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1. Business at web speed Seven years ago, Steve Souders and Jesse Robbins came to the realization that they both worked within "tribes" that, while ostensibly quite different, were talking about many of the same things. Front-end developers and engineers were figuring out how to make web pages faster and more reliable, and web operations folks were making deployments faster and more resilient. So goes the tale of how Velocity came to be. As to where it is headed now,Courtney Nash describes the present direction, emerging themes, and a vision ofhow today's coded business operates. 2. Juggling multiple Elasticsearch instances Elasticsearch is a distributed search engine built on top of Apache Lucene. Etsy uses it in a number of different configurations: for Logstash, powering user-facing search on some large indexes, some analytics usage, and many internal applications. Occasionally, Etsy has more instances of Elasticsearch than physical hosts—for good reasons. Shikhar Bhushan shares their rationale. 3. Webinar – Business at Web Speed with the continuous delivery of applications & infrastructure If your business is delivered via technology (and what business isn't these days?), your success depends on how often, and how safely, you can improve upon the end-user experience. Join Chef's Adam Jacobs and O'Reilly'sCourtney Nash as they launch a 6-part series of webcasts that illuminate and explore a new way of doing business. We call it the "Coded Business" or "Business at Web Speed." How quickly you adapt could determine the future of your business. Learn more → 4. DevOps: the way and the light This is always worth repeating: in today's society it is essential for governments (and other organizations) to successfully operate large-scale services that are simple to use and will work effectively. Breakage, at this scale, is disastrous. JennyDevOpsreminds us of the sheer beauty and necessity of DevOps: essentially it makes the world a happier place… 5. How to make a performance budget "Budget" can be an irksome word, one that triggers nagging thoughts, but can also be quite wonderful if you are indeed "on budget" or better yet, "under budget." But you need to have the budget to begin with. Daniel Mall outlines all the steps, constraints, concerns, and even offers a template to get you started. 6. So long, Dr. Dobbs Dr. Dobb’s Editor-In-Chief, Andrew Binstock shared what would be sad news for many of us this week. He was saying farewell. After 38 years, Dr. Dobb’s—an institution in the software development community—is saying goodbye. Alex Williamsreflects on the news and what it means to us. If you were among those who grew up scouring the magazine's pages for the latest computer and programming news, be sure to read Binstock's poignant and thoughtful farewell. 7. Open source APM: can you do it yourself? How difficult is it really to build an APM on your own? James Billingham investigates the complexity inherent in building an application performance management solution, and the capabilities of the open source tools that currently exist to embark on such an endeavor. 8. Become the leader you aspire to be When Slideshare called out Adam Christian's Velocity presentation, The Black Magic of Leadership, as one of the 3 best leadership decks, we agreed that it's worth another look, even if you saw it at the conference. Learn what not to do, if you want to avoid being the project manager from hell, and how to get into the startup mindset. 9. Oops! A small correction Last week we thanked the good people at Chef for the SysAdvent calendar, and it turns out we were wrong. Yes, they are still good people, but not the ones responsible for the 12-days-of-ops articles. Chris Webber organized the project on his own time, managing a large group of independent editors and contributors. We extend our thanks to all of them for this excellent collection of articles, such asDevOps for Horses: Moving an Enterprise Application to the Cloud.