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DevOps is dead? Nope, it is maturing ft. Jesse Robbins
DevOps is not dead. It's maturing. Platform engineering is the next layer of the same idea, not a replacement for it. My conversation with Rob Zuber on what's actually changing and what isn't.
“Organizations evolve like cities. You start with a few shacks in the woods. Eventually you have enough at stake that you need building codes, fire codes, a fire department, and someone who actually tests the sprinklers.”
What to Know About the Modern Incident Response Lifecycle
Heavybit's incident management guide quotes me on why teams only get good at incident response when they treat the whole lifecycle as one discipline.
“Teams only get good at this when they embrace the whole process and each of its steps.”
Fireside Chat with Jesse Robbins and Kolton Andrus • Failover Conf 2021
At Gremlin's Failover Conf 2021, Kolton Andrus and I covered GameDay origins at Amazon, the evolution of chaos engineering, and where reliability practices were headed.
The Seed 100: The Best Early-Stage Investors of 2021
Business Insider named me to the 2021 Seed 100, a list of early-stage investors built with Tribe Capital.
“Robbins is the right investor to call in an emergency.”
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
I joined a Blockdaemon panel at Heavybit with Brian Behlendorf, Jed McCaleb, and Jake Craige to look at blockchain infrastructure through a developer-tools lens.
Incident Management for Operations (foreword by Jesse Robbins)
I wrote the foreword to Schnepp, Vidal, and Hawley's O'Reilly book bringing fire-service incident command into IT operations. The lineage runs from my work at Amazon as Master of Disaster through the first Web Ops/Fire Ops summit I convened in 2012.
“This groundbreaking book is the foundation to building an effective operations culture for organizations of any size, with systems of any complexity, and failures of any severity.”
Building Companies that Devs & DevOps Teams Love, And Avoiding Expensive Mistakes
Heavybit talk on the expensive mistakes developer-tools founders make, drawn from the ones I made building Chef from open source into an enterprise infrastructure company.