by Matthias Marschall on November 26, 2009 · 2 comments
Automatically setting up and maintaining my servers is a must for me. Only if everything I install and configure on a server is scripted I’m sure I know what’s there and that it stays that way. Having automated infrastructure enables me to schedule a critical setup change at 3 am and be on the safe [...]
by Matthias Marschall on August 7, 2009 · 0 comments
Walking once again through the twelve principles behind the Agile Manifesto, I realized how tailored they are for software development projects. Yet experience has shown that agile practices are not strictly limited to development projects, but to all areas involved in bringing a software product to the users.
Here is my version of the twelve [...]
by Matthias Marschall on July 23, 2009 · 0 comments
Devopsdays 2009
After years of advocating, @patrickdebois’s dream came true: He created the Devopsdays. Quoting his announcement from the Agile System Administration Google Group:
Devopsdays ‘09, the conference that tries to get the best of both dev
and ops world.
Two days of fun and interesting talks.
So if you are a developer with a interest for system administration,
or a [...]