Cloud Applications:
The Next Frontier
Prepared for [NAME]
March 14, 2006
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How IT Has Changed
Characteristic Old IT
Cloud IT
Infrastructure access
Trouble ticket -- weeks
Immediate self-service
Access mechanism
Approved devices
BYOD/IoT
Resources
Dedicated
Pooled
Application scaling
Long-term
Immediate elasticity
Cost assignment
Organizational allocation
Usage-based
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What will the IT of Tomorrow Look Like?
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HISTORY CAN HELP
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April 1, 1913
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The Vendor Side of Mass Production
US Automakers
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200
1940
17
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The User Side of Mass Production: Phase 1
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The The User Side of Mass Production: Phase 2
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To Paraphrase Winston Churchill
The battle of infrastructure
is over ... The battle of
applications is about to
begin
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San Francisco taxi trips
down 65% since June 2013
due to Uber
San Francisco Chronicle, 09/17/14
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IT: From Back Office to Front Line
Industry Characteristic
Taxi
Uber
Key requirement
Capital & medallion
IT
Competition
Other taxi companies
Taxi industry
Convenience
Low
High
Customer Knowledge
None
Enormous
Geography
Local
International
IT Use
None
Core
Profitability
Industrial
Software
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The CSP Solution: Standardize on Me
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Enterprise IT has no red or blue states
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Enterprise IT is all purple states
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The Container Solution
Won’t Docker solve
the cloud application problem?
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No more than the shipping container
solved the supply chain problem
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The Trouble Ticket is DOA
• Manual == delays
• Manual == errors
• Handles everything as an
exception
• Asserts organizational power
• Solution is DevOps, whatever
it’s called
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Architect Applications for the Future
• The “approved stack” is dead
• Microservices and APIs
• Applications are assembled
and glued
• Ops simpler and more
complex
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Shared Artifacts Across Application Lifecycle
• Rework == delays
• Rework == complex
debugging
• Accelerates agility
• Imposes teamwork
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Don’t Build the New Legacy
• Smart person + 3 years:
“How’s that system work?”
• Future-proof your application
pipeline
• Seek commercial product or
commercially-supported OSS
product
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Design for Scale
• Application scale 10X:
• Numbers
• Scale
• Load variability
• Don’t get caught short on
infrastructure
• Load testing before
production
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Leverage a PaaS
• Avoids developers managing
plumbing
• Supports purple state reality
• Provides preconfigured
common services
• Enables “late binding”
deployment choice
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The IT Infrastructure of the Future
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• Download Stackato:
• 4 GB micro cluster: developer-oriented
• 20 GB full cluster: production-capable
• Bernard Golden
• Vice President Strategy
• bernard.golden@activestate.com
• @bernardgolden
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Appendix
Bernard Golden
Vice President, Strategy ActiveState Software
20+ years experience:
•
Enterprise IT shops,
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Enterprise software
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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
“AWS for Dummies” named one of top 5 cloud
computing books
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2013
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2011
2012
2007
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To Avoid This Fate
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