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DevOps
Join us this week in Bengaluru
This Wednesday, we are joining with Clogeny for Chef : The Path to Full Automation, an evening of discussions centered around DevOps. Tickets are free and would love see you there. Additional information and registration is available on Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.
Read moreDevOps for developers w/Chef [Part II] (Guest Blog Series)

By Lucas Welch
We’re continuing Michael Hüttermann’s guest blog series on DevOps and its ability to streamline software development and delivery. Part two explains DevOps in a ‘nutshell’…see Part I and Part III for more. Part II.
Read moreParkinson’s Law, DevOps, and Kingdoms

By Michael Ducy
This post was originally published on Goat Can. Destruction of silos is all the rage in DevOps and has been since the beginning of the movement. Patrick Debois wrote a very intelligent piece on why silos exist and how they came about as a management strategy.
Read moreDevOps for developers w/Chef (Guest Blog Series)

By Lucas Welch
The Chef Community is full of excellent people with cool insights, experiences, and knowledge to share. From #ChefConf to the Developer Summit to Meetups, exchanging ideas is inherent to what our Community is all about. This principle extends to our blog, where we like to feature voices from the Community from time to time.
Read more#ChefConf 2014 Workshop Spotlight: Kanban

By Lucas Welch
Continuing our blog series highlighting each of the #ChefConf workshops and the unique learning opportunity they each present, today’s post puts the spotlight on Dragos Dumitriu’s “Introduction to Kanban for IT Operations and DevOps”, which will focus on helping people and teams in operations roles develop a new perspective and a new mindset that is […]
Read moreChef Workshops & Talks at SCaLE 12x
Join us at SCaLE 12x, the Linux/Open Source software expo in North America. We’ll be hosting two Chef workshops as well as great Chef technical presentations from Cloud Integrations Lead, Matt Ray and Software Engineer, Sean O’Meara. Matt will be presenting on Chef deployment on OpenStack on Saturday, February 22nd.
Read moreEmpowering An Entire Generation of Businesses to Deliver

By Barry Crist
Chef is surging right now. As we announced yesterday: Total sales last year grew 188 percent over 2012. Our annual recurring revenue quadrupled. Nearly 70 percent of the sales came from Fortune 1000 organizations. European sales grew 400 percent YoY. The open source Chef Community grew more than 200 percent.
Read moreEnterprise IT Is Too Slow for Business Today (Pt. 1)

By Barry Crist
Companies Must Get Addicted to Moving Fast This blog series is about technology and business speed – how it’s stressing organizations; why they need to catch up; and how they can make up lost ground – before they get left behind. The first post, which follows, lays out the problem and solution.
Read moreDiary of our European Adventure

By Lucas Welch
Over the past couple weeks we published a series of blogs previewing the many adventures of a number of our stateside Chefs in Europe, who traveled across the Atlantic to help add to all our European Chef Team has been building in the past year and a half.
Read moreDevOps: What if everything we’ve been doing is wrong?

By Michael Ducy
This post was originally published on Goat Can. After I wrote my last post, I was talking with Donnie Berkholz as we traveled to FOSDEM. Donnie commented on how powerful of a post it was, yet it left the reader hanging. He, and other readers, wanted more.
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