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Q&A: Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Jesse Robbins on the Power of 'Relentless Optimism' in Startups
GeekWire profiles Jesse Robbins as CEO of Opscode, where his motto 'don't fight stupid, make more awesome' drives a company culture founded on relentless positivity, from firefighting to Amazon to building enterprise software.
“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 Discusses DevOps and Cloud Computing
Jez Humble interviews Jesse Robbins on DevOps, continuous delivery, measuring operations maturity, and infrastructure as code with Chef. Part of a Thoughtworks series with Eric Ries, Elizabeth Hendrickson, and John Allspaw.
Changing Culture & Being a Force for Awesome
Jesse Robbins on how to change engineering culture from the inside. Start small, build champions, use metrics to create confidence, and exploit compelling events. The biggest barrier to operational improvement is not technology. It is organizational resistance.
“Don't fight stupid. Focus on where you can make more awesome.”
Jesse Robbins on the State of Infrastructure Automation
O'Reilly Radar interviews Jesse Robbins on how Chef grew from an open-source project into enterprise infrastructure automation, and where cloud operations was headed next.
DevOps Cafe Episode 19: Jesse Robbins
Jesse Robbins joins Damon Edwards and John Willis on the DevOps Cafe podcast to discuss his path from firefighting to Amazon's Master of Disaster to co-founding Chef and the Velocity Conference.
Puppet, Chef Ease Transition to Cloud Computing
BusinessWeek's 2011 cloud infrastructure feature placed Opscode and Chef at the center of the enterprise cloud transition, covering how open-source tools were bringing operational practices from Google and Amazon to every company.
“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 profiles Jesse Robbins as Amazon's former 'Master of Disaster' and covers his co-founding of Opscode and the launch of Chef, tracing the line from his reliability engineering work at Amazon to the infrastructure-as-code movement.