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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 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 put Opscode and Chef at the center of the enterprise cloud transition, alongside Puppet, and got my founding thesis on the record in the business press.

“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.”

The Origins of Amazon's Cloud Computing

I told Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOM the actual origin story of EC2: Chris Pinkham wanted to move home to South Africa, and I, the ops guy, was at first horrified.

“I was horrified at the thought of the dirty, public Internet touching MY beautiful operations.”