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Lucas Welch
Former Chef Employee
Awesome Community Chef: Jon Cowie – “(Knife) Sporking Awesomeness”
By Lucas Welch
Computers have fascinated Jon Cowie since he was little. So much so, that he dreamed of being a developer from an early age after encountering BASIC in old Atari magazines. He pursued this dream all the way through university, where he attained a computer science degree in 2005. Then, something happened.
Read moreUltra Early Bird Pricing for #ChefConf 2014 ends in two weeks!
By Lucas Welch
That’s right, you only have two weeks left to get #ChefConf 2014 tix for $850. This super discount ends Dec. 31. So… Register today! Our third annual #ChefConf, goes down April 15-17, at the Hyatt Embarcadero in San Francisco.
Read moreChef Closes $32 Million In Series D Funding
By Lucas Welch
Scale Venture Partners Leads Over-Subscribed Round Including Citi Ventures and Follow-On Investments From Battery Ventures, DFJ, and Ignition Partners Company’s Third Quarter Sales Grow 250 Percent Year-Over-Year as Enterprises Adopt Chef to Move at the Speed of Customer Demand SEATTLE – December 9, 2013 – Chef™ (formerly Opscode), IT automation for speed and awesomeness, today […]
Read moreChef Bolsters Executive Team To Position Company For Long-Term Growth
By Lucas Welch
Curt Anderson Joins Chef as CFO, Tucker Callaway Joins Chef as VP of Enterprise Sales, and Tom Murphy Joins Chef as VP of Services SEATTLE – December 9, 2013 – Chef™ (formerly Opscode), IT automation for speed and awesomeness, today announced three new executive appointments during a period of accelerating company growth.
Read moreNew Chef Commissioned Study States That Enterprise IT Is Too Slow For Business Today
By Lucas Welch
Commissioned Study Conducted by Independent Consulting Firm, and Based on a Survey of Fortune 1000 IT Professionals, Reveals an Industry Crisis Plus Signs of Hope, Thanks to Automation and DevOps SEATTLE – December 9, 2013 – Chef™ (formerly Opscode), IT automation for speed and awesomeness, today announced the publication of an October 2013 commissioned study […]
Read moreAwesome Chefs – Infochimps Iron(fan)s Enterprise Big Data Stacks w/Chef
By Lucas Welch
Infochimps helps some of the world’s biggest companies make sense of and then act on their troves of data. The Infochimps Cloud delivers Big Data systems with unprecedented speed, simplicity, scale, and flexibility to enterprise companies. What’s that mean for their customers?
Read moreChef Adoption Soars in Europe
By Lucas Welch
Opscode European Revenue Grows 400 Percent in Past 12 Months with Klarna, PaddyPower, and Schuberg Philis Among Customers Using Enterprise Chef™ to Automate Business to Hyper-Speed; Leading UK-Based IT Recruitment Firm Reports Opscode Chef in Top Ten IT Contract ‘Skills on the Rise’ in Q3 2013 LONDON – November 13, 2013 – From Velocity Europe, […]
Read moreEnterprise Chef Helps Klarna Make Online Payments Safer and Simpler
By Lucas Welch
Deploys Opscode Enterprise Chef™ to Automate Large-Scale Virtualized Infrastructure, Empowering Engineering with Service-Oriented Architecture to Turbo-Charge Application Development LONDON – November 13, 2013 – From Velocity Europe, Opscode®, the leader in New IT automation, today announced Klarna, one of Europe’s fastest growing companies and a leader in online payments, has deployed Opscode Enterprise Chef™ to […]
Read moreAwesome Chefs – CustomInk Unites Dev & Ops, Codes Their Business
By Lucas Welch
Our close friends at CustomInk make it easy for anyone to create customized T-shirts, sweatshirts, and much more online. (Sidenote: We work with them to make all our Opscode and Chef T-Shirts). CustomInk employs proprietary, primarily Ruby-based software applications running on both virtualized and cloud servers to manage everything from its website to its printers.
Read moreDevOps + Continuous Delivery @ FlowCon on 11/1
By Lucas Welch
Question: What are Gene Kim (author of “The Phoenix Project”), Jez Humble (DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pioneer), Catherine Courage (VP of Customer Experience at Citrix), John Esser (Director Engineering Productivity and Agile Development at Ancestry.com), and Adrian Cockcroft (Director of Architecture for Cloud Systems @ Netflix) all doing next Friday, 11/1?
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