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Geekwire reports that Puppet, the company behind the eponymous configuration management software, is set to expand to Seattle, Sydney and Singapore. The company already has offices in Belfast and Portland.
Chef, perhaps Puppet's great rival in the burgeoning field known as DevOps, is headquartered in Seattle, which sets up an interesting battle for talent over the next few years. A lot of Bay Area companies have opened up offices in Seattle after tiring of the talent wars in California [...]
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If you have used either or both of Puppet or Chef, how has it worked out for you? If you've tried both, which did you decide to use and what influenced your decision?
(Score: 3, Informative) by mr_mischief on Friday May 12 2017, @09:32PM (5 children)
Houston has a low cost of living for a city its size. It has more to recommend it.
Houston's home to Rice University, the University of Houston system, Texas Southern University, University of St. Thomas, University of Texas' MD Anderson Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Strayer University, and Houston Baptist University. Schools in other fairly nearby towns include Lamar University in Beaumont, UT Austin, Texas A&M in College Station, Texas A&M Galveston campus, University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Prairie View A&M in Prairie View, Baylor University in Waco, and Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches. A little farther out are UT Dallas, UT San Antonio, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, TCU in Dallas, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas A&M at Dallas, University of Texas at Arlington, andTexas Tech in Tyler. Lots of other schools are around, too.
There's a world class medical center featuring many medical schools, hospital systems, and medical research facilities.
The energy industry is a huge user of IT services, and Houston is the energy company capital of the world.
The Port of Houston is the busiest port by tonnage and second busiest port by dollar value of items shipped of any in the US.
The public transit system is poor and the people-moving industry is ripe for disruption.
There's hosting space around town. SoftLayer, Cyrus One, and others have data centers.
There's warehouse space everywhere.
There are two international airports in town. There's IAH (George H.W. Bush Intercontinental Airport) on the north end and HOU (William P. Hobby) on the south end.
There's the Johnson Space Center which has quite a bit of technical staff and contractors.
There are various software companies, Texas Instruments, a Toshiba facility, and more. Compaq used to be in Houston before the merger with HP.
The weather's nice most of the year, and there's air conditioning the rest of the year.
It's the most diverse city in the country.
What it doesn't have yet is the highly competitive tech labor market and tons of venture capital in the pure tech play space, but it's got the ingredients to make a couple of early movers in that style of company really happy. It has the kindling ready. It just needs a spark.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday May 13 2017, @03:46AM (1 child)
All that is true, but Houston's a conservative town, man. As a tech guy looking to relocate to Texas, I'd go for Austin. Much more progressive, with lots of interesting currents of culture and tech flowing through the area thanks to SXSW and it's many offshoots.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by mr_mischief on Tuesday May 16 2017, @04:50PM
Houston's on the blue side of purple, and especially in the city center. The further out in certain suburbs you go, the more conservative it is. That's true in many places.
Austin is pretty well liberal through and through outside the capitol. Now if we can just continue to pull that building towards some sense...
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday May 13 2017, @06:03AM (2 children)
The public transit system is poor and the people-moving industry is ripe for disruption.
As in needing a replacement that engineers can be helpful with (ie job..) ?
It's the most diverse city in the country.
In ideas or race tension?
Then it is of course Texas which has it's own set of values perhaps not so compatible with free thinkers?
Having a recent statute banning the sales of dildos and other sexual toys is a sign screaming "HEY RETARDS HERE!". Alabama sure is competing in this field.
(Score: 2) by mr_mischief on Monday May 15 2017, @07:31PM (1 child)
Yes, "ripe for disruption" means there's an opportunity, as always.
I don't know the racial tension of which you speak. Houston is by many measures the most racially diverse city in the US.
This recent statute banning dildos in Texas needs a citation, please. Are you calling 1973 recent or its resounding defeat in the courts in 2008?
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday May 16 2017, @02:22PM
Yes, "ripe for disruption" means there's an opportunity, as always.
In what way is the current system inadequate? and in what way should it be improved?
I don't know the racial tension of which you speak. Houston is by many measures the most racially diverse city in the US.
And this works without a unproportional number robberies, assaults and rape compared with other similar sized cities?
This recent statute banning dildos in Texas needs a citation, please. Are you calling 1973 recent or its resounding defeat in the courts in 2008?
The defeat in courts in 2008 probably put a final (for now) lid on it. But it shouldn't need to dealt by courts at all. It's completely private matter. What happens between consenting adults in private areas is of no business to others. Or in this case between one adult an a machine that doesn't even a AI.