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title: Velocity Conference
description: Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks where Jesse Robbins discusses Velocity Conference.
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# Velocity Conference

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks where Jesse Robbins discusses Velocity Conference.

## [Jesse Robbins on the Rise of DevOps (InfoQ Interview)](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/rise-of-devops-jesse-robbins-infoq.md)

*2013-01-17*

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](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/velocity-2012-changing-culture-force-awesome-oreilly.md)

*2012-06-28*

My 2012 Velocity talk on changing engineering culture from the inside. Start small, build champions, use metrics to create confidence, exploit compelling events.

## [5 Pivotal Documents in the Evolution of the DevOps Movement](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/five-pivotal-documents-devops-movement-devopsangle.md)

*2012-04-03*

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.

## [The Convergence of DevOps](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/convergence-of-devops-itrevolution.md)

*2012-03-30*

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](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/devops-cafe-episode-19-jesse-robbins.md)

*2011-09-20*

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](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/velocity-art-of-web-operations-oreilly-radar.md)

*2009-06-22*

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.

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