"Engineering Culture"
DevOps is dead? Nope, it is maturing ft. Jesse Robbins
Jesse Robbins joins CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber on The Confident Commit to argue that DevOps is not dead but growing up, and that the hard problems now are organizational, not technical.
An oral history of #hugops: How tech's first responders built a culture of empathy
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“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
Jesse Robbins shares hard-won lessons on the expensive mistakes developer-tools founders make, and what separates companies that developers and DevOps teams actually adopt from those they ignore.
Tim O'Reilly on Why We Started the Velocity Conference
Tim O'Reilly's retrospective on the origins of the Velocity Conference explains why the event was launched and how web operations emerged as a strategic discipline, with Jesse Robbins as co-founder and conference chair.
Changing Culture & Being a Force for Awesome
Jesse Robbins on how to change engineering culture from the inside. Start small, build champions, use metrics to create confidence, and exploit compelling events. The biggest barrier to operational improvement is not technology. It is organizational resistance.
“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
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.”
Understanding Web 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.”