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DevOps Culture Hacks | DevOps.com: “A turning point for Jesse in terms of moving from an obstacle in the way of change to someone that really knew how to add value with ops practice stemmed from a battle he got into with the ‘VP of Awesome’ at Amazon. This was the nickname of this particular [...]

Unqualified Reservations: What’s wrong with CS research: “So here’s the first thing that’s wrong with CS research: there’s no such thing as CS research. First, there is no such thing as ‘computer science.’ Except for a few performance tests and the occasional usability study, nothing any CS researcher does has anything to do with the [...]

Hacker News | That was one of the things that really surprised me about the real world: that b…: Nostrademons writes: “That was one of the things that really surprised me about the real world: that big advancement only comes from big lateral jumps. Different companies, different projects, different markets, or different customers. There’s this [...]

The Blog of Ben Rockwood: When I first came in contact with the ‘Devops’ movement I thought it was about better systems administration, a maturing of the craft. It was, I thought, more about Ops and less about dev. Dev had their day in the sun with Agile… now sysadmins were getting theirs. Remember, if [...]

Real Software Engineering – Glenn Vanderburg – Lone Star Ruby Conference 2010: Software engineering as it’s taught in universities simply doesn’t work. It doesn’t produce software systems of high quality, and it doesn’t produce them for low cost. Sometimes, even when practiced rigorously, it doesn’t produce systems at all. That’s odd, because in every other [...]

Boompa.com Launch Postmortem, Part 1: Research, Picking a Team, Office Space and Money || kuro5hin.org: “Who’s the better shot? Give them the gun. Ethan and I came up with the ‘Zombie Team’ test for figuring out whether or not someone is ready to work on an intense project, be it a start-up or otherwise. The [...]

What NoSQL Shouldn’t Do: “The idea was that we were ushering in a New Way To Compute Things.  Like all technologists who spend way too much time thinking about this stuff, we thought everyone would immediately see how smart we were, run out and buy one of the CEP based products, and join is in [...]

Where are the Rails infrastructure support firms?: “Five years ago, the typical Rails stack was just a couple of pieces: Apache/Mongrel, Rails, and MySQL. While Rails is remarkably similar to its original form even today, the stack around it is dramatically more diverse. We’re deploying to automated infrastructures, using NoSQL databases, messaging systems, queuing systems, [...]

Surge2010 final View more presentations from Christopher Brown. Some highlights: Dynamism Disintermediation: Developers can freely experiment. Isolation: Applications safely co-exist Utilization: Best use of expensive resources This is what you are paying for. Cost CapEx versus OpEx The Cloud is not “Cheaper” Do you have money, time, or experience? What are you willing to pay [...]

NoSQL Is for the Birds: Cloud «: “In most environments, the choice to use a relational store like MySQL or a document database like Riak or a column-oriented database like Cassandra is one of preference, legacy infrastructure, tooling and personnel. Without the same pressures and concerns that created the non-relational alternatives, an endless debate is [...]