Rails Machine - Hi, I'm the New Guy

My first post for the @railsmachine blog!

Hi, my name is Kevin Lawver and I’ve been at Rails Machine for almost a month now. I would have written a blog post sooner, but I’ve been busy learning things . I came to Rails Machine from a startup here in Savannah where I was CTO (and sysadmin and lead developer and project manager, etc) and have known the Rails Machine guys for a couple of years, so I thought I knew what I was getting myself into when I took this job. I didn’t. I knew there would be the usual “new guy” transition: learning how things work, internal processes, etc. What I didn’t bank on was getting to know dozens of Rails apps intimately in a couple of weeks, or the massive amounts of git-fu involved in managing deployments of hundreds of apps and servers, or all the systems used to deploy, monitor, troubleshoot and fix hundreds of servers. It’s exciting, to say the least. I’ve learned more about git in...

Full article: http://railsmachine.com/articles/2012/05/11/hi-im-the-new...