DevOps

Ex-Microsoft engineers land $3M to launch distributed computing platform Edge Delta

by James Thorne on July 31, 2019July 31, 2019 at 11:04 amComment

Edge Delta, a Seattle-based startup that’s building a distributed analytics platform, raised $3 million in seed funding from lead investors MaC Venture Capital and Amity Ventures. The freshly-launched company was… Read More

Puppet launches new product line to help companies get the most out of their DevOps efforts

by Tom Krazit on October 9, 2018October 9, 2018 at 10:34 amComment

Building on the work done by its most recent acquisition, Puppet plans to announce a brand new product line Tuesday at its Puppetize Live conference that promises to help engineering… Read More

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Five experts explain how software development and operations teams are adjusting to the rapid changes caused by cloud computing

by Tom Krazit on August 19, 2018August 19, 2018 at 12:04 pmComment

While software continues to eat the world, the philosophies and tactics used to build that software are constantly changing. Getting from idea to working software has never been easy, and… Read More

Puppet raises $42M to fuel its software development technology for the cloud, hopes to be cash-flow positive in a year

by Tom Krazit on June 27, 2018June 27, 2018 at 10:42 amComment

At one point three years ago, Portland’s Puppet thought it was headed toward an IPO. That did not happen, but CEO Sanjay Mirchandani says the DevOps toolmaker is back on… Read More

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit FAQ: What to know for Wednesday’s big technical conference

by John Cook on June 26, 2018July 22, 2018 at 9:13 amComment

Planning to attend the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit this Wednesday? Here’s everything you need to know. If you still have questions about our biggest technical conference of the year — drawing… Read More

Seattle DevOps vets launch Sodo, a startup that helps companies modernize their software teams

by Tom Krazit on April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 at 9:13 amComment

Two longtime Seattle-area engineers are teaming up to launch Sodo, a new professional-development startup that wants to help software development teams get up and running using modern software development techniques… Read More

Citing need for “engineering execution,” Chef gives control of engineering to its co-founder and CTO while the sales department reorganizes

by Tom Krazit on August 8, 2017August 8, 2017 at 1:41 pm1 Comment

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

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Want to learn how to release quality software at a faster rate? Listen to Heptio’s Joe Beda

by Tom Krazit on July 5, 2017July 5, 2017 at 10:43 amComment

“DevOps” is a word that gets tossed casually around cloud computing circles without deeper examination of what it really means. But when you break it down, the concept is simple,… Read More

Shippable releases a server version of its devops tool, giving on-premise teams new tricks

by Tom Krazit on June 8, 2017June 7, 2017 at 10:11 pmComment

Seattle-based devops startup Shippable plans to release the server version of its flagship product Thursday, giving IT shops looking to improve the efficiency of their development process an on-premise version… Read More

HashiCorp’s Mitchell Hashimoto: Security needs to be part of your devops team

by Tom Krazit on June 1, 2017June 1, 2017 at 7:46 amComment

Speed is an extremely important component of modern application development, but sometimes when you’re running fast to get out the front door you leave your keys dangling in the lock.… Read More

Chef tightens the links between Chef Automate and its open-source DevOps products

by Tom Krazit on May 23, 2017May 23, 2017 at 7:35 amComment

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

Geek of the Week: Engineer Iris Carrera ‘lives and breathes’ DevOps at Base2 Solutions

by Kurt Schlosser on May 5, 2017May 5, 2017 at 2:32 pm1 Comment

As an infrastructure engineer at Base2 Solutions, an engineering consulting firm based in downtown Bellevue, Wash., Iris Carrera said she “lives and breathes DevOps.” Carrera, who is GeekWire’s latest Geek… Read More

Container-security startup Twistlock secures $17M in new funding for Portland expansion

by Tom Krazit on April 25, 2017April 25, 2017 at 1:19 pmComment

Twistlock has raised $17 million in new Series B funding to fuel future growth, and it plans to make that money go as far as it can by searching for… Read More

Techstars grad Stackery raises cash from Voyager, aiming to disrupt DevOps cloud infrastructure market with serverless toolset

by Monica Nickelsburg on April 21, 2017April 21, 2017 at 9:36 amComment

Before even graduating from the Techstars Seattle 2017 class, Stackery CEO Nate Taggart had a check in hand — and not just the $120,000 that startups get when they join the… Read More

Ex-Google execs who pioneered Kubernetes launch Heptio cloud tech startup with $8.5M investment

by Dan Richman on November 17, 2016November 17, 2016 at 8:14 amComment

Two founders of the Google-based Kubernetes project, Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, have formed Heptio, a Seattle company backed by an $8.5 million Series A investment from the Accel venture… Read More

How to maximize your pay in IT and DevOps: New study reveals the most lucrative jobs

by Dan Richman on August 24, 2016August 24, 2016 at 8:43 amComment

Attention, DevOps workers: If you’re seeking the best-paid position, don’t answer to the title “system administrator.” Though the jobs may carry identical responsibilities, a system administrator most often makes $75,000-$100,000 a year in… Read More

Amazon Web Services specialist Engine Yard reaches ‘huge milestone’ with new version of AWS orchestration product

by Dan Richman on August 3, 2016August 3, 2016 at 12:37 pm 2 Comments

Engine Yard, a San Francisco-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) company, has released version 5 of its eponymous development environment — a “huge milestone” that supports Docker containers and the most… Read More

DevOps survey: High-performing IT organizations deploy code 200 times more frequently

by Dan Richman on June 22, 2016June 22, 2016 at 1:09 pmComment

High-performing IT organizations deploy apps and software updates 200 times more frequently than low performers, with lead times that are 2,555 times faster, according to the just-released fifth annual State of DevOps Report,… Read More

Docker marks rapid growth of software containers, unveils big upgrade at DockerCon 2016

by Dan Richman on June 20, 2016June 22, 2016 at 3:43 pmComment

Updated 12:20 p.m.: Containerized software technology company Docker opened its annual DockerCon convention in downtown Seattle this morning, announcing a new version of its platform and a series of milestones that… Read More

Chef takes ‘big risk’ with release of Habitat, an open-source project for application management

by Dan Richman on June 14, 2016June 14, 2016 at 11:09 am1 Comment

Chef, the Seattle-based DevOps automation company, today announced the release of Habitat, an open-source project that lets applications self-organize and self-configure. Habitat renders apps independent of infrastructure, which simplifies running them… Read More

Chef and Microsoft team up to enhance Azure’s automation

by Blair Hanley Frank on February 23, 2015February 23, 2015 at 6:03 amComment

Microsoft and Chef announced a partnership today focused on helping businesses automate their cloud workloads and move them into the Azure cloud. The partnership is built on a year’s worth… Read More

Amazon Web Services vet scores $2.8M from Andreessen Horowitz and others for hot Seattle startup Distelli

by John Cook on January 20, 2015January 19, 2015 at 8:49 pm 2 Comments

Rahul Singh spent eight years at Amazon working on key platform technologies that helped power Amazon Web Services through its early stages of growth. Singh, who started his career as… Read More