london cloud summit 2014 - raising the tide: getting developers in the cloud

Raising the tide: gettingdevelopers into the cloud

http://talks.thesteve0.com/londoncloudconf

http://bit.ly/1fbwhKcPresented by:

Steven Pousty@TheSteve0 on Twitter, IRC, Instagram,

Ingress, SmugMug, and Github

Agenda1. Cover what I am seeing with devs and the cloud (mostly PaaS)2. Open discussion about moving us all forward

What did developers grow upwith

Hosted server

How to handle load

OK so what problems are theyfacing

1. They can't be ROOT2. Their deployment model changes3. App has to be built for horizontal scaling4. They expect it to be a VPS

What are we doing wrong1. NOT ENOUGH DOCUMENTATION2. Not teaching developers to create horizontally scalable

applications3. Not teaching developers to think in composable server pieces

rather than all minutiae4. Giving them a different local versus "cloud" experience.

My thoughts about where wego

1. Docker adds a lot to help us get closer to what they expect2. Build things as more composable units3. Help our app server and DB brethern to move their pieces to the

cloud4. Balance sysadmins needs with developer needs

Freewheeling discussion