"Cloud Infrastructure"

O'Reilly Radar

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.

MIT Technology Review

Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Jesse Robbins

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MIT Technology Review's video introduces Jesse Robbins as a 2011 TR35 winner. The interview documents external recognition of Robbins' leadership in web operations, reliability engineering, and infrastructure innovation during the formative Opscode and DevOps period.

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The Register

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.

O'Reilly Radar

Operations Is a Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce for Startups!)

The post that started it all. Jesse Robbins argues on O'Reilly Radar that operations is a competitive advantage and occasionally a strategic weapon. Luke Kanies introduces him to Adam Jacob in the comments. The rest is history.

Operations Is a Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce for Startups!)

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"Operations is a competitive advantage and occasionally a strategic weapon — the ability to consistently create and deploy reliable software to an unreliable platform that scales horizontally."