"Site Reliability Engineering"
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.
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.”
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!)
"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."