Archive
The content listed below was from a 2014 Drupal site. It was then converted to Rocket SSG in May 2021
dataFundamentals as it existed before 2015
Welcome to dataFundamentals 2014 and previous years, back to it's origin in 2000!
Jeff's 2014 Blog
Pete's Summary of 2000-2014
The main blurbs
Or, if you want pages from 2014 in a single listing
In somewhat random order
- Jeff: 5 Stages of Chef Grief
- Jeff: Community cookbook issues
- Jeff: Supermarket - First look
- Jeff: Chef - Is there a wrong time to use it?
- Jeff: Chef - Top 10 ways to get help
- Jeff: Chef - Why are gem conflicts so hard?
- Jeff: Chef - Why even write tests?
- Jeff: Chef - DataFundamentals-specific cookbooks
- Jeff: David Strauss on containers
- Jeff: Devops Days Austin 2014 - recap
- Jeff: Docker and Packer playing nice
- Jeff: First thoughts on Docker and how it works with Chef
- Jeff: Initial thoughts on Ansible
- Jeff: Devops humor
- Jeff: Natural limitations of our practice
- Jeff: Persistent data containers
- Jeff: Scalable Rails app Nginx
- Jeff: Texas Linuxfest 2014 recap
- Jeff: What is the best way to spread devops tools in an org?
- Jeff: When will software companies provide deployment cookbooks?
- Jeff: Why Docker made me love Packer
- Jeff: Y U no go office-hours
- Jeff: Skill Summary
- Jeff: Skillset
- Jeff: Human
- Pete: Skill Summary
- Pete: Skillset
- Pete: Human
- Pete: Hadoop Smackdown
- CASE STUDY: Advanced code generation for larger teams
- CASE STUDY: Beyond staff augmentation - frameworks & automation
- CASE STUDY: Big data ETL & automation
- CASE STUDY: Big data ETL
- CASE STUDY: Converting prototype to production code
- CASE STUDY: CRUD UI w/o table specific code
- CASE STUDY: Eating our own dogfood
- CASE STUDY: Eclipse based structured notes app
- CASE STUDY: How to improve already brilliant team
- CASE STUDY: Modular Java Workspace Admin - project
- CASE STUDY: New tech / established dept
- CASE STUDY: Rapid dev custom mission critical software
- CASE STUDY: Setting up junior programmer
- CASE STUDY: Starting from scratch
- CASE STUDY: WebAppWriter helps thousand generate custom apps