"Developer Tools"

Cloud Native StartupFest 2023

Jesse Robbins co-hosted Cloud Native StartupFest at KubeCon NA 2023 with Erica Brescia and Dave Zilberman. Tactical advice on fundraising, open source business models, and what investors actually look for.

“Open source is not a business model. Open source is a movement. We're still figuring out the business models.”

Incident Response and DevOps in the Age of Generative AI

Jesse Robbins convenes a panel of incident management veterans to examine where generative AI genuinely helps in SRE and DevOps — and where humans must stay in the loop.

“GenAI is good at confidently delivering text that is pleasant to read, but not always complete, or correct.”

What to Know About the Modern Incident Response Lifecycle

Heavybit's guide to modern incident management quotes Jesse Robbins on why teams only master incident response when they embrace the whole process — detection, response, and learning.

“Teams only get good at this when they embrace the whole process and each of its steps.”

A Developer's View Into Blockchain Network Architecture

Jesse Robbins joins a Blockdaemon panel with Brian Behlendorf of Hyperledger, Jed McCaleb of Stellar, and Jake Craige of Coinbase to examine blockchain infrastructure through a devtools lens.

Building Companies that Devs & DevOps Teams Love, And Avoiding Expensive Mistakes

Jesse Robbins shares hard-won lessons on the expensive mistakes developer-tools founders make, and what separates companies that developers and DevOps teams actually adopt from those they ignore.