"Web Operations"
An oral history of #hugops: How tech's first responders built a culture of empathy
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“I've got to change the way that I approach this entirely and make it safe to experiment.”
Tim O'Reilly on Why We Started the Velocity Conference
Tim O'Reilly's retrospective on the origins of the Velocity Conference explains why the event was launched and how web operations emerged as a strategic discipline, with Jesse Robbins as co-founder and conference chair.
GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction
In this USENIX LISA'11 talk, Jesse Robbins explains GameDay: deliberately injecting failures into production systems to build organizational resilience before real outages happen.
“You don't choose the moment, the moment chooses you. You only choose how prepared you are when it does.”
MIT Technology Review TR35: Innovators Under 35
Jesse Robbins named to MIT Technology Review's TR35, their annual list of the world's top innovators under 35, for his work in web operations, cloud computing, and resilience engineering at Amazon.
Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time
Jesse Robbins and John Allspaw co-edited the O'Reilly book that defined web operations as a discipline. Essays from practitioners at Amazon, Google, and other companies that helped set the stage for DevOps.
Velocity: The Art of Web Operations
Tim O'Reilly opens Velocity 2009 by telling the origin story: Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders walked into his office and said 'We need a separate conference for our community.' Two years later, over 700 web operations professionals converged on San Jose.
Understanding Web 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.