Joe Arnold's Blog

The videos of Devops Days finally got posted to InfoQ. Here is the panel discussion that I participated in with Ben Black, Adrian Cole and Justin Dean (moderated by John Willis). We discussed how developers are using cloud computing platforms and the fuzzy line between development and operations.

Over the past week, we’ve (Cloudscaling) been going back and forth with a client on an integration point. Each team has been volleying back and forth multiple, multi-page documents of product plans, technical specs and user workflows. In the end, those documents were useful, but not for planning purposes. They were incredibly useful to share [...]

“Stay one trick ahead.” My debut as an author.

…and spend the entire evening in socks laying out post it notes all over the floor. I’m pleased to report no games of Twister ™ ensued. I’m a huge fan of using “cards” as tasks and making planning processes very tactile, visual and interactive experiences. It’s a lot more engaging than say, the overhead projector [...]

This will be my last week at Yahoo!. I’m taking up a position at Engine Yard to help scale a company that’s making Ruby (on Rails) scale. This also means it’s my last week in Bangalore. I’ll be leaving Saturday morning to head back to San Francisco. Please ping me if you want to meet [...]