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Working with software in a professional setting is very different from school. Former Puppet Labs intern (now employee) Melissa Stone shares her experience.

A CTO in the finance industry questions how far DevOps can go in an enterprise company.

Erika Hall says her new book is for people who “may have a vague idea that research is a good thing, but the benefits are fuzzy while the costs are all too clear.” Does she deliver on her promise to make basic research concepts and techniques more accessible in under 150 pages?

If you’ve been interested in evaluating Puppet Enterprise in a cloud environment but haven’t been sure how to get started, we’ve published a new guide to help: Video and a printable guide inside.

The first FlowCon offered great insights into creating more innovation through continuous delivery and lean product development. Here are our top 20 slides.

Cloud apps often need more than one node for a given task. Here’s a blog post from our friends at Rackspace about designing load balanced servers.

Our new continuous delivery ebook is meant to help sysadmins, developers and managers understand what CD is and how to get started.

Today, Cisco announced the launch of its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) architecture, a data center and cloud solution built around an application-aware network policy model. In a nutshell, an ACI architecture closes the gap between the configuration needs of a given application and the network on which it runs. Cisco ACI combines innovation in software, […]

Mobile app development can be sped up and improved by implementing DevOps and continuous delivery.

Welcome to the weekend, and our weekly roundup of bits and bobs that caught our eye. Don’t miss all the good links, and definitely don’t pass up the opportunity to win some pretty awesome stuff.

Teams adopting DevOps practices get their products to market faster, and see an uplift in customers and revenue.

We just released Geppetto version 4.0, the first release under Puppet Labs’ ownership! Read on for what’s new.

At PuppetConf 2013, community lead Dawn Foster presented an animation of git commits to the Puppet code base since April 15, 2005. We asked long-time contributors David Lutterkort and Adrien Thebo to provide some commentary to help understand how the project has evolved over the past 8 1/2 years.

Mark Collier from the OpenStack Foundation produced a great demo highlighting some of OpenStack Havana’s new features. Take a look!

If it’s okay to talk about a “DevOps toolchain,” why is the notion of a “DevOps team” so reprehensible to the leading DevOps thinkers and practitioners?

Puppet Enterprise developer Nathaniel Smith talks about winning second prize at the recent Clojure Cup for MUREPL, a browser-based MUD he built with engineering intern Andrew Roetker.

Tom Limoncelli maps five milestones with which you can measure the success of DevOps culture in your organization.