Business application platform Progress is making an unspecified number of job cuts at Chef after completing its previously announced $220 million acquisition of the Seattle-based enterprise automation technology company this… Read More
Updated below with details from interview with Chef CEO Barry Crist. Business application platform Progress will acquire Seattle-based automation technology company Chef for $220 million in cash under a deal… Read More
Chef CEO Barry Crist delivered the opening ChefConf keynote address on video from his Seattle home on Tuesday morning, with a registered audience of nearly 4,000 people, about four times… Read More
Software engineers are powerful players in the technology industry. Typically, they exercise that power to negotiate sky-high salaries that companies competing in a tight labor market are eager to offer.… Read More
It’s a new era at Chef, and not just because the removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct has suddenly created a spectacular view from its Seattle waterfront headquarters. The 11-year-old… Read More
Deadlines have a way of getting your attention. On January 14th, 2020, Microsoft will stop providing security updates for Windows Server 2008, almost nine years after the last major update… Read More
Months after it overhauled its entire product strategy around its open-source principles, Chef has some new ideas to make money off the looming masses of cloud computing holdouts. Chef plans… Read More
Chef hopes to bring a little clarity to the future of its open-source and commercial software work Tuesday by taking a cue from the most successful open-source business model yet… Read More
Chef has tapped Brian Goldfarb, who has held prominent marketing roles inside several notable enterprise tech companies, as its newest chief marketing officer, the company plans to announce later on… Read More
After 10 years at the Seattle company he co-founded and helped steer through a rapidly changing market for enterprise technology, Chef CTO Adam Jacob is ready for a break. Jacob… Read More
As questions continue to swirl around the future of open-source software licensing and business models, Chef co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Adam Jacob wants to figure out a way to… Read More
At the peak of its power, open-source software is having an existential crisis. There’s no question that the concept of open-source software has revolutionized the enterprise software world, which spent… Read More
Seattle’s Chef is eliminating ten jobs as it reorganizes the company around the ongoing shift to cloud computing, GeekWire has learned. The ten positions involve a variety of roles across… Read More
With the appointment of three new executives, Chef believes it is most of the way through a year-long strategy shift that sets it up for the future with money in… Read More
Seattle’s Chef released three new infrastructure management tools Tuesday designed to help customers who adopted Chef for their on-premises servers chart a new course in Microsoft’s cloud. The Chef Automate… Read More
Simply automating your computing infrastructure won’t cut it anymore; forward-thinking software-development organizations need to automate their processes across the board in order to keep up. Following the appointment of a… Read More
Despite months of wake-up calls to cloud storage administrators about the consequences of insecure storage buckets lost in the shuffle, we keep hearing about companies inadvertently exposing sensitive data to… Read More
The dictionary defines art as “the expression or application of human creative skill or imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated… Read More
Last week we wrapped up a wild year for the Pacific Northwest’s top startups. Now it’s time to look ahead and see what’s on the horizon for the GeekWire 200, our… Read More
Chef’s Ken Cheney, who stepped in to run the Seattle DevOps startup’s sales organization in June after the departure of its leader, has left the company amid other changes in… Read More
Seattle DevOps startup Chef made several organizational changes this week, installing co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob as head of engineering and giving its chief marketing officer control of sales amid… Read More
Back in the day, there were software development teams, and there were operations teams, and they might say hello to each other a few times a year at the company… Read More
Nell Shamrell-Harrington isn’t your typical software engineer. She studied theater at the University of Puget Sound and uses those skills to talk about her work in open source governance at… Read More
Not quite a year after launching Chef Automate, cloud-based software development company Chef has improved support for InSpec and Habitat — its code testing and app building projects — within… Read More
Cloud computing is turning into a real business, but the pioneering work of the engineers and product teams at cloud companies is the reason for the economic opportunity. We’re proud… Read More
Rooftop decks. Mindfulness zones. Sports bars. This year’s finalists for the Geekiest Office Space in the GeekWire Awards have it all. These unique spaces create a powerful environment where workers… Read More
LAS VEGAS — This morning at the fifth annual re:Invent user’s conference, Seattle-based software-automation firm Chef announced that the full capabilities of its Automate commercial platform have been integrated into a new… Read More
Seattle tech vet and talent expert Kerry Van Voris has left her position as director of talent at Madrona Venture Group, GeekWire has learned. Van Voris came to the position in… Read More
High-tech cooking startup Sansaire is launching a Kickstarter campaign today for a smaller, WiFi-enabled sous vide cooking device. The Sansaire Delta, like its predecessor, heats water to precise temperatures for… Read More
When it comes to on-demand chef services in Seattle, there are a lot of cooks in the kitchen. Cozymeal, a platform that connects professional chefs with foodies for cooking classes… Read More