Configuration Management Videos and Tutorials
It can be dispiriting to find that what seemed to be a well-designed system, that has been carefully implemented by a good agile team runs into problems as soon as it hits production, but such things do happen. Conversely how is it that gnarled old systems containing tangled code without …
Vagrant combined with Virtual box and a provisioning tool like chef or puppet fundamentally changes the way PHP software developers setup their development environments and develop their web applications. Once configured, vagrant allows developers to spin up a new environment in a couple of commands and allows each developer to …
John O’Duinn, Director of Release Engineering at Mozilla kicked off ICSE 2013 with his keynote – Release Engineering as a Force Multiplier. The build and release process used to be a pain point at Mozilla, but now makes the company and community more productive as a whole.
While keeping software production ready throughout its lifecycle and optimizing your delivery process for shorter cycle times might seem like a good idea to you, the rest of your organization might not share your excitement. In this talk, I share stories from companies who have attempted to adopt continuous delivery …
Let’s face it: DVCS is here to stay. But what’s the point? There’s a million tutorials on the internet that tell you what to type in Git, but not why! Go one level deeper: A few straightforward concepts and some pictures, and Git will magically make sense.
No one wins an award for having the most popular status site. Learn the top practical techniques 37signals uses for keeping their sites available at all times, even during scheduled maintenance! From hardware choices, to network topology, to high availability services, it all matters. This presentation introduces tools like intermission …
