"DevOps"
Articles and mentions
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Jesse Robbins
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
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
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.
“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
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.
“Don't fight stupid, make more awesome.”
Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time
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.
“The Web is changing the way we live and touches every person alive. As more and more people depend on the Web, they depend on us. Web Operations is work that matters.”
Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Animates Server Chef
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
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.
“Try to learn a dollar's worth of lesson for every one you spend in failure.”
Understanding Operations Culture (Part 1)
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.
“You don't choose the moment, the moment chooses you. You only choose how prepared you are when it does.”