"DevOps"

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.

The Chef, the Puppet, and the Sexy IT Admin

Wired Enterprise covered the rivalry between Chef and Puppet as infrastructure automation went mainstream, placing Jesse Robbins and Opscode at the center of the industry's shift to infrastructure as code.

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.”