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Headed to Velocity 2013 next week? Then join Opscode and thousands of peers, friends new and old, and really smart people in learning, socializing, and sharing best practices for moving business faster in a web-driven world.

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Some more interesting ‘news’ tidbits today, including: – Cool interview w/Kevin Behr, co-author of The Phoenix Project, over at Wired.com – First in a series of blogs on the current (and exciting) state of app dev from Sonatype CTO Jason van Zyl at Computerworld. Happy reading.

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For the third installment of our new #ChefTalks customer video series, we interviewed Jamie Winsor, a newly minted Awesome Chef, the author of Berkshelf, and Software Engineer at Riot Games.

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As most of you in the Community already know, Facebook uses Opscode Private Chef to automate configuration management for its ‘Carl Sagan big’ infrastructure. That’s very cool, but also pretty widely known. Today, we published a new angle to the story.

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Today we launched a new series of Chef testimonial videos offering varied and unique perspectives on the journey to becoming a coded business. The first of these #ChefTalks videos features Rob Cummings, infrastructure engineer at Nordstrom, discussing how to level-up change in your organization.

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Need some weekend reading? We recommend checking out SearchDataCenter‘s interview with Red Hat’s director of software engineering Denise Dumas, detailing roadmap plans for RHEL. Meanwhile InfoWorld looks at Red Hat’s new Software Collections 1.0, featuring new versions of Ruby and Python for RHEL.

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Are you headed to Orlando for IBM Innovate next week? If so, be sure to check out Opscode’s VP of Solutions, George Moberly, at the event spreading the good word on Chef.

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In hopes of helping all of you in the Community stay up-to-date on what tech press are providing in terms of news, opinions, and best practices from end-users, this post marks the first in an ongoing series of ‘news round-ups’ we’ll be posting every couple weeks here at Opscode’s blog.

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From raising money for those impacted by the tornado in Oklahoma, to helping people fight cancer, Indiegogo crowd-funds important, even life-changing projects the world over. To do so, the company uses Rackspace to power a flexible, scalable cloud infrastructure behind all the awesome projects and site traffic.

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