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# DevOps — Page 3 of 4

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins, tagged DevOps.

## [Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Jesse Robbins](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/meet-2011-tr35-winner-jesse-robbins-mit-tr.md)

*2011-12-02*

MIT Technology Review interviewed me as a 2011 TR35 honoree, recognizing the work on web operations, infrastructure automation, and reliability at Opscode.

## [DevOps Cafe Episode 19: Jesse Robbins](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/devops-cafe-episode-19-jesse-robbins.md)

*2011-09-20*

Damon Edwards and John Willis hosted me on DevOps Cafe to walk through the path from teenage ISP work to firefighting to Amazon to Chef and Velocity.

## [Puppet, Chef Ease Transition to Cloud Computing](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/puppet-chef-ease-transition-cloud-businessweek.md)

*2011-09-01*

BusinessWeek covered the moment infrastructure automation crossed from Google and Amazon's secret playbooks into the broader enterprise market. My founding thesis for Opscode in their words: open up the tools the giants had been guarding.

## [DevOps Culture Hacks: Infecting your Boss & your Business with Awesome](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/devops-culture-hacks-devopsdays-boston.md)

*2011-03-08*

DevOpsDays Boston 2011. I gave the culture hacks talk for the first time, no slides, no video, just the framework I had figured out the hard way at Amazon.

## [Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/web-operations-book-allspaw-robbins-oreilly.md)

*2010-06-28*

John Allspaw and I co-edited the O'Reilly Web Operations book that defined the discipline. Essays from practitioners at Amazon, Google, and the companies that set the stage for DevOps.

## [Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Animates Server Chef](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/ex-amazon-master-of-disaster-animates-server-chef-register.md)

*2010-01-26*

The Register profiled my move from Amazon's Master of Disaster role to co-founding Opscode and launching Chef, tracing the line from reliability engineering to infrastructure as code.

## [Five Whys: Try to Learn a Dollar's Worth of Lesson for Every One You Spend in Failure](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/five-whys-jesse-robbins-quote-venturehacks.md)

*2008-11-17*

Eric Ries quoted me in his Venture Hacks guide to Five Whys: try to learn a dollar's worth of lesson for every dollar spent in failure. The line came from Amazon GameDay practice.

## [Understanding Operations Culture (Part 1)](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/understanding-web-operations-culture-part-1-oreilly-radar.md)

*2008-06-14*

I wrote this in 2008 to define web operations culture using what I had learned from the fire service: the habits that separate teams who handle incidents well from teams who don't.

## Other pages

- [Page 1](https://jesserobbins.com/topics/devops/index.md)
- [Page 2](https://jesserobbins.com/topics/devops/2.md)
- [Page 4](https://jesserobbins.com/topics/devops/4.md)

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