"DevOps"
DevOps Cafe Episode 19: Jesse Robbins
Jesse Robbins joins Damon Edwards and John Willis on the DevOps Cafe podcast to discuss his path from firefighting to Amazon's Master of Disaster to co-founding Chef and the Velocity Conference.
Puppet, Chef Ease Transition to Cloud Computing
BusinessWeek's 2011 cloud infrastructure feature placed Opscode and Chef at the center of the enterprise cloud transition, covering how open-source tools were bringing operational practices from Google and Amazon to every company.
“The custom tools built by Google, Amazon, and some other guys were such closely guarded secrets. Our founding thesis was to open up these tools to everyone else.”
DevOps Culture Hacks: Infecting your Boss & your Business with Awesome
The original DevOps culture hacks talk at DevOpsDays Boston 2011. Jesse Robbins shares the formula for changing engineering culture from the inside, drawn from his years as Amazon's Master of Disaster.
“Don't fight stupid, make more awesome.”
Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time
Jesse Robbins and John Allspaw co-edited the O'Reilly book that defined web operations as a discipline. Essays from practitioners at Amazon, Google, and other companies that helped set the stage for DevOps.
Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Animates Server Chef
The Register profiles Jesse Robbins as Amazon's former 'Master of Disaster' and covers his co-founding of Opscode and the launch of Chef, tracing the line from his reliability engineering work at Amazon to the infrastructure-as-code movement.
Five Whys: Try to Learn a Dollar's Worth of Lesson for Every One You Spend in Failure
Eric Ries quotes Jesse Robbins in his Venture Hacks guide to implementing Five Whys at startups, linking GameDay's failure-as-learning philosophy to lean startup practice.
“Try to learn a dollar's worth of lesson for every one you spend in failure.”
Understanding Operations Culture (Part 1)
Jesse Robbins draws on his firefighting background to define web operations culture — the mindset, habits, and discipline that separate teams who handle incidents well from those who don't.
“You don't choose the moment, the moment chooses you. You only choose how prepared you are when it does.”
Operations Is a Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce for Startups!)
The post that started it all. Jesse Robbins argues on O'Reilly Radar that operations is a competitive advantage and occasionally a strategic weapon. Luke Kanies introduces him to Adam Jacob in the comments. The rest is history.