DevOps Days Mountain View 2011: To Package or Not to Package (Video)

Lively and sometimes contentious panel at DevOps Days Mountain View 2011. To Package or not to Package - Cutting Edge Software Distribution

Jordan Sissel (Loggly)
Joshua Timberman (Opscode)
Phil Hollenback (Yahoo Mail)
Noah Campbell (DTO Solutions)

Moderator: Kris Buytaert (Inuits)

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DevOps Days Mountain View:
http://devopsdays.org/events/2011-mountainview/

Special thanks to LinkedIn for hosting DevOps Days Mountain View 2011.

Also, thank you to the sponsors:
AppDynamics  DTO Solutions  Google  MaestroDev  New Relic  Nolio
O'Reilly Media  PagerDuty  Puppet Labs  Reactor8  Splunk  StreamStep
ThoughtWorks  Usenix

DevOps Days Mountain View 2011: DevOps State of the Union (Video)

To open DevOps Days Mountain View 2011, John Willis (DTO Solutions) delivers an energetic review of how we got here and provides a glimpse of where we are going.

See all videos from DevOps Days Mountain View 2011

DevOps Days Mountain View:
http://devopsdays.org/events/2011-mountainview/

Special thanks to LinkedIn for hosting DevOps Days Mountain View 2011.

Also, thank you to the sponsors:
AppDynamics  DTO Solutions  Google  MaestroDev  New Relic  Nolio
O'Reilly Media  PagerDuty  Puppet Labs  Reactor8  Splunk  StreamStep
ThoughtWorks  Usenix

More Video with John Allspaw at Etsy: Dashboard tour & metrics discussion

Here's another video I shot with John Allspaw at Etsy's Brooklyn, NY offices...

00:00 - John gives a tour of the big dashboards

02:42 - Zoom in on key deployment dashboard (yes, that says 24.6 code deploys per day!)

04:52 - John jumps on the whiteboard to explain what goes into their metrics efforts 

See the previous video with John.

Video with John Allspaw at Etsy: What to put on the big dashboards

I had the pleasure of visting the folks at Etsy recently. Etsy is well known in DevOps circles for their Continuous Deploymet and Metrics efforts.

I'll be posting more videos soon, but in the meantime here is a quick hit I recorded with John Allspaw while he gave me a tour of their Brooklyn HQ. I had just asked John about how they decide what to put on the big dashboards on the wall.

Here is what he told me...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi presents Jenkins to Silicon Valley DevOps Meetup (Video)

Kohsuke Kawaguchi stopped by the Silicon Valley DevOps Meetup on June 7, 2011 to give an in-depth tour of Jenkins. Kohsuke is the founder of both the Hudson and the Jenkins open source projects and now works for CloudBees.

Kohsuke's presentation covered not only the Jenkins basics but also more advanced topics like distributed builds in the cloud, the matrix project, and build promotion. Video and slides are below.

Once again, thanks to Box.net for hosting the event!