I've been working with Platform as a Service products for almost 3 years. I truly believe that an introduction of PaaS solutions was a breakthrough for web development.
There are many online services that provide an efficient and relatively cheap entry-level PaaS (e.g. Heroku, EngineYard), but what about self-hosted alternatives? Do they exist? Are they a good call?
Continue readingChef is a framework written in Ruby, and partially in Erlang (Chef Server). It provides an API for numerous system services. With Chef, your infrastructure can be expressed as object-oriented code that is versionable, testable, and repeatable. One of the main ideas of Chef developers was to bury the walls that exist between software development and system administration, allowing them to bring system configuration to a higher level.
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