"DevOps"
Jesse Robbins on the Rise of DevOps (InfoQ Interview)
Jesse Robbins talks with InfoQ about how DevOps started, why infrastructure as code changed operations, and what it actually takes to get developers and ops teams working together.
Jesse Robbins Discusses DevOps and Cloud Computing
Jez Humble interviews Jesse Robbins on DevOps, continuous delivery, measuring operations maturity, and infrastructure as code with Chef. Part of a Thoughtworks series with Eric Ries, Elizabeth Hendrickson, and John Allspaw.
Changing Culture & Being a Force for Awesome
Jesse Robbins on how to change engineering culture from the inside. Start small, build champions, use metrics to create confidence, and exploit compelling events. The biggest barrier to operational improvement is not technology. It is organizational resistance.
“Don't fight stupid. Focus on where you can make more awesome.”
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.
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.”
GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction
In this USENIX LISA'11 talk, Jesse Robbins explains GameDay: deliberately injecting failures into production systems to build organizational resilience before real outages happen.
“You don't choose the moment, the moment chooses you. You only choose how prepared you are when it does.”
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Jesse Robbins
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.