Year: 2015

Agile Failure Patterns In Organizations

“Agile Failure Patterns In Organizations” explains why Agile is simple and complex at the same time.

Finally! Something I can distract all those Agile prophets with, while I sneak out to do some work.

6 great monospaced fonts for code and terminal in Fedora

Fedora Magazine covers “6 great monospaced fonts for code and terminal in Fedora“. Their choices are:

Hack
Inconsolata
Source Code Pro
Fira Mono
Droid Sans Mono
DejaVu Sans Mono

It’s been a while since I considered a change to the monospaced fonts that I’m using. The top three fonts in my list from a while back are Fixedsys Excelsior, Monaco, and Microsoft Consolas. I used Fixedsys Excelsior almost exclusively in all my terminal windows.

Happy birthday, IMDb!

According to Wikipedia, Internet Movie Database, or IMDb, as we know it, has turned 25 years old (launched on October 17, 1990). What an achievement! There aren’t that many websites around that are that old and still that useful.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish a very Happy Birthday to everyone who was involved with the site during all this years. Thank you!

I hope one day we’ll overcome all those copyright restrictions and it’ll be possible to watch movies and TV series directly on the site, much like the trailers are now.

The Box That Built the Modern World

Slashdot runs the story on the shipping container and how it changed the world:

Think of the shipping container as the Internet of things

Make sure to read the discussion as well, as there are quite a few insightful and interesting comments, with calculations, comparisons, and such.

Red Hat acquires Ansible

Linux Weekly News reports that Red Hat acquires Ansible. There are quite a few configuration management tools around, and it was only the matter of time until Red Hat, with all its corporate client base, would buy one. Or pledge allegiance. My personal preference would be in Puppet, but Puppet comes from the Ruby world, where’s Red Hat is more of a Python shop.

Ansible’s simple and agentless approach, unlike competing solutions, does not require any special coding skills, removing some of the most significant barriers to automation across IT. From deployment and configuration to rolling upgrades, by adding Ansible to its hybrid management portfolio, Red Hat will help customers to:

Deploy and manage applications across private and public clouds.

Speed service delivery through DevOps initiatives.

Streamline OpenStack installations and upgrades.

Accelerate container adoption by simplifying orchestration and configuration.

The upstream Ansible project is one of the most popular open source automation projects on GitHub with an active and highly engaged community, encompassing nearly 1,200 contributors. Ansible automation is being used by a growing number of Fortune 100 companies, powering large and complex private cloud environments, and the company has received several notable accolades, including a 2015 InfoWorld Bossie Award, recognizing the best open source datacenter and cloud software.

Regardless, though, of my personal preferences, these are good news for configuration management and automation.