" Chef - Cooking 101" by John Williams (@j_m_williams) is up next at # rubymidwest
Chef: Automate building a server up from bare metal to a ready to deploy machine. pretty awesome. @ j m williams # rubymidwest I talked to John the night before and I think it was his first talk. He was a bit shaky. It didn't help that server set up is dry, dry stuff. And, to be honest, most of the crowd doesn't care about the topic. Sorry John but we're coders.
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We're sad to say goodbye to our good friend and current operations manager Mark Imbriaco, but we know that he'll continue to kick ass in his new position at Heroku. Mark has been with us for almost four years and seen our infrastructure grow from a handful of servers to I've-lost-count.
This means that we're looking for a new operations manager to join our band. The operations team already consists of Joshua Sierles and John Williams and this new person will be working …
We're excited to welcome John Williams to the operations team at 37signals this week. John will be joining Joshua and me to make sure our servers and infrastructure are as reliable as possible. John impressed us with a job application similar to the one that Craig submitted and went the extra mile by driving 5 hours to Chicago to meet with us face to face for a couple of hours.
John has past experience doing Rails development and as a systems engineer at Contegix …