devnation

There is only one day left for Red Hat Summit and DevNation, and my brain is about at capacity for what it will be able to remember! I had a most excellent day yesterday (Wednesday) and I am so proud of my teammates. They rocked their presentations! The amusing and frustrating part about the day was that I had 2-3 presentations picked out for each time slot, and it was very hard to make a decision on where to go...

WARNING: Shameless plug! If you do nothing else today, you should go to these two Red Hat Summit tracks. Not only are the guys speaking the smartest dudes in the room, closet super heroes and have all held world records for Olympic speed walking, they work in the same department as me and can give you a look into how Red Hat IT is using Red Hat products. Meeting the challenge with PaaS: OpenShift in the enterprise - 10:40 with...

With the individual tracks coming to close on Day One at DevNation conference, I wanted to share the key takeaways, funny comments, and facepalm moments I experienced. Agile architecture and design with Neal Ford One of the most compelling presentations of the day, Neal validated a lot of the decisions that I have been involved in over the past 5 months in a DevOps enablement team; specifically around the most memorable quote of the talk: "Defer design decisions until the...

I decided to theme each day of my DevNation conference attendance so that I could achieve some sense of a goal and also help me select which tracks to attend. For Tuesday, I went with the "go to something you love, or something you know nothing about" theme. Here is where I will be: 10:40-11:40 DevAssistant: What's in it for you? with Bohuslav Kabrda If I achieve nothing else in the next two years of my career with Team Inception...

Join the DevNation Hacknight at Moscone Center South in San Francisco. April 16 from 6 - 11ish p.m. (PT). Enjoy pizza and beer, write some code, have fun, and be entered to win some prizes. Registration is free and is open to registered DevNation attendees only. Reserve your spot now, space is limited. We encourage you to bring your app ideas - this is your chance to recruit a team to help write the app or advance the project you've...

Not sure how the DevNation team managed to do this without talking to me, but it appears they custom tailored Monday's tracks specifically for me... oh, and probably for everyone else who is going that is interested in DevOps. :) Thanks DevNation; thrilled to be able to go! If you haven't already taken a look at the line-up, now is the time to do it. Here is where I will be on Monday: 8:30-10:00 - Agile architecture and design with...

A number of people in the greater San Francisco area have asked for day passes to the DevNation open source developer conference, and so they are now available. See pricing and registration info here.

Scott McCarty of Red Hat shared his thoughts on the upcoming DevNation. What session are you giving at DevNation? Resilient enterprise messaging with JBoss A-MQ - Scott Cranton & Scott McCarty What are three takeaways from your session? High availability capabilities of JBoss A-MQ High availability capabilities of Red Hat High Availability Demo of software What do you find most exciting about DevNation? Continuous delivery through continuous questioning - Joel Tosi How Netflix uses DevOps for reliability and developer velocity...

Here's what Red Hat's Catherine Robson, UX designer, had to say about DevNation. What session are you giving at DevNation? I'm presenting User Experience Bootcamp on Tuesday at 1:20pm. Here's the abstract: "Do you have to design websites or applications for your company? Do you feel like they just don't compare to apps and websites you regularly use? Learn how to apply user-centric design principles and visual design basics to bring your applications from bland to beautiful. From mobile to...

Oved Ourfali (@ovedou), Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, and oVirt community member, will be speaking at DevNation. Here is what he had to say about the DevNation developer conference. What session are you giving at DevNation? " Advanced Integration with the oVirt engine", a talk that aims to teach how one can extend and customize oVirt to fit its needs, by using oVirt plugin mechanisms: UI, Scheduling and Host plugins (VDSM hooks). What are three takeaways from your sessions...

I had a chance to catch-up with Mark Little, VP of Engineering at Red Hat, to discuss his DevNation involvement and I could feel his enthusiasm through the phone line. Here's what Mark shared about DevNation (and even a bit about Red Hat Summit). What sessions are you giving at DevNation? The first session is the Developer Keynote on Monday (4:00-5:00 in Hall A) with Craig Muzilla, SVP of Red Hat. Previously called the Middleware Keynote, this typically kicks off...

Many of you may know Grant from the Red Hat OpenShift PaaS developer advocate team - see the list of Grant's sessions plus those others he plans to take in. Grant Shipley: OpenShift at DevNation 2014 | Miles to go 2.0 ….

Lincoln Baxter will talk on JBoss Forge at DevNation 2014 | Miles to go 2.0 ….

I recently caught up with Dan (a funny guy a great presenter - ask him about his comic strip) about the upcoming DevNation developer event (San Francisco, April 13-17) and his hot topic session on containers. Here's what he had to say: What sessions are you giving at DevNation? I will be giving a talk on Secure Linux Containers or as I like to call it 'Dockah, Dockah, Dockah'* The talk will be covering the basis of containers and explain...

Will Cohen shares what he'll be talking about at DevNation and what else he's looking forward to. What sessions are you giving at DevNation ? Tuesday afternoon at DevNation I will be presenting "Recipes to Diagnose Common Performance Issues". Tuesday evening we will have a Beer & BoF - "Best Practices for System and Application Monitoring" Come for the beer; stay for the knowledge. What are three takeaways from your sessions ? A system's upper bound on performance is usually...

James Pearce is head of open source at Facebook and provided his thoughts on DevNation: What session are you giving at DevNation? "How Facebook does open source at scale" Open source has always been a huge part of Facebook's engineering philosophy. The company uses, maintains, and contributes to a significant number of major projects, in areas as diverse as native mobile tools, big data systems, client-side web libraries, back-end runtimes and infrastructure, and, through the Open Compute Project, server and...

Reposting from Arun Gupta's blog, Gavin King, the creator of Hibernate and Ceylon, discusses Ceylon and what he's looking forward to seeing at DevNation. If you've not learned about Ceylon, this is your chance! Gavin King: Ceylon at DevNation 2014 | Miles to go 2.0 ….

Is your application's performance having problems scaling properly? If so, do you know if it’s due to false cacheline sharing – causing the ping-ponging of cachelines between NUMA nodes? False sharing occurs when one or more processes or threads repeatedly modifies data co-located in the same cacheline. This forces the other processes and threads to invalidate their cached copies and reload, often from main memory, with the updated values. This can slow programs down considerably. Red Hat has developed an...

I just can't wait for DevNation, can you? I mean, conferences that bring together such a great amount of great people talking about great projects are just great! I think we all know the two big topics of present: clouds and containerization. But the DevNation schedule shows that much more is going on. Personally, I can't wait to see "Eleven Ceylon Idioms" by Gavin King. I've kept my eye on Ceylon language from its beginning and I think it really...

We've just over a month to go until Red Hat Summit 2014 and the newly rebranded DevNation conference open their doors in San Francisco's Moscone Center South, located in the heart of downtown San Francisco. While we're putting the finishing touches to our great new product releases for developers, we're also really looking forward to attending the conferences ourselves. They present a great opportunity for like-minded developers to come together, see what's new and share ideas - all part of...

The DevNation agenda is now live ( www.devnation.org) and registration is open! With over 250 submissions, 43 selected sessions, 12 birds-of-a-feather panels, full day training courses, a hackathon, and an evening event, we hope to make DevNation an amazing event targeting and featuring the Developer and DevOps communities. The conference has participation from Twitter, Netflix, Facebook, Hortonworks, ThoughtWorks, Docker, the Eclipse Foundation, the jQuery Foundation, the Java Community Process, Docker, countless others, and of course, Red Hat! April 13-17, 2014...

Red Hat brought a LOT of new and excellent application development products and capabilities during 2013, so I thought I would assemble this list for you here in case you missed any. Note that this is not a complete list (and comment if I missed something that you feel should be mentioned), and by the way, it is listed in random order. Red Hat Software Collections general availability. Yes, I will list this first as it's my personal favorite as...