Jesse Robbins
http://twitter.com/jesserobbins
Seattle, Washington
jesse@opscode.com
Jesse Robbins (@jesserobbins) is CEO of Opscode (makers of Chef) and a recognized expert in Infrastructure, Web Operations, and Emergency Management.
He served as co-chair of the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and contributes to the O’Reilly Radar. Prior to co-founding Opscode, he worked at Amazon.com with a title of "Master of Disaster" where he was responsible for Website Availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand.
Robbins is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager, and led a task force deployed in Operation Hurricane Katrina. His experiences in the fire service profoundly influence his efforts in technology, and he strives to distill his knowledge from these two worlds and apply it in service of both.
He served as co-chair of the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and contributes to the O’Reilly Radar. Prior to co-founding Opscode, he worked at Amazon.com with a title of "Master of Disaster" where he was responsible for Website Availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand.
Robbins is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager, and led a task force deployed in Operation Hurricane Katrina. His experiences in the fire service profoundly influence his efforts in technology, and he strives to distill his knowledge from these two worlds and apply it in service of both.
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- Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day!, July 29 2011
- What Facebook's Open Compute Project means, April 07 2011
- Creating Cultural Change, June 29 2010
- Velocity Culture: Web Operations, DevOps, etc..., June 03 2010
- CrisisCamps and the Pattern of Disaster Technology Innovation, January 23 2010
- Velocity 2010: Fast By Default, November 24 2009
- More on how web performance impacts revenue..., October 01 2009
- John Adams on Fixing Twitter: Improving the Performance and Scalability of the World's Most Popular Micro-blogging Site, August 06 2009
- Jonathan Heiliger on Web Performance, Operations, and Culture, June 24 2009
- Ignite! comes to San Jose June 22nd - Submit your talks now!, June 08 2009
- CrisisCamp is June 12-14th in Washington, DC, June 07 2009
- Time Lapse of Galactic Center of Milky Way rising over Texas Star Party, May 21 2009
- Space Shuttle Atlantis during Solar Transit, May 17 2009
- Velocity 2009 - Big Ideas (early registration deadline), May 08 2009
- Importance of Innovation in Finance & BarCampBank, April 20 2009
- AT&T Fiber cuts remind us: Location is a Basket too!, April 10 2009
- It's Really Just a Series of Tubes, April 07 2009
- Understanding Web Operations Culture - the Graph & Data Obsession, February 05 2009
- Data Center Power Efficiency, November 30 2008
- Velocity 2009: Themes, ideas, and call for participation..., November 21 2008
- Major milestone for ProgrammableWeb & "The Web as Platform", November 03 2008
- DisasterTech: "Decisions for Heros", November 02 2008
- Sprint blocking Cogent network traffic..., October 31 2008
- Amazon's new EC2 SLA, October 24 2008
- Incredible images of the Sun, October 15 2008
- Incredible images of the Sun, October 15 2008
- Incredible images of the Sun, October 15 2008
- Incredible images of the Sun, October 15 2008
- Apple's restrictions mean more jailbreaking & Android adoption, September 24 2008
- Kaminsky DNS Patch Visualization, August 07 2008
- The new internet traffic spikes, June 29 2008
- The new internet traffic spikes, June 29 2008
- Video of Rich Wolski's incredible EUCALYPTUS talk at Velocity, June 24 2008
- Hyperic CloudStatus service dashboard launches at Velocity!, June 23 2008
- code_swarm - visualizing the life of open source, June 19 2008
- Service Monitoring Dashboards are mandatory for production services!, June 18 2008
- Two new open source projects at Velocity, June 17 2008
- Understanding Web Operations Culture (Part 1), June 14 2008
- CloudCamp gathering after Velocity, June 13 2008
- BarCampBank is spreading, June 12 2008
- Bill Coleman to keynote Velocity, June 11 2008
- TLS Report grades and reports on site security, June 10 2008
- DisasterTech from Where2.0, May 31 2008
- DisasterTech from Where2.0, May 30 2008
- Ignite! @ Velocity: Submit your talks & "war stories"..., May 29 2008
- Burmese translation of Sahana complete!, May 17 2008
- Automated Infrastructure Podcast on IT Conversations, May 14 2008
- Structure and Velocity, May 11 2008
- Structure and Velocity, May 10 2008
- Disaster Technology for Myanmar/Burma aid workers, May 08 2008
- You Become what You Disrupt - (part two), April 14 2008
- Velocity preview at Web2.0 Expo, April 11 2008
- Data Center heating the Town Pool, April 04 2008
- What is Web Operations?, March 30 2008
- Amazon improves EC2 (by embracing failure), March 27 2008
- Trendalyzer view of the banking crisis, March 20 2008
- Paging systems and Conference Bridges for startups & small teams, March 10 2008
- Steve Souders asks: "How green is your web page?", March 08 2008
- Today's ETech Hack is Tomorrow's Critical Infrastructure..., March 05 2008
- US Judge censors WikiLeaks.org by ordering DNS records removed, February 19 2008
- Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning..., February 16 2008
- BarCampBank in San Francisco & New England, February 14 2008
- Understanding the undersea cable cuts... (updated: "fifth cable cut"), February 06 2008
- Egypt finds no ships in area of fiber cuts and unconfirmed reports of problems with a fourth cable, February 04 2008
- Cable cuts, conspiracies, and submarines..., February 04 2008
- Failure Happens: Transcontinental fiber-optic submarine cables, February 03 2008
- Mainstream acceptance of Twitter for disaster communication..., January 06 2008
- Visualization of names and words used by Presidential candidates, December 28 2007
- My favorite iPod accessory is my EFF Membership..., December 26 2007
- 'Computing in the Cloud' workshop hosted by Princeton University - January 14-15, December 22 2007
- "Personal privacy is protected because it is essential to liberty and the persuit of happiness", December 18 2007
- I've joined Etelos. Three infrastructure tools that made my first week easier..., December 13 2007
- Chart Chooser: Another great InfoVis tool from Juice Analytics, November 20 2007
- Tribute to honor Jim Grey will be held on May 31st, 2008 at UC Berkeley, November 18 2007
- Tribute to honor Jim Gray on May 31st, 2008 at UC Berkeley, November 18 2007
- O'Reilly launches Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference, November 16 2007
- Failure Happens: An SLA is just a contract & Data Centers are single points of failure too, November 13 2007
- Sun's counter-attack on NetApp and the defense of free software..., November 06 2007
- Failure Happens: Tazer-weilding thieves steal servers, attack staff, and cause outages at Chicago colocation facility, November 04 2007
- Failure Happens: Taser-wielding thieves steal servers, attack staff, and cause outages at Chicago colocation facility, November 04 2007
- Rick Dalzell's retirement tribute from Jeff Bezos, November 02 2007
- Simple Availability Report for Busy Teams, October 30 2007
- Operations is a competitive advantage... (Secret Sauce for Startups!), October 24 2007
- Web2Summit: Complexity + Tight Coupling = Catastrophe, October 20 2007
- Web2Summit: Views from the rest of the world, October 19 2007
- Web2Summit: Cisco announces the Eos open media platform, October 18 2007
- [Web2Summit] Apple announces iPhone SDK... Will third-party media apps be welcome?, October 17 2007
- Web2Summit: Apple announces iPhone SDK... Will third-party media apps be welcome?, October 17 2007
- Free Burma: Military attempts to seize UN hard drives and data, October 11 2007
- Google & IBM giving students a distributed systems lab using Hadoop, October 09 2007
- Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store, October 03 2007
- You Become what You Disrupt, October 02 2007
- Content Distribution Networks have doubled since last year, September 26 2007
- A great performance and operations blog, September 20 2007
- Biodiesel @ Burning Man and beyond..., September 08 2007
- Disaster Telecom after the earthquake in Peru, August 18 2007
- Failure Happens: A summary of the power outage at 365 Main, July 30 2007
- Unveiling the Beauty of Statistics, July 13 2007
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Webcast: The Best of Velocity - Choose Your Own Adventure 2: Electric Boogaloo
May 22, 2012
Highlights from this talk by Jesse Robbins and Adam Jacob talk include how marketing works, The No A**holes rule, Things that should be automated, Sysadmins, Devops and more. About Adam Jacob A twelve year system operations veteran, Adam is the...
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