About

Welcome to Melting Pot Ops! You're probably wondering what this is all about, let me try to tell you.


We're a team of eight Systems Administrators/Operators/System Managers. We come from a variety of technical backgrounds, and have varying levels of experience. But that's not really where the melting pot bit comes in — we're trying to bridge the gaps between traditional operations and DevOps, between old-school sys-admins and infrastructure as a service, between hand-built and maintained systems and automated configuration, between waterfall planning and agile processes.

We try to think a little differently. We want to explore new ideas and new ways of doing things. Mostly though, we want to provide rock solid infrastructure, monitoring, and service management to our dev teams and to our end users.

As you read Melting Pot Ops, you might see:

• Reviews of books, courseware, hardware, and software that we've really liked.
• Experience reports for things we've tried (both successes and failures).
• Recaps of presentations we've made in house and at conferences.
• Random other stuff as needed — we'll try to stay away from lolcats though.

One of the reasons we decided to start this blog, and that our management decided to approve it, was to get feedback from the big blue room outside our cubicles and data centers. Please feel free to drop a comment or two as you read. We hope this becomes a conversation.

Thanks for coming by to visit. We hope you like what you read and come back often.