Fixing the Flying Plane: A Production DevOps Team

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.