Once upon a time I had an opportunity to decide on a naming scheme. So I went round and asked my developers, who after all were the people who had to work with these names on a day-to-day basis, whether they preferred functional names (that is, names which represent, in some encoded form, the purpose … Read more
A domain-specific language makes a big difference in the amount of code you write. For example, you could argue that there’s not much difference between: chmod 640 /my/file and file { “/my/file”: mode => 640, } but there’s a great deal of difference between these: FILE=/my/file chmod 640 $FILE chown foo $FILE chgrp bar $FILE … Read more
I started using Puppet ahead of deploying a new infrastructure and simply bought a (well-regarded) book on the topic. I don’t think most people actually obtain professional Puppet training. I worked on examples until I could mold the process to my environment. This was December 2011, so within a few weeks, I was able to … Read more
As far as I can tell, CSCI was defined in the same logic as HWCI (Hardware Configuration Item) in DOD-STD-2167A which simply defined CSCI as a configuration item. More clear definition is in MIL-STD-498 which superseded DOD-STD-2167A: CSCI – An aggregation of software that satisfies an end use function and is designated for separate configuration … Read more