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If you heard about us at Velocity 2010 and are coming here for sweet sweet DevOps and agile info,  we’ve moved to a different blog – come see us at the agile admin!

Although we’re currently engaged in a more radical agile infrastructure implementation, I thought I’d share our previous evolutionary DevOps implementation here (way before the term was coined, but in retrospect I think it hits a lot of the same notes) and what we learned along the way. Here at NI we did what I’ll call […]

Want to hear me spout off more about DevOps?  Well, here’s your chance; I did an interview with Damon Edwards of DTO and they’ve posted it on the dev2ops blog! Killer quote: “I say this as somebody who about 15 years ago chose system administration over development.  But system administration and system administrators have allowed […]

In the recent Amazon AWS Newsletter, they asked the following: Some customers have asked us about ways to easily convert virtual machines from VMware vSphere, Citrix Xen Server, and Microsoft Hyper-V to Amazon EC2 instances – and vice versa. If this is something that you’re interested in, we would like to hear from you. Please […]

The second CloudCamp in Austin is happening June 10.  It’s an unconference about, of course, cloud computing.  Read about it and sign up here! I missed the first one but loved OpsCamp so I’m going!

Here’s a couple tidbits I’ve gleaned that are useful. When  you start an “instance-store” Amazon EC2 instance, you get a certain amount of ephemeral storage allocated and mounted automatically.  The amount of space varies by instance size and is defined here.  The storage location and format also varies by instance size and is defined here. […]

Web Operations Engineer If you’re from the Austin area you probably know National Instruments – our campus is up here at Mopac and Braker; we’ve been named one of Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies To Work For eleven years running. We’ve got an opening on a new team building cloud-based Web systems for new SaaS […]

From the “sad but true” files comes an extremely insightful point apparently discussed over beer by the UK devops crew recently – that we are talking about dev and ops collaboration but the current state of collaboration among ops teams is pretty crappy. Internal Borders by Graham Bleach DevOps is a good cause, but what […]

I recently read a great blog post by Scott Wilson that was talking about the definitions of Agile Operations, DevOps, and related terms.  (Read the comments too, there’s some good discussion.)  From what I’ve heard so far, there are a bunch of semi-related terms people are using around this whole “new thing of ours.” The […]

O’Reilly’s Velocity conference is the only generalized Web ops and performance conference out there.  We really like it; you can go to various other conferences and have 10-20% of the content useful to you as a Web Admin, or you can go here and have most of it be relevant! They’ve been doing some interim […]