IT Revolution is gene-kim's publishing and events company, founded in 2013 in Portland, Oregon. It functions as the primary institutional infrastructure for the enterprise-facing wing of the DevOps movement — producing the movement's major texts, organizing its enterprise conference, and hosting community discussions.
The publishing catalog includes the foundational DevOps books: the-phoenix-project, the-devops-handbook, accelerate-book, the-unicorn-project, wiring-the-winning-organization, and investments-unlimited, among others. By controlling the publishing house, Kim ensured that the movement's primary texts remained connected to the movement's mission rather than being distributed through general business publishing. The books are sold broadly (including through traditional retail channels), but IT Revolution retains the editorial identity.
The DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES), which IT Revolution organizes, began in 2014 and targets the enterprise context specifically. This was a deliberate institutional complement to devopsdays-conference, which serves the community-practitioner audience. Enterprise organizations adopting DevOps face different challenges than startups or web-native companies — organizational structure, compliance, legacy systems, procurement — and DOES created a venue for those conversations.
IT Revolution also runs the DevOps Enterprise Forum, a practitioner community for enterprise practitioners, and maintains an active blog and podcast ecosystem. This content infrastructure serves the ongoing community function beyond the books and conferences.
The organizational model is a common one in technology movements: a founder-controlled institution that functions as both publisher and convener. O'Reilly Media played a similar role for the open source and web communities; Pragmatic Bookshelf for Agile. IT Revolution's specific contribution is giving the DevOps movement's enterprise adoption a coherent institutional home separate from the vendor ecosystem (Docker, Puppet, Chef, etc.) that might otherwise define "DevOps" through product marketing.