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title: Chaos Engineering
description: Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins, tagged Chaos Engineering.
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# Chaos Engineering

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins, tagged Chaos Engineering.

## [Fireside Chat with Jesse Robbins and Kolton Andrus • Failover Conf 2021](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/fireside-chat-jesse-robbins-kolton-andrus-failover-conf.md)

*2021-04-29*

At Gremlin's Failover Conf 2021, Kolton Andrus and I covered GameDay origins at Amazon, the evolution of chaos engineering, and where reliability practices were headed.

## [An oral history of #hugops: How tech's first responders built a culture of empathy](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/oral-history-hugops-protocol.md)

*2021-02-25*

Protocol's oral history of

## [Tim O'Reilly on Why We Started the Velocity Conference](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/tim-oreilly-on-why-we-started-velocity-conference.md)

*2013-06-17*

Tim O'Reilly's 2013 retrospective on how the Velocity Conference began. I co-founded it with Steve Souders and chaired the program.

## [Jesse Robbins on the Rise of DevOps (InfoQ Interview)](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/rise-of-devops-jesse-robbins-infoq.md)

*2013-01-17*

InfoQ interviewed me on how DevOps started, why infrastructure as code changed operations, and what it actually takes to get developers and ops working together.

## [Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/resilience-engineering-learning-embrace-failure-acm-queue.md)

*2012-09-12*

Jesse Robbins (Amazon), Kripa Krishnan (Google), and John Allspaw (Etsy) discuss how they built organizations that deliberately trigger failure to get stronger: powering off data centers, running 96-hour disaster simulations, and transforming blame cultures into learning cultures.

## [Changing Culture & Being a Force for Awesome](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/velocity-2012-changing-culture-force-awesome-oreilly.md)

*2012-06-28*

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

## [GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/gameday-creating-resiliency-through-destruction-usenix.md)

*2011-12-20*

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.

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

*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.

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