"DevOps"
Articles and mentions
Tim O'Reilly on Why We Started the Velocity Conference
Tim O'Reilly's 2013 retrospective on the origins of Velocity, with me as co-founder and conference chair. The story of the gathering place we built for our community.
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
DevOpsANGLE's list of five documents that shaped the DevOps movement included my 'Operations is a competitive advantage' post and the GameDay talk.
The Convergence of DevOps
John Willis traces the three threads that became DevOps and credits my 2007 'Operations is a competitive advantage' post and the first US DevOps Days.
“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.”