"DevOps"

Tim O'Reilly on Why We Started the Velocity Conference

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)

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

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

“The role of operations is the role of enabling as much awesome as you can.”

Changing Culture & Being a Force for Awesome

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

“Don't fight stupid. Focus on where you can make more awesome.”

Jesse Robbins on the State of Infrastructure Automation

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

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.

“Operations is a Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce for Startups!)”

The Convergence of DevOps

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

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.

“You don't choose the moment, the moment chooses you. You only choose how prepared you are when it does.”