Screaming In The Cloud

How are companies evolving in a world where Cloud is on the rise? Where Cloud providers are bought out and absorbed into other companies? Today, we’re talking to Nell Shamrell-Harrington about Cloud infrastructure. She is a senior software engineer at Chef, CTO at Operation Code, and core maintainer of the the Habitat open source product. Nell has traveled the world to talk about Chef, Ruby, Rails, Rust, DevOps, and Regular Expressions. Some of the highlights of the show include: Chef is a configuration management tool that handles instance, files, virtual machine container, and other items. Immutable infrastructure has emerged as the best of practice approach. Chef is moving into next gen through various projects, including one called, Compliance - a scanning tool. Some people don’t trust virtualization. Habitat is an open source project featuring software that allows you to use a universal packaging format. Habitat is a run-time, so when you run a package on multiple virtual machines, they form a supe