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Installing and configuring multi-node systems are common enterprise tasks that can require a tremendous amount of time and resources. As technology continues to evolve, so will the need to effectively deploy and manage these systems. Chef and CloudBolt work together to simplify the installation and increase the scalability of these complex systems.

Mark Mann

In today’s always-connected environment, every company needs to have a strong online presence in order to stay competitive. This shift has been keenly felt at NCR, where over a century of innovation has been built on the hardware they provide to their customers.

Nick Rycar

We are proud to announce some major improvements recently implemented in InSpec. Jerry Aldrich and I, two members of Chef’s InSpec Engineering team, have added two features which considerably improve performance when used with the Windows platform. Backend Caching Improvements First, we have added backend caching for commands.

Jared Quick

Hello and Happy New Year Chef’s! It is 2018 and what better way to start the new year off than with an exciting cookbook release. I’m happy to announce that we have just released version 5.4.0 of the sql_server cookbook. Now, I know you’re thinking that this is not a major release.

John Snow

At Chef, we believe that the most successful organizations are those that can outperform their peers on metrics of speed, efficiency, and risk. While there are clear benefits to be had by making measurable improvements on any of these outcomes, taken individually those benefits can only go so far.

Nick Rycar

Over the past few weeks, I have shared posts that describe the various tracks we are targeting for ChefConf this May 22-25 in Chicago.

Nathen Harvey
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If you develop or support applications on Windows, chances are that you have crossed paths or even worked deeply with Microsoft’s SQL Server database. In the 14 years I spent as a .Net developer, its by far the database I worked with most extensively. I’ve been using MySQL for all of my .

Matt Wrock

In 2017, we published more than 200 blog posts, highlighting major releases and announcements, partnerships and integrations, skill-building and how to articles, and more. Here are the top ten most viewed posts of 2017.

Jamie Bright

The Chef project has had an incredibly busy 2017 – and thank you all for your help and support! Our Community On GitHub, we’ve seen 3,733 Pull Requests, from 618 people. More than 50% of those Pull Requests were from non-Chef employees, which continues to amaze and delight me.

Thom May