The Convergence of DevOps
IT Revolution by John Willis · · Article
"Without Patrick, John, and Jesse, the DevOps movement may have never gained the traction necessary to really take off."
John Willis traces the three threads that created DevOps and discusses Robbins' 2007 'Operations is a competitive advantage' post and his role co-organizing DevOps Days Mountainview 2010.
John Willis traces the three threads that converged to create the DevOps movement: Agile Infrastructure, Velocity, and Lean Startup.
Willis writes: “In 2007 I stumbled upon a great post by Jesse Robbins on O’Reilly Radar titled ‘Operations is a competitive advantage… (Secret Sauce for Startups!).’ For the first time Jesse was introducing technical debt as not just a metaphor for software development but applying it to operations as well.” Willis credits Jesse’s work, along with Tim O’Reilly’s recognition that operations was the elephant in the room, as the foundation that created the Velocity Conference.
Jesse co-organized DevOps Days Mountainview 2010 with Damon Edwards, Andrew Shafer, and Willis, the first US-based DevOps Days.
“Without Patrick, John, and Jesse, the DevOps movement may have never gained the traction necessary to really take off.”
Further Reading
- Operations Is a Competitive Advantage — The 2007 O’Reilly Radar post Willis credits as one of the three threads that created DevOps
- GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction — Jesse’s USENIX LISA’11 talk on the GameDay exercises he created at Amazon
- The Art of Web Operations — Jesse and John Allspaw’s Velocity 2009 talk that shaped the field
- 5 Pivotal Documents in the Evolution of the DevOps Movement — DevOpsANGLE’s independent analysis of the documents that created DevOps
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