News and notes from the ControlTier Project. Friday, April 23, 2010. This release is focused on performance issues and bug fixes. Many thanks to bug filers, mailing list participants, and committers. Several fixes to inefficient code have increased the performance in the key areas of ControlTier command dispatch and execution. Documentation available on The ControlTier Wiki.

In older, or more established organizations, the transition to a Devops mentality has many challenges. Here are my thought on Devops from the perspective of an established organization migrating to Devops. Monday, October 27, 2014. DevOps is Necessary but not Sufficient. Tuesday, September 9, 2014. A large part of this.

Saturday, February 13, 2010. So, you are faced with having to use another siloed provisioning tool that is designed and built for use with your chosen cloud provider. You need to retrain staff.

Executing External Commands in Go. Sometimes we need to invoke operating system commands from our code. Most languages have APIs for this - Java has Runtime. This post briefly explores the Go API. Abstraction encapsulates a command object, where various tweaks can be done including setting the standard output and error streams. Creating the Cmd object is straighforward.

In 2011 the core maintainers of ControlTier embraced a new philosophy of simpler automation through a toolchain approach. Their development efforts are now going into project Rundeck. The old ControlTier project site is still available at controltier. Provides DevOps and Automation Consulting.

A view from the trenches in a software as a service, e-commerce, and cloud computing world. Tuesday, September 29, 2009.

The abyss between dev and ops. This blog is about topics affecting developers and sysadmins. Check selenium with Selenium Server 2. On Monday, April 9, 2012. I just pushed a new version of check selenium to my github repository. Hope this will help some of you to get their checks running.