"Site Reliability Engineering"

The Register

Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Animates Server Chef

The Register profiles Jesse Robbins as Amazon's former 'Master of Disaster' and covers his co-founding of Opscode and the launch of Chef, tracing the line from his reliability engineering work at Amazon to the infrastructure-as-code movement.

O'Reilly Radar

Understanding 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.”

— Fire Chief Mike Burtch
O'Reilly Radar

Operations Is a Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce for Startups!)

The post that started it all. Jesse Robbins argues on O'Reilly Radar that operations is a competitive advantage and occasionally a strategic weapon. Luke Kanies introduces him to Adam Jacob in the comments. The rest is history.

Operations Is a Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce for Startups!)

· via O'Reilly Radar
"Operations is a competitive advantage and occasionally a strategic weapon — the ability to consistently create and deploy reliable software to an unreliable platform that scales horizontally."