"Engineering Culture"
Articles and mentions
Call a savepoint
Working with AI engages the same dopamine machinery as slot machines. The hollow feeling at the end of a 2.3B-token week is the loop doing what loops like this do. The fix is a savepoint.
“The pull you feel toward 'just one more iteration' is not evidence that the work needs more time. It is evidence that the schedule of small wins has trained your brain to expect another one.”
DevOps is dead? Nope, it is maturing ft. Jesse Robbins
Rob Zuber hosted me on CircleCI's Confident Commit to push back on the 'DevOps is dead' narrative. The hard problems now are organizational, not technical.
An oral history of #hugops: How tech's first responders built a culture of empathy
Protocol's oral history of
“I've got to change the way that I approach this entirely and make it safe to experiment.”
Building Companies that Devs & DevOps Teams Love, And Avoiding Expensive Mistakes
Heavybit talk on the expensive mistakes developer-tools founders make, drawn from the ones I made building Chef from open source into an enterprise infrastructure company.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.”