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DevOps Culture Hacks: Infecting your Boss & your Business with Awesome
The original DevOps culture hacks talk at DevOpsDays Boston 2011. Jesse Robbins shares the formula for changing engineering culture from the inside, drawn from his years as Amazon's Master of Disaster.
“Don't fight stupid, make more awesome.”
MIT Technology Review TR35: Innovators Under 35
Jesse Robbins named to MIT Technology Review's TR35, their annual list of the world's top innovators under 35, for his work in web operations, cloud computing, and resilience engineering at Amazon.
Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time
Jesse Robbins and John Allspaw co-edited the O'Reilly book that defined web operations as a discipline. Essays from practitioners at Amazon, Google, and other companies that helped set the stage for DevOps.
Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Animates Server Chef
The Register profiles Jesse Robbins as Amazon's former 'Master of Disaster' and covers his co-founding of Opscode and the launch of Chef, tracing the line from his reliability engineering work at Amazon to the infrastructure-as-code movement.
Velocity: The Art of Web Operations
Tim O'Reilly opens Velocity 2009 by telling the origin story: Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders walked into his office and said 'We need a separate conference for our community.' Two years later, over 700 web operations professionals converged on San Jose.
Five Whys: Try to Learn a Dollar's Worth of Lesson for Every One You Spend in Failure
Eric Ries quotes Jesse Robbins in his Venture Hacks guide to implementing Five Whys at startups, linking GameDay's failure-as-learning philosophy to lean startup practice.
“Try to learn a dollar's worth of lesson for every one you spend in failure.”
Making Maps Work When Disaster Strikes
BusinessWeek's 2008 CEO Guide to Disaster Readiness featured Jesse Robbins' experience navigating post-Katrina Louisiana with broken maps, making the case for collaborative crisis mapping tools.
“One of the interesting things with being a pretty senior technology person operating in a disaster is that you get to see the state of the art versus the state of the practice.”
Understanding Operations Culture (Part 1)
Jesse Robbins draws on his firefighting background to define web operations culture — the mindset, habits, and discipline that separate teams who handle incidents well from those who don't.
“You don't choose the moment, the moment chooses you. You only choose how prepared you are when it does.”