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DevOps Days Comes To Vancouver, October 25-26th 20 Aug 2013 | 11:25 pm
It's finally happening! DevOps Days will be landing in Vancouver, BC later this year. This conference, which is now happening frequently around the globe, is THE conference for bridging the gap betwee...
Mozilla's Brandon Burton talks DevOps at Agile 2013 14 Aug 2013 | 01:55 am
At the Agile conference in Nashville last week, I attended Brandon Burton's DevOps talk, "Enabling DevOps - the road to a better culture". This is a summary of that talk. Who is Brandon Burton? Bran...
Best Practices: Running Drupal on Stackato 13 Aug 2013 | 11:32 pm
We've had Drupal available in Stackato's App Store for a long time now. That deployment of the app is great for demos, or to get up and running quickly with a CMS, but a more in-depth Drupal workflow ...
Joining the Stackato Team 7 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
This post is by Mark Cox, the new Stackato Technical Lead. He came to ActiveState from Appsecute and currently resides in Christchurch, New Zealand. It's been almost 2 months since ActiveState acquir...
John Arundel on DevOps 2 Aug 2013 | 10:42 pm
A few months ago, in my post The Elusiveness of DevOps, I asked John Arundel of Bitfield Consulting what his definition of "DevOps" was. Now, we dig a little deeper in this interview in which John dis...
Cloud Metamorphosis: An Interview with Morphlabs CTO Christopher Aedo 30 Jul 2013 | 01:37 am
Over the seven years of its existence, Los Angeles-based Morphlabs journeyed from Platform as a Service (PaaS) to OpenStack, and now offers complete public and private cloud solutions for service prov...
DevOps at the Gate: An Interview with EA's Senior Director of Operations, Allison Miller 25 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
When it comes to managing risk, Allison Miller is tasked with an awesome (in more ways than one) responsibility: Her very important job is to protect Electronic Arts’ invaluable digital platform from ...
Thoughts on Pivotal, Cloud Foundry, IBM, and Stackato 24 Jul 2013 | 10:16 am
Welcome, IBM, to the Cloud Foundry ecosystem! ActiveState has been a proud member since 2011. Throughout that time, we've brought dozens of large enterprise (Fortune 500) customers in too, including H...
How to Deploy Cloud Foundry v2 to AWS via Vagrant 23 Jul 2013 | 10:55 pm
Stackato is built on top Cloud Foundry (plus other open source packages), so we're excited about Cloud Foundry v2 and are watching it closely as it evolves. In this post I'm going to quickly run throu...
How to create your own custom service in Stackato 18 Jul 2013 | 09:35 pm
Services are essential for cloud-enabled applications and therefore core to Stackato. Whether it's relational database services like PostgreSQL, message queueing services like RabbitMQ, NoSQL data sto...
