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Changing Culture & Being a Force for Awesome

Jesse Robbins on how to change engineering culture from the inside. Start small, build champions, use metrics to create confidence, and exploit compelling events. The biggest barrier to operational improvement is not technology. It is organizational resistance.

“Don't fight stupid. Focus on where you can make more awesome.”

Jesse Robbins on the State of Infrastructure Automation

O'Reilly Radar interviews Jesse Robbins on how Chef grew from an open-source project into enterprise infrastructure automation, and where cloud operations was headed next.

5 Pivotal Documents in the Evolution of the DevOps Movement

DevOpsANGLE picks five documents that shaped the DevOps movement, including Jesse Robbins's 'Operations is a competitive advantage' post and his GameDay talk describing the preconditions to DevOps at Amazon.

The Convergence of DevOps

John Willis traces the three threads that created DevOps and discusses Robbins' 2007 'Operations is a competitive advantage' post and his role co-organizing DevOps Days Mountainview 2010.

“Without Patrick, John, and Jesse, the DevOps movement may have never gained the traction necessary to really take off.”

GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction

In this USENIX LISA'11 talk, Jesse Robbins explains GameDay: deliberately injecting failures into production systems to build organizational resilience before real outages happen.

“You don't choose the moment, the moment chooses you. You only choose how prepared you are when it does.”

Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Jesse Robbins

MIT Technology Review's video introduces Jesse Robbins as a 2011 TR35 winner. The interview documents external recognition of Robbins' leadership in web operations, reliability engineering, and infrastructure innovation during the formative Opscode and DevOps period.

DevOps Cafe Episode 19: Jesse Robbins

Jesse Robbins joins Damon Edwards and John Willis on the DevOps Cafe podcast to discuss his path from firefighting to Amazon's Master of Disaster to co-founding Chef and the Velocity Conference.

Puppet, Chef Ease Transition to Cloud Computing

BusinessWeek's 2011 cloud infrastructure feature placed Opscode and Chef at the center of the enterprise cloud transition, covering how open-source tools were bringing operational practices from Google and Amazon to every company.

“The custom tools built by Google, Amazon, and some other guys were such closely guarded secrets. Our founding thesis was to open up these tools to everyone else.”