"Chef"
Articles and mentions
Q&A: Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Jesse Robbins on the Power of 'Relentless Optimism' in Startups
GeekWire profiled me as Opscode CEO and pulled the line about not fighting stupid and making more awesome through the firefighter, Amazon, and Chef arcs.
“When you're trying to change the way big organizations work, a lot of people say no a lot. Rather than try to fight them, you've got to find a way to make them say yes. Being a force for awesome in the world is finding ways to say yes.”
Jesse Robbins on DevOps as Business Alignment
Jez Humble interviewed me at Thoughtworks on DevOps as business alignment: developers, operations, and the company shipping faster without giving up reliability.
“The role of operations is the role of enabling as much awesome as you can.”
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.
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.
Puppet, Chef Ease Transition to Cloud Computing
BusinessWeek put Opscode and Chef at the center of the enterprise cloud transition, alongside Puppet, and got my founding thesis on the record in the business press.
“The custom tools built by Google, Amazon, and some other guys were such closely guarded secrets. Our founding thesis was to open up these tools to everyone else.”
Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Animates Server Chef
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.