"Site Reliability Engineering"
Incident Response and DevOps in the Age of Generative AI
Jesse Robbins convenes a panel of incident management veterans to examine where generative AI genuinely helps in SRE and DevOps — and where humans must stay in the loop.
“GenAI is good at confidently delivering text that is pleasant to read, but not always complete, or correct.”
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.
What to Know About the Modern Incident Response Lifecycle
Heavybit's guide to modern incident management quotes Jesse Robbins on why teams only master incident response when they embrace the whole process — detection, response, and learning.
“Teams only get good at this when they embrace the whole process and each of its steps.”
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.”
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.
Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure
Jesse Robbins (Amazon), Kripa Krishnan (Google), and John Allspaw (Etsy) discuss how they built organizations that deliberately trigger failure to get stronger: powering off data centers, running 96-hour disaster simulations, and transforming blame cultures into learning cultures.
“You can't choose whether or not you're going to have failures — they are going to happen no matter what — but you can choose in many cases when you're going to learn the lessons.”
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.”