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title: Site Reliability Engineering
description: Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks where Jesse Robbins discusses Site Reliability Engineering.
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# Site Reliability Engineering

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks where Jesse Robbins discusses Site Reliability Engineering.

## [Generative AI in DevOps and Incident Response: What the Experts Actually Think](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/2023-10-12-generative-ai-devops-incident-response-heavybit.md)

*2023-10-12*

I interviewed Nora Jones, Jeremy Edberg, Mandi Walls, and Brent Chapman on what generative AI actually does in incident response, and where humans have to stay in the loop.

## [DevOps is dead? Nope, it is maturing ft. Jesse Robbins](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/devops-is-dead-nope-it-is-maturing-confident-commit-podcast.md)

*2023-04-07*

DevOps is not dead. It's maturing. Platform engineering is the next layer of the same idea, not a replacement for it. My conversation with Rob Zuber on what's actually changing and what isn't.

## [What to Know About the Modern Incident Response Lifecycle](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/incident-response-best-practices-heavybit.md)

*2022-11-11*

Heavybit's incident management guide quotes me on why teams only get good at incident response when they treat the whole lifecycle as one discipline.

## [Fireside Chat with Jesse Robbins and Kolton Andrus • Failover Conf 2021](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/fireside-chat-jesse-robbins-kolton-andrus-failover-conf.md)

*2021-04-29*

At Gremlin's Failover Conf 2021, Kolton Andrus and I covered GameDay origins at Amazon, the evolution of chaos engineering, and where reliability practices were headed.

## [An oral history of #hugops: How tech's first responders built a culture of empathy](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/oral-history-hugops-protocol.md)

*2021-02-25*

Protocol's oral history of

## [Tim O'Reilly on Why We Started the Velocity Conference](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/tim-oreilly-on-why-we-started-velocity-conference.md)

*2013-06-17*

Tim O'Reilly's 2013 retrospective on how the Velocity Conference began. I co-founded it with Steve Souders and chaired the program.

## [Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/resilience-engineering-learning-embrace-failure-acm-queue.md)

*2012-09-12*

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.

## [GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/gameday-creating-resiliency-through-destruction-usenix.md)

*2011-12-20*

My USENIX LISA'11 talk on GameDay: deliberately inject failures into production to build organizational resilience before real outages happen. I had been running these exercises at Amazon since 2003.

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