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An oral history of #hugops: How tech's first responders built a culture of empathy
Protocol's oral history of
“I've got to change the way that I approach this entirely and make it safe to experiment.”
A Developer's View Into Blockchain Network Architecture
Jesse Robbins joins a Blockdaemon panel with Brian Behlendorf of Hyperledger, Jed McCaleb of Stellar, and Jake Craige of Coinbase to examine blockchain infrastructure through a devtools lens.
Building Companies that Devs & DevOps Teams Love, And Avoiding Expensive Mistakes
Jesse Robbins shares hard-won lessons on the expensive mistakes developer-tools founders make, and what separates companies that developers and DevOps teams actually adopt from those they ignore.
Tim O'Reilly on Why We Started the Velocity Conference
Tim O'Reilly's retrospective on the origins of the Velocity Conference explains why the event was launched and how web operations emerged as a strategic discipline, with Jesse Robbins as co-founder and conference chair.
Jesse Robbins on the Rise of DevOps (InfoQ Interview)
Jesse Robbins talks with InfoQ about how DevOps started, why infrastructure as code changed operations, and what it actually takes to get developers and ops teams working together.
Q&A: Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Jesse Robbins on the Power of 'Relentless Optimism' in Startups
GeekWire profiles Jesse Robbins as CEO of Opscode, where his motto 'don't fight stupid, make more awesome' drives a company culture founded on relentless positivity, from firefighting to Amazon to building enterprise software.
“When you're trying to change the way big organizations work, a lot of people say no a lot. Rather than try to fight them, you've got to find a way to make them say yes. Being a force for awesome in the world is finding ways to say yes.”
Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure
Jesse Robbins (Amazon), Kripa Krishnan (Google), and John Allspaw (Etsy) discuss how they built organizations that deliberately trigger failure to get stronger: powering off data centers, running 96-hour disaster simulations, and transforming blame cultures into learning cultures.
“You can't choose whether or not you're going to have failures — they are going to happen no matter what — but you can choose in many cases when you're going to learn the lessons.”
Jesse Robbins Discusses DevOps and Cloud Computing
Jez Humble interviews Jesse Robbins on DevOps, continuous delivery, measuring operations maturity, and infrastructure as code with Chef. Part of a Thoughtworks series with Eric Ries, Elizabeth Hendrickson, and John Allspaw.