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title: DevOps History
description: Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins, tagged DevOps History.
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# DevOps History

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins, tagged DevOps History.

## [5 Pivotal Documents in the Evolution of the DevOps Movement](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/five-pivotal-documents-devops-movement-devopsangle.md)

*2012-04-03*

Klint Finley's 2012 canon of DevOps. The Agile Manifesto, Tim O'Reilly's Operations piece, my 'Operations is a Competitive Advantage' post from 2007, John Allspaw's 10 Deploys talk, and Jay Lyman's analyst report.

## [The Convergence of DevOps](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/convergence-of-devops-itrevolution.md)

*2012-03-30*

John Willis's history of how DevOps came together: Agile Infrastructure, Velocity, and Lean Startup as the three threads that converged.

## [Velocity: The Art of Web Operations](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/velocity-art-of-web-operations-oreilly-radar.md)

*2009-06-22*

Tim O'Reilly's note opening Velocity 2009 tells the origin story: Steve Souders, Andy Oram, and I asked for a conference for our community. Two years in, 700 people showed up.

## [Operations Is a Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce for Startups!)](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/operations-competitive-advantage-oreilly-radar.md)

*2007-10-23*

My 2007 O'Reilly Radar argument that operations is a competitive advantage for startups, and occasionally a strategic weapon. Comments thread includes Luke Kanies, John Allspaw, John Willis, and Steve Loughran.

## [You Become What You Disrupt](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/you-become-what-you-disrupt-oreilly-radar.md)

*2007-10-02*

What happens when a disruptive technology wins a platform play and inherits the obligations of the system it replaced? I wrote this on O'Reilly Radar in 2007. The questions are still open.

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