Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for March 20th through April 1st:

• Deployment management design patterns for DevOps – Blog – dev2ops – Solving Large Scale Web Operations and DevOps Problems – But where are the design patterns embodying best practices for managing software operations? Where is the catalog of design patterns for managing software deployments? What is needed is a set of design patterns for managing the operation of a software system in the large. Design patterns like these would be useful to those that automate any of these tasks and will facilitate those tools developers who have adopted the "infrastructure as code" philosophy.
• Virtualization Management, Optimization and Automation Appliances | VMTurbo – A white paper by VMTurbo (requires registration): Operations Management in the Age of Virtualization http://www.vmturbo.com/
• InfoQ: Industrial Strength Groovy – RT @glaforge: Watching "Industrial Strength Groovy" by Paul King http://bit.ly/9HrXDS (infoQ)-> excellent!