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# Mentions — Page 6 of 7

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins.

## [The Origins of Amazon's Cloud Computing](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/origins-amazon-cloud-computing-gigaom.md)

*GigaOM · Article · 2010-06-18*

I told Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOM the actual origin of EC2. Chris Pinkham wanted to keep working from South Africa, and I, running ops at Amazon, was at first horrified by the idea.

## [Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Animates Server Chef](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/ex-amazon-master-of-disaster-animates-server-chef-register.md)

*The Register · Article · 2010-01-26*

The Register profiled my move from Amazon's Master of Disaster role to co-founding Opscode and launching Chef, tracing the line from reliability engineering to infrastructure as code.

## [Velocity: The Art of Web Operations](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/velocity-art-of-web-operations-oreilly-radar.md)

*O'Reilly Radar · Article · 2009-06-22*

Tim O'Reilly's note opening Velocity 2009 tells the origin story: Steve Souders, Andy Oram, and I asked for a conference for our community. Two years in, 700 people showed up.

## [Five Whys: Try to Learn a Dollar's Worth of Lesson for Every One You Spend in Failure](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/five-whys-jesse-robbins-quote-venturehacks.md)

*Venture Hacks · Quote · 2008-11-17*

Eric Ries quoted me in his Venture Hacks guide to Five Whys: try to learn a dollar's worth of lesson for every dollar spent in failure. The line came from Amazon GameDay practice.

## [The Do-Good Imperative](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/do-good-imperative-businessweek.md)

*BusinessWeek · Article · 2008-07-07*

BusinessWeek's CEO Guide to Disaster Readiness covered my work at the seam between emergency response and technology, including the Velocity conference I co-founded.

## [Making Maps Work When Disaster Strikes](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/making-maps-work-disaster-strikes-businessweek.md)

*BusinessWeek · Article · 2008-07-07*

Companion piece in BusinessWeek's CEO Guide to Disaster Readiness. I described navigating post-Katrina Louisiana on broken maps and what that says about crisis tooling.

## [Understanding Operations Culture (Part 1)](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/understanding-web-operations-culture-part-1-oreilly-radar.md)

*O'Reilly Radar · Article · 2008-06-14*

I wrote this in 2008 to define web operations culture using what I had learned from the fire service: the habits that separate teams who handle incidents well from teams who don't.

## [Operations Is a Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce for Startups!)](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/operations-competitive-advantage-oreilly-radar.md)

*O'Reilly Radar · Article · 2007-10-23*

My 2007 O'Reilly Radar argument that operations is a competitive advantage for startups, and occasionally a strategic weapon. Comments thread includes Luke Kanies, John Allspaw, John Willis, and Steve Loughran.

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