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New Tech Talk: Managing Application Ecosystems
edit Posted by Sean Beckett on Thursday July 15, 2010 at 03:14PM

Daniel Lieberman of BitPusher says that ten years from now, much of what we think of as "operations" will be obsolete. The current trends in operations automation, reliability engineering and cloud computing will combine and mature into a nearly-commoditized blend of operations and infrastructure. Today, the practical impact of these trends is that there are new tools and service offerings which add more complexity to operations practices, but if used well allow operations teams to manage some aspects of their environments more holistically, and sometimes do a better job with fewer resources. This talk provides a snapshot of what operations practices look like during this period of transition.

See all our talks at http://pivotallabs.com/talks

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oneforty Seeks Rails Developer in Cambridge, MA
edit Posted by Sean Beckett on Thursday July 15, 2010 at 02:54PM

At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide our clients is helping them interview and hire. Pivotal Labs and our clients place a strong emphasis on Agile development and its many aspects: Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, rapid iterations, and frequent refactoring.

oneforty, a Cambridge, MA company, is looking for a Rails Developer to join their team. The full job posting follows.

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New Tech Talk: Agile the Pivotal Way
edit Posted by Sean Beckett on Monday July 12, 2010 at 07:16PM

Ian McFarland, Principal and VP of Technology for Pivotal Labs, reprises his popular RailsConf 2010 talk. Ian describes the technical and social aspects of how Pivotal practices agile software development.

"We’ve been practicing these methods for over 10 years, so we’ve learned a thing or two about how it all works. We want to share what we’ve learned...and we think it can make your own work more sustainable, delightful, and productive."

Slides available at: http://cot.ag/cHHsCi

See all our talks at http://pivotallabs.com/talks

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SideReel seeks Rails Developers in San Francisco
edit Posted by Sean Beckett on Thursday July 08, 2010 at 04:28PM

At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide our clients is helping them interview and hire. Pivotal Labs and our clients place a strong emphasis on Agile development and its many aspects: Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, rapid iterations, and frequent refactoring.

SideReel, a three-year-old San Francisco company, is looking for a Rails Developer to join their team. The full job posting follows.

At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide our clients is helping them interview and hire. Pivotal Labs and our clients place a strong emphasis on Agile development and its many aspects: Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, rapid iterations, and frequent refactoring.

TaskRabbit, based in San Francisco, is looking for a Rails Developer to double their development team. The full job posting follows.