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Re: Is the Time of DevOps Now?

nigelkersten — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:30:51 -0000

Looking back at this piece, I wish I'd focused more on building up skills in your current teams instead of hunting for an external savior.

I think of it in many ways as being analogous to software rewrites. The right path is usually to take an incremental approach with a mix of improvements to existing software and new, targeted components. Your staff almost certainly deserve similar levels of respect for existing domain knowledge.

Re: Is the Time of DevOps Now?

nigelkersten — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:38:02 -0000

Thanks Stan. This really does make a huge difference. Simpler APIs are usually better for everyone, but the great thing about simple REST/HTTP APIs is that you can even invoke them easily in simple shell scripts, which makes integration into existing workflows a relatively simple process.

Re: Making changes - Kartar.Net

nigelkersten — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:49:07 -0000

Best wishes mate! It's been awesome and you'll be missed for sure.

Re: FOSDEM: Slides from my talk

nigelkersten — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:38:39 -0000

gah, UI fail.

Was great to have you there Tyler, packed the room and rocked the show :)

Re: FOSDEM: Slides from my talk

nigelkersten — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:37:58 -0000

Was great to have you there Tyler, packed the room and rocked the show :)

Re: We're Moving!

nigelkersten — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:07:01 -0000

Welcome to Portland BankSimple!

Come drop by the Puppet Labs office sometime for a beer!

Re: Fix a bug in Ruby’s configure.in and get a ~30% performance boost.

nigelkersten — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:41:57 -0000

According to Matz, this isn't a problem for Ruby 1.8.7

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.j...

yet I'm still seeing performance improvements on the ruby benchmark suite when applying your patch...

Re: The Most Free(tm) Way to Make Money from Open Source

nigelkersten — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:20:00 -0000

I think the answer is "it depends" :)

Assigning copyright can be a problem in that it precludes many people who work at other commercial companies from contributing code. I have a few friends who are simply unable to contribute work related patches to OSS projects due to the policies of their own company.

I have no real issue with the open core model. I've seen it work quite well with products like OpenCMS, where a hell of a lot of deployments simply don't need features like LDAP/AD integration, and it has felt reasonable to purchase those licenses in the past for deployments that do need those features.

On the other hand you do end up with a certain level of tensions over these features between the community and the developers in the parent company in that someone in the community will eventually want to simply reverse engineer the closed source addons as open source, and they'll probably need development questions answered by the developers who are employed by the parent company.

I've seen this kind of situation put individual developers in a difficult position in the past, as they have both a responsibility to their employer, and a desire to do the right thing by their community.

Re: A Short Puppet History, pt. 2: Cfengine

nigelkersten — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:49:09 -0000

"It seemed that no one was interested in making a truly useful, simple tool, and there was this ridiculous, inane focus on theory in lieu of practice"

This is pretty much how I feel about the config-mgmt list in general.

I'm enjoying your new conversational approach to blogging Luke...