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Evolving Continuous Delivery

Topics
Continuous Deployment,
GOTO 2011,
Continuous Delivery,
Continuous Integration,
Devops,
Agile Techniques,
Operations,
GOTO Conference,
IT Service Management,
Automation,
Conferences,
Agile,
Infrastructure,
Testing,
Cloud Computing

Chris Read describes a situation where they had to gradually reorganize a development process standardizing the build and deployment scripts, adding CI, automating everything, staging the binaries.

5 Configuration Management Best Practices

Topics
Python,
Configuration Management,
Planning,
Dynamic Languages,
Source Control,
Operations,
ALM,
Project Management,
Best Practices,
Languages,
Programming,
Infrastructure,
Enterprise Architecture,
Management,
Agile,
Update

There has been a lot of conversation going on around the configuration of applications, and how to manage it. This article explores things people can do from within their code to make their lives, and the lives of anyone else who has to administer or maintain their application, easier. These patterns have been used a number of times on ThoughtWorks projects, and they have proven their worth.

The Cloud Silver Bullet: Which Caliber Is Right for Me?

Topics
Amazon Web Services,
Salesforce.com,
Google AppEngine,
Amazon,
Operations,
SaaS,
QCon,
PaaS,
Google,
IaaS,
Cloud Computing,
Infrastructure,
QCon London 2010,
Conferences,
Rackspace,
Companies

Chris Read takes a look at clouds from the operations perspective, presenting various types of clouds and their tradeoffs, their strengths and weaknesses, the problems clouds solve but also the new problems that appear, and the process change the organization needs to go through to make a successful use of the cloud.