"DevOps History"
5 Pivotal Documents in the Evolution of the DevOps Movement
DevOpsANGLE picks five documents that shaped the DevOps movement, including Jesse Robbins's 'Operations is a competitive advantage' post and his GameDay talk describing the preconditions to DevOps at Amazon.
The Convergence of DevOps
John Willis traces the three threads that created DevOps and discusses Robbins' 2007 'Operations is a competitive advantage' post and his role co-organizing DevOps Days Mountainview 2010.
“Without Patrick, John, and Jesse, the DevOps movement may have never gained the traction necessary to really take off.”
Velocity: The Art of Web Operations
Tim O'Reilly opens Velocity 2009 by telling the origin story: Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders walked into his office and said 'We need a separate conference for our community.' Two years later, over 700 web operations professionals converged on San Jose.
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!)
"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."
You Become What You Disrupt
"You become what you disrupt. What changes occur when you win a platform play, when you go from disruptive technology to a public utility?"