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Aliza Earnshaw

Aliza Earnshaw

Aliza Earnshaw started writing about technology as a freelancer during the dot-com and telecom boom. She joined the Portland Business Journal as its technology reporter just as the dot-com boom was becoming the dot-com bust. Aliza's appetite for tech startups led her to join one in 2009. She started working at Puppet in 2013, writing customer stories and editing whatever she can get her hands on.

Digital transformation and DevOps: get real business results, faster

by Aliza Earnshaw | June 30, 2017
The need for digital transformation drives many DevOps initiatives. And transformational leaders are a key driver of DevOps success.

Cloud portability gives you more workload flexibility

by Aliza Earnshaw | March 31, 2017
If you want complete workload flexibility, one issue you should be thinking about is cloud portability: security, costs & ability to scale as needed.

How Puppet helps government agencies with STIG compliance

by Aliza Earnshaw | March 10, 2017
Complex security regulations are difficult to comply with — and it's expensive to fail. Hear how Puppet brought one agency from 30% compliance to 98%.

DevOps and the CIO: Advice from a finance CIO & CTO

by Aliza Earnshaw | February 14, 2017
If you want your technology to give you a strategic advantage, you should be promoting a DevOps culture and DevOps practices at your organization.

Salesforce.com: IT automation at scale, DevOps and Puppet

by Aliza Earnshaw | January 6, 2017
Puppet supports infrastructure as code & other DevOps practices, which in turn support billions of transactions per day at Salesforce.com.

Puppet community MVP Rob Nelson on learning Puppet

by Aliza Earnshaw | November 14, 2016
Rob describes how he learned Puppet and brought it to his workplace. Plus the benefits of belonging to the Puppet community & other tech communities.

PuppetConf speaker Grace Andrews on getting up & running with Puppet Enterprise — fast!

by Aliza Earnshaw | October 5, 2016
Grace Andrews, technical solutions engineer at Puppet, will show you how to install Puppet Enterprise & manage key resources in under an hour.

PuppetConf speaker Marc Cluet on DevOps, dynamic platforms and Puppet

by Aliza Earnshaw | September 27, 2016
Marc Cluet has deep roots in DevOps and software development. At PuppetConf, he'll talk about service discovery and Puppet.

Chocolatey creator Rob Reynolds to speak at PuppetConf 2016

by Aliza Earnshaw | August 26, 2016
Meet Rob Reynolds, creator of Chocolatey, the package manager for Windows and speaker at PuppetConf 2016.

DevOps salaries: our 2016 report reveals salary trends are up

by Aliza Earnshaw | August 23, 2016
Learn how your DevOps practitioner or DevOps manager salary compares to DevOps salaries in your market, in this new survey of DevOps salary trends.

Containerization and Puppet: Scott Coulton at PuppetConf 2016

by Aliza Earnshaw | July 13, 2016
A preview of Scott Coulton's talk on containers & configuration management at PuppetConf 2016, and learn about his book on containerization & Puppet.

Learn to use command line, Vim and Git with our new guide

by Aliza Earnshaw | June 24, 2016
Want to learn Puppet, but don't know how to use command line, Vim or Git? Here's an ebook to help you.

IT Automation Drives Growth for Fulcrum Technologies

by Aliza Earnshaw | March 24, 2015
A SaaS company shouldn't hand-configure systems. Puppet Enterprise lets Fulcrum automate customer setup & management, innovate & get ahead of the competition.

Scaling in Minutes (not Months) with Puppet Enterprise

by Aliza Earnshaw | March 4, 2015
Treating infrastructure as code makes Heartland Payment Systems deployments uneventful, freeing ops to do more interesting & strategic projects.

Disney's DevOps Journey: A DevOps Enterprise Summit Reprise

by Aliza Earnshaw | February 24, 2015
Jason Cox was a huge hit at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2014. Video hasn't been published, so we reprise Jason's story of DevOps at Disney in this blog post.

Getty Images: Test-Driven Dev, Continuous Delivery & Better Business Decisions

by Aliza Earnshaw | February 2, 2015
Getty Images uses Puppet Enterprise to standardize IT across all its different photo sites, and deliver product innovations more frequently into a competitive market.

9 Practices to Launch Continuous Delivery in Your Organization

by Aliza Earnshaw | January 29, 2015
Continuous delivery requires tools, processes and practices to let you release software more frequently, with fewer errors — just what every business needs. Here's a list of what you need for continuous delivery success.

How Much Do DevOps Engineers Make? DevOps Salary Report Tells All!

by Aliza Earnshaw | January 21, 2015
Curious about how your salary stacks up to what others in your field are paid? The new DevOps Salary Report offers interesting demographic info from our 2014 State of DevOps report.

Top Benefits of Continuous Delivery: An Overview

by Aliza Earnshaw | December 15, 2014
Learn about the top benefits of continuous delivery, and then go to the linked white paper to get info on the tools for launching continuous delivery in your organization.

Puppet + H.P. Lovecraft + Markov Chain = Awesome

by Aliza Earnshaw | December 5, 2014
Beats SSH and a for loop every time.

Why Automation? Predictability, Consistency & the Confidence to Innovate

by Aliza Earnshaw | December 4, 2014
With the right automation in place, you'll spend less time fixing bugs, and more time developing the next feature, or tuning a feature according to user feedback.

DevOps and Change Agents: Common Themes

by Aliza Earnshaw | December 3, 2014
Shifting to the DevOps way of working takes a shift in processes, decision-making, measures of success and more.

Banish (Okay, Reduce) Downtime with IT Automation

by Aliza Earnshaw | November 21, 2014
Downtime is a problem — and it's also a symptom of existing issues in IT processes and architecture. We look at some issues that lead to outages, and how automation tools can help solve them.

Change Agents of Ops: What it Takes

by Aliza Earnshaw | November 6, 2014
Hear from Sam Eaton, director of engineering operations at Yelp, about getting buy-in when there's resistance to change.

New Handbook: Five Things To Automate with Puppet Enterprise

by Aliza Earnshaw | October 3, 2014
A new, free resource for automating some of the most common system administration tasks.

PuppetConf 2014, Day 1: Tips, Treats and Tweets

by Aliza Earnshaw | September 24, 2014
A quick wrap-up of the first day at PuppetConf 2014, complete with attendees' tweets.

Best Practices for Building Puppet Modules

by Aliza Earnshaw | February 27, 2014
This three-part blog series by Puppet pro services engineer Gary Larizza offers helpful tips for module structure, using roles and profiles, and creating dynamic environments with R10k.

Sysadmin Sci-Fi Friday: When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

by Aliza Earnshaw | February 7, 2014
Ever notice that sysadmin characters keep popping up in sci-fi? We're kicking off Sysadmin Sci-Fi Friday with Cory Doctorow's classic tale.

How To Install Puppet on a Virtual Private Server from DigitalOcean

by Aliza Earnshaw | January 29, 2014
You can manage your DigitalOcean cloud servers with Puppet — here's how. #EmbraceCloudAutomation

DevOps in Big Finance Companies: Does it Help?

by Aliza Earnshaw | November 15, 2013
A CTO in the finance industry questions how far DevOps can go in an enterprise company.

DevOps Is Everywhere

by Aliza Earnshaw | September 24, 2013
Wherever you find IT operations, you'll find people adopting DevOps practices and culture, according to members of the LinkedIn DevOps group.

Stop Hiring DevOps Experts and Start Growing Them: Jez Humble at PuppetConf

by Aliza Earnshaw | August 23, 2013

Service Virtualization: It’s Not That Kind of Virtualization

by Aliza Earnshaw | August 9, 2013
What's service virtualization? It's the simulation of a complex application, database or other computing service in a testing environment.

Continuous Delivery Is Good for Your Business

by Aliza Earnshaw | August 2, 2013
Continuous delivery makes it feasible to introduce new features and functions quickly and reliably. It's also a competitive advantage.

Build a Toolbox for Continuous Delivery

by Aliza Earnshaw | July 25, 2013
Companies that want to introduce new features to customers quickly are either already practicing continuous delivery or working towards it — or they should be.

5 KPIs that Make the Case for DevOps

by Aliza Earnshaw | July 19, 2013
Could DevOps ideas be the key to a happier, more productive working life? Here are some KPIs used by people who use DevOps practices.

DevOps Solves Business Problems: Gene Kim’s Top Aha Moments

by Aliza Earnshaw | July 18, 2013
Gene Kim talks about the times he saw how DevOps solves serious business problems, while making life better for people in IT operations.

Continuous Delivery, DevOps & Jez Humble: It’s All About the Customer

by Aliza Earnshaw | July 9, 2013

Continuous Integration (CI) Success Depends on Automation

by Aliza Earnshaw | June 13, 2013
Continuous delivery enables you to new & awesome features to your customers more frequently, and continuous integration is key.

How Do You Make $100K in IT? Look to the DevOps Shops

by Aliza Earnshaw | June 5, 2013
Want to make a better salary in IT? Look for a company that recognizes the business value of DevOps.

What Is a DevOps Engineer?

by Aliza Earnshaw | May 23, 2013
Demand for DevOps people is growing. But what is a DevOps engineer, anyway? How do you refactor yourself to meet the demand?