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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 covered the moment infrastructure automation crossed from Google and Amazon's secret playbooks into the broader enterprise market. My founding thesis for Opscode in their words: open up the tools the giants had been guarding.

“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.