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Hello, everyone. My guest today is Jesse Robbins. He's the CEO and founder of Orion Lab.

Before Orion, he founded

Chef and is widely recognized for transforming the way companies like Facebook, Google, and Yahoo,

manage complex internet systems. He also founded the Velocity Conference and helped start the DevOps

movement. Jesse, are you ready to take us to the top? Sure am. We are joking before this. My

dev team at Heyo, they're always going. We need to

update. We need to, you know, get on Chef, do all this stuff. Briefly tell us what Chef is and how

you worked with Facebook and these guys. So, Jeff's an automation platform that makes

infrastructure as code. Before, Chef, I worked at Amazon where I got to understand sort of problems

at massive scale.

So we founded Chef to help developers and systems engineers in the world at large

run bigger, better systems.

And so many companies use it in order to power their infrastructure and what we like to think

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