On May 2 & 3, Chef proudly sponsored DevOps Days Austin and the Happy Hour event. I was in great company with four Chef presenters: Nathen Harvey, Matt Ray, Jody Wolfborn, and me – JJ Asghar.

We at Chef believe it is important to conduct public post mortems whenever possible. We recently conducted one around a Supermarket/Berkshelf incident that occurred on May 16, 2016. I was the incident commander for this incident and would like to share both the video and write up.

Signups are now open for the Chef Server HA beta program! Chef Server HA 2.0 is a completely new high availability (HA) architecture designed for mission-critical performance and reliability. During the open-invite beta period, running from now until July 1st, you’ll be able to try out this new feature and provide feedback. Chef Server HA 2.

We’re seven weeks from ChefConf, the huge community reunion open to everyone that celebrates our vibrant and passionate community. We’re busy preparing an invigorating blend of technology and local Austin experiences to energize everyone attending.

Hearst Business Media is a global technology leader delivering information, insights, analytics, and workflow solutions to meet worldwide needs in the finance, healthcare and transportation markets.

Can you prove your servers are hardened correctly? Can you patch zero-day vulnerabilities in minutes? How quickly can you generate the reports your auditors demand? With Chef you’ll get it done quickly using automation. Chef Compliance lets you express your compliance rules as code. You can easily run those rules as tests whenever you want.

Criteo is the leading performance marketing technology company. It is based in Paris with offices around the world.  Criteo enables e-commerce businesses to provide personalized ads and email to users who have previously visited a retailer’s site. To provide this service, Criteo must log and process extremely large amounts of data.

The technological revolution is here. It’s sweeping the nation, and Seattle is no exception to the overwhelming takeover of startups, developers, engineers and entrepreneurs pursuing their dreams in fulfilling careers in healthcare, government, education, travel, and more. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce just released a study ranking and evaluating how 25 U.S.

On Tuesday, May 17th, I co-presented a live webinar covering a showcase of some of the latest Chef integrations with AWS. You can watch the recording below. Most of the components we presented have been available to you in the Chef framework for quite some time.