Adam Jacob interviewed at Velocity 2011
summary
Built Chef at Opscode to separate configuration data from pattern so consulting work scales; used it to fully automate 12 startups end-to-end. Chef grows as small primitives that accrete into simple systems, now with 360 individual contributors and 70 corporate contributors and about 250 existing recipes. Identifies systems integration as the hard part, advocates feature flags to blur deploy vs infra, and insists hardware still matters — SSDs and EBS limits change performance and retrofit automation is costly.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:10Building from the ground up
- 5:35Systems administrators vs software developers
- 7:15Automated infrastructure
- 10:30Application management
- 14:00Hardware specs
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