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title: Mentions — Page 4 of 7
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# Mentions — Page 4 of 7

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins.

## [Tim O'Reilly on Why We Started the Velocity Conference](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/tim-oreilly-on-why-we-started-velocity-conference.md)

*O'Reilly Radar · Article · 2013-06-17*

Tim O'Reilly's 2013 retrospective on how the Velocity Conference began. I co-founded it with Steve Souders and chaired the program.

## [Jesse Robbins on the Rise of DevOps (InfoQ Interview)](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/rise-of-devops-jesse-robbins-infoq.md)

*InfoQ · Article · 2013-01-17*

InfoQ interviewed me on how DevOps started, why infrastructure as code changed operations, and what it actually takes to get developers and ops working together.

## [Q&A: Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Jesse Robbins on the Power of 'Relentless Optimism' in Startups](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/master-of-disaster-relentless-optimism-geekwire.md)

*GeekWire · Article · 2012-10-27*

GeekWire ran a long Q&A while I was running Opscode and pulled out the operating principle I kept using inside Amazon: when people say no, find a way to make them say yes.

## [Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/resilience-engineering-learning-embrace-failure-acm-queue.md)

*ACM Queue · Article · 2012-09-12*

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.

## [Jesse Robbins on DevOps as Business Alignment](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/jesse-robbins-devops-cloud-computing-thoughtworks.md)

*Thoughtworks · Video · 2012-08-17*

Jez Humble interviewed me at Thoughtworks on DevOps as business alignment: developers, operations, and the company shipping faster without giving up reliability.

## [Changing Culture & Being a Force for Awesome](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/velocity-2012-changing-culture-force-awesome-oreilly.md)

*O'Reilly Velocity Conference · Video · 2012-06-28*

My 2012 Velocity talk on changing engineering culture from the inside. Start small, build champions, use metrics to create confidence, exploit compelling events.

## [Jesse Robbins on the State of Infrastructure Automation](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/jesse-robbins-infrastructure-automation-oreilly-radar.md)

*O'Reilly Radar · Article · 2012-05-11*

O'Reilly Radar interviewed me on Chef's evolution from open-source project to enterprise infrastructure automation, and where cloud operations was headed next.

## [5 Pivotal Documents in the Evolution of the DevOps Movement](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/five-pivotal-documents-devops-movement-devopsangle.md)

*SiliconANGLE · Article · 2012-04-03*

Klint Finley's 2012 canon of DevOps. The Agile Manifesto, Tim O'Reilly's Operations piece, my 'Operations is a Competitive Advantage' post from 2007, John Allspaw's 10 Deploys talk, and Jay Lyman's analyst report.

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