Edd Dumbill

Edd Dumbill
Program Chair, O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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Edd Dumbill is co-chair of the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, and leads the design and implementation of conference software at O’Reilly.

Sessions

8:30am Monday, 05/04/2009
Running the Show: Configuration Management with Chef
Tutorial
 Location: Pavilion 2 - 3
Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. )
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Few completed Rails apps are architecturally simple. As soon as you grow, you find yourself using multiple subsystems and machines to scale, creating new headaches in configuration management. Help is at hand! This tutorial introduces Chef, a modern Ruby-based open source approach to systems integration. Chef lets you manage your servers by writing code, not running commands. Read more.
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