Straightforward Capital and Advice for Technical Entrepreneurs

Enterprise Adoption of Cloud and DevOpsDivergent Ventures Managing Director Todd Warren (www.divergentvc.com )twitter @toddwseattle

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Agenda

• A short history of software development

• What technology and cultural trends are driving change

• Decisions and Puzzles in the current IT Landscape

• Scoring Cultural and Process Maturity Compared to Startups

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Where I come from

Beginning

• Small Teams

• Simple Toolset

• Limited Dependencies

• Static Deliverables

• 12 to 18 mo cycles

Middle

• Massive Teams

• Networked Tools

• High Interdependency

• Semi-Dynamic Delivery

• 24month+ Cycles

Today

• 2 Pizza Teams

• Cloud

• Service Composition

• Continuous Delivery

• Weekly to Daily Cycles

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Where We Came From

Source: US Military Computer Image Archive Courtesy of Michael John Muuss

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60’s

• Compiler (Grace Hopper)

• Large Scale Software Systems (Brooks/Humphreries)

70’s

• Modular, Portable Systems (UNIX)

• Source Control (SCCS)

• (Thompson, Kernighan, Ritchie..)

80’s

• Waterfall methodologies

• Modular and Object oriented systems (Ada etc.)

• Modeling Language (e.g. UML)

90’s

• Open Source Software

• Agile Methodologies

• Graphical Development Environments

• Patterns

2000’s

• ‘Data Center as the Computer’

• Stateless Protocols

• Eventually Consistent

A Brief History of Software Engineering

Today:

• ‘Dev Ops’

• Continuous Deployment

• Very Large Scale

Frameworks

• Cloud Services

• Distributed Source Code

Control

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Tech Trends

StorageCheaper, Denser(<$.05/GB)

Faster (Flash Below $5/GB)

DataSensors

Machine Activity

Human Activity

CloudElastic

Distributed

Need for Security

Utility Computing

Multi-DeviceMobile

Occasionally Connected

BYOD

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Mobile Networks(10PB/Day)

Unmanned AerialVehicles(100PB/Day)

Yesterday’s Big Data

is today’s Small Data

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Some of Divergent’s BetsValue Trend

Hardware Independent

OpenStack Implementation

Private Cloud

Elastic Computing

Realtime Spatial Data Analysis

at Scale

Even Bigger Data

Sensors

GeoSpatial

Message Queueing

Asynchronous Task Management

Composable Web Services

Elastic Scale

On-Demand Computing

Distributed Security for

SQL and Hadoop

Secure Data Access

Hadoop

Hybrid Application Enablement

Social Proof at Scale

for Brands

Mining of Social Data

Composable Services

Next Generation eCommerce

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Entrepreneurial API:

A cultural Revolution

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Part 1

Part 2

Agile Engineering

Part 3

Build

MeasureLearn

• Focus on Value

• “Minimum Viable Product”

• Analytics

• A/B Testing

• Cohort Analysis

• Scale for Good Enough

• Refactor, Revise, Redeploy

• Swarm to solve problems

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What does this mean for Enterprise?• Business Value is and should drive Cloud implementation

• Better connection with customers

• Better Access to information for decisions

• Will Hybrid and Private Cloud Really Happen?

• Private Cloud Nearly Flat in 20141

• Yet companies still indicate they will implement

• Refactoring Applications for composability, hybrid enablement

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1-Source:Rightscale 2015 state of the cloud

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Is your development culture prepared for the

new world?

Using Git and Github for better Management of Projects

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Mindset

Focus on Value Delivery: Build, Measure, Learn

Refactor to Enable

Compose vs. Build

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Questions and Discussion

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Contact Us:

http://www.divergentvc.com/itpro

Straightforward Capital and Advice for Technical Entrepreneurs

Office:

1652 20th Ave.

Seattle, WA 98122

Todd Warren (see http://toddwarreninc.com

Twitter: @toddwseattle

Contact Us: http://www.divergentvc.com/itpro