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# DevOps — Page 2 of 4

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks where Jesse Robbins discusses DevOps.

## [Tim O'Reilly on Why We Started the Velocity Conference](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/tim-oreilly-on-why-we-started-velocity-conference.md)

*2013-06-17*

Tim O'Reilly's 2013 retrospective on how the Velocity Conference began. I co-founded it with Steve Souders and chaired the program.

## [Jesse Robbins on the Rise of DevOps (InfoQ Interview)](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/rise-of-devops-jesse-robbins-infoq.md)

*2013-01-17*

InfoQ interviewed me on how DevOps started, why infrastructure as code changed operations, and what it actually takes to get developers and ops working together.

## [Jesse Robbins on DevOps as Business Alignment](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/jesse-robbins-devops-cloud-computing-thoughtworks.md)

*2012-08-17*

Jez Humble interviewed me at Thoughtworks on DevOps as business alignment: developers, operations, and the company shipping faster without giving up reliability.

## [Changing Culture & Being a Force for Awesome](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/velocity-2012-changing-culture-force-awesome-oreilly.md)

*2012-06-28*

My 2012 Velocity talk on changing engineering culture from the inside. Start small, build champions, use metrics to create confidence, exploit compelling events.

## [Jesse Robbins on the State of Infrastructure Automation](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/jesse-robbins-infrastructure-automation-oreilly-radar.md)

*2012-05-11*

O'Reilly Radar interviewed me on Chef's evolution from open-source project to enterprise infrastructure automation, and where cloud operations was headed next.

## [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.

## [GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/gameday-creating-resiliency-through-destruction-usenix.md)

*2011-12-20*

My USENIX LISA'11 talk on GameDay: deliberately inject failures into production to build organizational resilience before real outages happen. I had been running these exercises at Amazon since 2003.

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- [Page 1](https://jesserobbins.com/topics/devops/index.md)
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