The Ship Show

When it comes to configuration management frameworks, CFEngine is always part of the conversation. We talk with the father of the configuration management tool and the CTO of CFEngine Mark Burgess and CMO of CFEngine, Mark de Visser about CM, CM tools, where CM intersects business needs, and the trends affecting CM today. This, plus a discussion of the week's News & Views and a review of "The Facts & Fallacies of Software Engineering" by Robert L. Glass.

Is there such a thing as too much automation? Many would say "No, of course not," but is it that simple? Is blindly automating everything in sight the best use of time and resources and, more importantly, the best way to manage risk in the release process? Join us as we try to answer whether "too much automation" exists, plus News & Views and the premier of our new segment: "Dear Abby for DevOps."

What do you do "mistakes may have been made," and it's time to be solution-oriented?! Whether it's a deployment that replaced good code with bad, an infrastructure problem discovered after a maintenance window, or even a bug in the deployment process itself, join us as we look at the ins & outs of rollbacks, plus News & Views and in Tool Tips, a look at Vagrant.

How do you hire the best release and devops engineers? We look at methods, questions, and red-flags to be on the lookup for; also, News & Views, plus in Tool Tips, a look at "ack".

Is "DevOps" just "Release Engineering" for Web 2-dot-oh? How is it the same? How is it different? Plus, a review of Rundeck and the week's News & Views.

Why should companies bother with release engineering practices? What's the benefit? Plus, a review of "Configuration Management Best Practices" by Bob Aiello and Leslie Sachs.