There’s a thought provoking article by David Mitchell at The Guardian site right now. It’s relatively short and worth reading, and I say that even as someone who isn’t all that interested in the NHS project that frames the article’s opening paragraphs. Mitchell makes two points that I found myself both agreeing with as a developer and sysadmin, and leading me to further thought. First, from David Mitchell in I want to talk to you about the NHS… ...

One topic frequently tossed around at the recent Opscode summit was a re-org of the cookbooks repository. No more monolothic cookbooks repo on github, instead replaced by single cookbook repos, making it much easier to pull and contribute to a single cookbook. @jtimberman will be leading this effort. On a slightly unrelated note, it looks like @dysinger posted a handy little cleanup script:

The first historic Opscode Community Summit is officially over. See yesterdays post for a basic description of the event and structure. After another brief introduction, topics were discussed, a schedule arranged and the agenda was live. Topics for day two included: Managed Nodes a.k.a external entities Chef for big data projects, such as hadoop, cassandra and similar Ticket/triage process Network monitoring, it sucks Feature roadmaps, both short and long term ...

Opscode Summit day one has passed. I had to skip the sponsored dinner tonight, so for others it might still be going on. While there were lot’s of great sessions going on, and a great variety of people (seemed like 100+ in attendance), one thing stood out to me: The Chef community is awesome. To be fair, there are many great tech communities but the advantage the chef community has, and devops culture in general, is how many different skill sets are necessarily brought together combined with a culture of friendliness. Networking gurus, SysAdmin fanatics and passionate Devs are all brought together to solve some of the toughest challenges in modern computing infrastructures. ...