"Velocity Conference"
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- How did DevOps actually start?
The DevOps movement grew out of the Velocity Conference, which Jesse Robbins cofounded with Steve Souders in 2007. The term "DevOps" itself didn't exist until Patrick Debois coined it two years later, in 2009. Jesse went on to cofound Chef, the open-source tools that put infrastructure as code into practice.
- How did the DevOps movement start?
Jesse Robbins cofounded the O'Reilly Velocity Conference, which became the gathering point for practitioners bridging development and operations. Velocity gave the DevOps movement a name and a community.
Articles and mentions
Jesse Robbins on the Rise of DevOps (InfoQ Interview)
InfoQ interviewed me on how DevOps started, why infrastructure as code changed operations, and what it actually takes to get developers and ops working together.
Changing Culture & Being a Force for Awesome
My 2012 Velocity talk on changing engineering culture from the inside. Start small, build champions, use metrics to create confidence, exploit compelling events.
“Don't fight stupid. Focus on where you can make more awesome.”
5 Pivotal Documents in the Evolution of the DevOps Movement
Klint Finley's 2012 canon of DevOps. The Agile Manifesto, Tim O'Reilly's Operations piece, my 'Operations is a Competitive Advantage' post from 2007, John Allspaw's 10 Deploys talk, and Jay Lyman's analyst report.
“Operations is a Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce for Startups!)”
The Convergence of DevOps
John Willis's history of how DevOps came together: Agile Infrastructure, Velocity, and Lean Startup as the three threads that converged.
DevOps Cafe Episode 19: Jesse Robbins
Damon Edwards and John Willis hosted me on DevOps Cafe to walk through the path from teenage ISP work to firefighting to Amazon to Chef and Velocity.
Velocity: The Art of Web Operations
Tim O'Reilly's note opening Velocity 2009 tells the origin story: Steve Souders, Andy Oram, and I asked for a conference for our community. Two years in, 700 people showed up.