If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. - Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey A big part of scaling up an engineering team is getting serious about monitoring and alerts.

In this previous post, I chronicled my evolving understanding of PaaS and how it has taught me the virtues of treating your Platform as an Application (PaaA). Here I documented what I believe a self-respecting platform application should do. In this post I'm going to describe how I've seen PaaA help solve the Dev and Ops "problem"...

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Lennart Poettering's (the guy behind systemd) opinion on how nowadays distribution and packaging systems should be completely remodelled... You might consider this post heretical, absurd or ingenious - so please read at your own risk ;-)

Even Thoughtworks Chief Scientist spends much more time on automatiing quite simple things with Chef. Not really new stuff for us, but still an interesting read.

TOSCA is intended to be the first standard to describe IT services that go beyond infrastructure as a service, i.e., describing service templates across *aaS layers and connecting them to the resource abstraction layer. Service templates can describe the topology of complex services and applications.