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Changing Culture & Being a Force for Awesome

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

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

Jesse Robbins on the State of Infrastructure Automation

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

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.

“Operations is a Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce for Startups!)”

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.

The Chef, the Puppet, and the Sexy IT Admin

Wired Enterprise covered the rivalry between Chef and Puppet as infrastructure automation went mainstream, placing Jesse Robbins and Opscode at the center of the industry's shift to infrastructure as code.

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.