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The Convergence of DevOps

John Willis's history of how DevOps came together: Agile Infrastructure, Velocity, and Lean Startup as the three threads that converged.

GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction

My USENIX LISA'11 talk on GameDay: deliberately inject failures into production to build organizational resilience before real outages happen. I had been running these exercises at Amazon since 2003.

“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 interviewed me as a 2011 TR35 honoree, recognizing the work on web operations, infrastructure automation, and reliability at Opscode.

DevOps Cafe Episode 19: Jesse Robbins

Damon Edwards and John Willis hosted me on DevOps Cafe to walk through the path from teenage ISP work to firefighting to Amazon to Chef and Velocity.

Puppet, Chef Ease Transition to Cloud Computing

BusinessWeek covered the moment infrastructure automation crossed from Google and Amazon's secret playbooks into the broader enterprise market. My founding thesis for Opscode in their words: open up the tools the giants had been guarding.

“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.”

DevOps Culture Hacks: Infecting your Boss & your Business with Awesome

DevOpsDays Boston 2011. I gave the culture hacks talk for the first time, no slides, no video, just the framework I had figured out the hard way at Amazon.

“Don't fight stupid, make more awesome.”

MIT Technology Review TR35: Innovators Under 35

The MIT Technology Review TR35 listing for 2011, citing my work on web operations, cloud, and resilience engineering at Amazon and Opscode.

Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time

John Allspaw and I co-edited the O'Reilly Web Operations book that defined the discipline. Essays from practitioners at Amazon, Google, and the companies that set the stage for DevOps.

“The Web is changing the way we live and touches every person alive. As more and more people depend on the Web, they depend on us. Web Operations is work that matters.”