DevOps and the CloudAchieving Faster Application Delivery
Bernard GoldenVice President of Strategy, ActiveState
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Bernard Golden
20+ years experience:• Enterprise IT shops,• Enterprise software• Global consultancy• Venture capital
Cloud Computing Advisor, CIO Magazine
Weekly blog read by 50K+ people throughout world
Named a “Top Ten Influential Person in Cloud Computing” by Wired.com
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What is the state of cloud computing today?
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“Provisioning a VM used to take 6 weeks and 117 trouble tickets. With our cloud environment it now takes 10 minutes.”
Scott Carlson, Cloud Infrastructure Architect, PayPal
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No Friction Infrastructure is the New Normal
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Computing Costs Plummet
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“Softwareis eating the world”
Mark Andreessen
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IT requirements are gettingmuch, much larger
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A Computing Truism: Removing One Bottleneck Exposes Another
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The Next Cloud Bottleneck: Applications
9 Rules for the New World of Applications
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The Trouble Ticket is DOA
Trouble
Ticket
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Beware Self-Inflicted Solutions
• Home-grown DevOps
solution becomes the new
legacy• Ensure solution meets
application requirements –
today and tomorrow• Seek commercial product or
commercially-supported OSS
product
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Composable, Not Monolithic
• The “approved stack” is dead• Applications are assembled and
glued• Distributed dev teams the norm• Independent assembly
• Components respond
individually• Changing load conditions• Outage support
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Agile Across Application Lifecycle
• VMs on demand insufficient
• Application delivery must
accelerate
• Yes, this means DevOps
• No manual intervention
• Remember how trouble
tickets are dead?
• No change control, either
• Common artifacts across groups
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Scalable
• Application loads more erratic
than ever• Applications must be elastic• Automatic scaling a must• Infrastructure must have capacity• Load testing before production
load
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Polyglot
• That “approved stack” redux• Applications assembled from
disparate components• Developers work in familiar,
comfortable languages• Operations is more complex,
inevitably
Source: Redmonk
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API Enabled
• Not just “consumer” apps
• AT&T receives 7.8 billion API
calls/month
• Integration with internal apps
• Extension to external services
• Service, not object design
• Key management issues• IAM control
• Traffic throttling
• Availability
• Ease of access
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Client Independent
• BYOD understates reality• Challenge is app, not device• Mobile tip of iceberg• IoT looming on horizon• A cause of erratic load
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Framework Based
• Growth of applications precludes
managing plumbing• Hybrid cloud mandates portability• Preconfigured common services• “Late binding” deployment decision• Critical for the future of IT
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Summary
Applications are the next cloud bottleneck.
9 Rules for the New World of Applications• The trouble ticket is DOA• Beware self-inflicted solutions• Composable, not monolithic• Agile across the application lifestyle• Scalable• Polyglot• API enabled• Client independent• Framework based
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What is the Future of IT?
• You are the future of your company• If you can’t match AWS agility and
price, your future is infrastructure
management, not asset ownership• Expect a tidal wave of application
demand• New design paradigms are arriving
Thank you!
Bernard Golden
Vice President, Strategy
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