IS YOUR SYSADMIN DUMBER THAN A HAMSTER?

John Arundel: In this talk, John speaks about Puppet and Chef covering some or more of the following topics: "Why aren't sysadmins as smart as developers?", "How do you build 100 servers in a day?", "How to automate the dumb stuff"... View the podcast here...

   DRUNKEN BUILD MONKEY

Julian Simpson: For quite some time, system admins have had to develop their own scripts and tools to assist in automating common tasks such as configuration management and system updates. But as networks scale and reach outside their firewall, custom tools become another serious issue to handle. View the podcast here...