"Fixing the Flying Plane: A Production DevOps Team", by Calvin Domenico, Marie Hetrick, Elijah Aydnwylde, J. Brandon Arsenault, Patrick McAndrew, Alastair Firth, and Jesse Campbell, Scholastic, Inc.
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At Scholastic, Inc., the Web Hosting Department practices DevOps in action, leveraging both their development abilities and their sysadmin skills to improve and modify the behavior of software using ops and infrastructure tweaks. A diverse but very tight-knit group of ten, the group faces the challenges of delivering hosted SaaS (Software as a Service) to a growing customer base, using software that was originally designed for client-server local installations. Recently the group designed and implemented a new datacenter utilizing infrastructure, virtualization, and custom development to maximize the department's offerings.