Measure Anything, Measure Everything « Code as Craft
the classic Etsy pro-metrics “measure everything” post. Some good basic rules and mindset
Testing Your Automation [slides]
Test-driven infrastructure, using Chef — slides from Big Ruby 2013. Tools used: foodcritic (lol), Chefspec, minitest-chef-handler, fauxhai, cucumber chef. This is really good to see — TDD applied to ops. Video at: http://confreaks.com/videos/2309-bigruby2013-testing-your-automation-ttd-for-chef-cookbooks
(tags: devops ops chef automation testing tdd infrastructure provisioning deployment)
Meet the nice-guy lawyers who want $1,000 per worker for using scanners | Ars Technica
Great investigative journalism, interviewing the legal team behind the current big patent-troll shakedown; that on scanning documents with a button press, using a scanner attached to a network. They express whole-hearted belief in the legality of their actions, unsurprisingly — they’re exactly what you think they’d be like (via Nelson)
(tags: via:nelson ethics business legal patents swpats patent-trolls texas shakedown)