2008 T-Mobile WiFi ripoff Sep 24 2008 2007 SAN Virtualization Dec 24 2007 Ready for disaster Oct 31 2007 The Virtual Buzz Apr 12 2007 The hidden pitfalls of server virtualization Apr 12 2007 What’s cool about virtualization? Apr 11 2007 2006 Whipping up a solid LDAP infranstructure Aug 26 2006 The cool kids talk about operations Jul 19 2006 Red Hat Network: How can they charge for less than you can get for free? Jun 13 2006 Configuring the Tomcat manager webapp May 31 2006 Configuration management with Puppet May 31 2006 cfengine alternatives May 24 2006 Piers Fawkes interviews Iain Tait May 18 2006 cfengine May 13 2006 Splitting your Tomcat installation for more power May 01 2006