Rob Hirschfeld

Rob has been leading DevOps automation since filing patents for the first virtualized clouds in 2000. He founded RackN to help companies be both collaborative and autonomous with system automation. They focus on providing distributed IaC pipelines for cloud, edge and enterprise infrastructure. He is also a frequent community speaker and leader of the weekly the2030.cloud virtual hallway discussions.

Are LLMs Leading DevOps Into a Tech Debt Trap?

Some of the most alluring uses of LLMs could lead to terrible outcomes for enterprises and their DevOps and platform…

10 months ago

Infrastructure as Code and Six Key Automation Concepts

This summer, I walked into an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) flame war because I was blissfully unaware of just how…

4 years ago

SRE vs. DevOps vs. Cloud Native: The Server Cage Match

This post supports my DevOpsDays Austin Presentation on May 4 I don’t believe in DevOps shaming. Our community seems compelled…

7 years ago

How the Lure of an ‘Easy Button’ Installer Traps Projects

As preamble for this post, I wrote about the Unicorn Installer challenge. The challenge is that user needs are too…

8 years ago

It’s Time to Slay the Universal Installer Unicorn

While many people want a universal "easy button installer,” they also want it to work on their unique snowflake of…

8 years ago

5 Key Aspects of High Fidelity DevOps

As much as we talk about how we should have shared goals spanning Dev and Ops, it's not nearly as…

8 years ago

What If We Had Git for DevOps?

I used to hate Git. Compared to my previous source control systems (SVN, SourceForge and floppies), it was cryptic, opaque…

8 years ago

DevOps and the Challenge with Services

At RackN, we've been working for years to make DevOps portable across platforms. For us, that means the ability to…

8 years ago

Two paths to metal devops: cloud-like API driven & cluster building

I've been seeing a rising interest in metal DevOps fueled by containers and scale-out data center platforms (like Hadoop, Ceph &…

9 years ago

Are VMs becoming El Caminos?

In 2010, it looked as if virtualization had won. We expected all servers to virtualize workloads and the primary question…

9 years ago