Posts Tagged: open source


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Nov 14

Five Years of DevOps (and Its Days)

Has it really been five years since the Patrick Debois launched the first DevOps Days in Ghent Belgium?! Turns out: time flies when developers and operations are getting along and getting bits shipped. We sit down with an all-star panel, live from DevOps Days Ghent, including Dave Mangot, Steve Pereira, Kris Buytaert, Gareth Rushgrove, John Willis, and the father himself, Patrick Debois to discuss what the first few DevOps Days were like, how it became an international mainstay of the DevOps Community, where DevOps has been in the last five years and where it’s going in the next five, and what to make of “Enterprise DevOps”; join us for:

Five Years of DevOps (and Its Days)

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng and Pete Cheslock, aka @petecheslock for the discussion, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a ToolTip!

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ToolTip

Paul, via Youssuf, introduces us to gitignore.io, a service to automagically generate your .gitignore file for projects.

Their video tutorial walks you through all the .gitignorey goodness!

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How did you get involved with the DevOps community and “movement”?

What do you think is in store for DevOps in the next five years?

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Oct 12

Rolling Your Own

Episode 8 brings crisp fall weather (“summer” in San Francisco), and a discussion on rolling your own: your own tool, your own Jenkins or Maven plugin, your own whatever. We take a closer look at some of the costs associated with doing so and some of the aspects to think about when trying to decide whether to hack on (and join) the open source community around a particular tool, or buck up and write it yourself. When exactly is the best decision:

Rolling Your Own

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, and Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d for the discussion, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a review of the recent Jenkins User Conference.

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Review

EJ tells us all about his experience at the recent Jenkins User Conference in San Francisco, including a coverage of the most important aspect of the conference: the food!


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Has “rolling your own” sometimes been a nightmare, sometimes a nightmare? Never a nightmare? Are there “happy ever after” roll-your-own stories?

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