"Cloud Infrastructure"
Articles and mentions
Jesse Robbins on the State of Infrastructure Automation
O'Reilly Radar interviewed me on Chef's evolution from open-source project to enterprise infrastructure automation, and where cloud operations was headed next.
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Jesse Robbins
MIT Technology Review interviewed me as a 2011 TR35 honoree, recognizing the work on web operations, infrastructure automation, and reliability at Opscode.
The Origins of Amazon's Cloud Computing
I told Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOM the actual origin of EC2. Chris Pinkham wanted to keep working from South Africa, and I, running ops at Amazon, was at first horrified by the idea.
“I was horrified at the thought of the dirty, public Internet touching MY beautiful operations.”
Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Animates Server Chef
The Register profiled my move from Amazon's Master of Disaster role to co-founding Opscode and launching Chef, tracing the line from reliability engineering to infrastructure as code.
Operations Is a Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce for Startups!)
My 2007 O'Reilly Radar argument that operations is a competitive advantage for startups, and occasionally a strategic weapon. Comments thread includes Luke Kanies, John Allspaw, John Willis, and Steve Loughran.