Jesse Robbins on the State of Infrastructure Automation
O'Reilly Radar by Timothy M. O'Brien · · Article
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Tim O'Brien interviewed me at the moment Chef was making the transition from a tool the early adopters loved to something the enterprise was buying at scale. The interview captures the strategic question that defined that period: how do you grow without losing the practitioners who made the project work in the first place.
Tim O’Brien interviewed me for O’Reilly Radar in May 2012, while I was Chief Community Officer at Opscode. We talked about Chef’s evolution from a tool the early adopters loved into something enterprise customers were buying at scale, and about the broader shift toward treating infrastructure as code.