staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud is very pleased to announce that in conjunction with Eric Norlin and Glue Conference 2014, we will be presenting our inaugural Camp DevOps @ Gluecon on May 20th, one day before Gluecon 2014. Camp DevOps will take place from 8:30 am until 4:30 pm. The event will be held at the Atlas Institute Building […]
MongoDB 2.6: Most Significant Release of Mongo Yet?
MongoDB announced the latest version of the popular NoSQL database yesterday, version 2.6. I had a chance to speak with Kelly Stirman, Director of Product at Mongo about the release. The release is chocked full of goodies for Mongo users. For me chief among them was the new security features highlighted in the press release below. […]
Mobile Apps and Big Data Megatrends Drive Application Performance Management
As the megatrends of Big Data, mobility and cloud continue to reshape the IT landscape many companies are responding by refocusing their solutions to provide better visibility and support for these technologies. Case in point is AppDynamics new Spring 2014 release announced yesterday (full disclosure, AppDynamics is a sponsor on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud but that sponsorship has […]
MongoDB Replication Pro-tips: Reporting Instances
Any shop that has a DevOps culture, and that has MongoDB backed applications, uses replica sets… not just for production applications, but for those still in the prototyping phase. Replication is critical for uptime, so your Ops team has been working with your Devs all through the development of your project, and you didn’t defer […]
staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud is Now an Official Media Sponsor of MongoDB World
staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud, the place where the world meets DevOps is happy to report that we will be an official media sponsor of the upcoming MongoDB World conference. The event is in NYC at the Sheraton New York Times Square, 811 7th Ave, New York, NY 10019 on June 23-25, 2014. staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud will be providing live coverage […]
MongoDB Needs and Loves DevOps
DevOps is about more than just running infrastructure smarter, with more automation. It’s a means to engineering agile, robust, and modern software by blending the traditionally siloed areas of administration and development. This means infrastructure as code, and developer concern for operations. It means more than calling sysadmins “DevOps Engineers”; it means operators and developers […]
DevOps: It’s All Open Source’s Fault
Blame DevOps on open source. After all, it was the open source movement that gave developers the idea that they were free to code, free to build applications and other software for their companies without needing prior approval. It was open source that crowned developers kingmakers. It was open source that gave developers the freedom […]