SoFloPHP Boca (DevOps or Dev Oops!)

Staging environments are an essential part of the development cycle. In staging the code will be tested in the exact same conditions as it would be used in production. There are a many tools for testing correctness, behavior, and even user interactions. Development environments are typically too slow for testing anything more complex than code units. Developers also don’t want to test the application while it is under load in production. A staging environment allows us to test these things and makes the deployment more secure and reliable.

In this talk Angel Ramirez & Juan Lopez are going to cover the importance of having a proper staging environment, explain high level concepts about setting up the environment, and demonstrate these using tools like Chef, Knife, and Cloud Services.

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Angel Ramirez is an enthusiastic Web Developer experienced in several scripting languages. Currently he is working as a Software Engineer for Fotobar. He loves coding best practices, has a focus on full stack development with PHP, and is a Laravel "fanboy". Angel is passionate about programming, math, uncovering new challenges, and PHP and general FOSS communities. Angel is ready to write code at any time, just ask him to solve a problem!

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Juan Lopez is currently a Software Engineer for Polaroid Fotobar. His passion for computers and programming came for the fears surrounding the Y2K (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem). Since the early 2000′s He has been a loyal Linux User (tried 20+ distros) and currently find himself installing Ubuntu everywhere. In his early beginnings, he got into the IT world working as a Network Tech and SysAdmin at a number of different companies, from small to multinational. Even though IT was his first focus into the industry, he was always attracted to Security and Programming.

Today he finds himself writing mostly JS, some Python, doing devops from time to time, and playing with nodebots (http://nodebots.io/) !