"failing fast" for the uptight
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“Failing fast” for the uptight
March 2015
@cote
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Hello!
@cote – Director, Technical
Marketing at Pivotal
Former industry analyst at 451
Research and RedMonk
Corporate Strategy & M&A at Dell
Recovering code monkey
More: http://cote.io or [email protected]
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Have you heard these before?
“Fail fast!”
“Let’s make new mistakes today!”
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Your company is probably not going to last
Source: “Creative destruction in the S&P500 index,” Jan 2014.
“At the current
churn rate, 75% of
the S&P 500 firms
in 2011 will be
replaced by new
firms entering the
S&P500 in 2027.”
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Traditional IT vendors are feeling it too
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Ten years ago…
• PuppetConfiguration Management is invented
2005
• Launch of AmazonAWS EC2 Beta
• Google BigTablePaper published
• Facebook becomes publicly available
2006 • Netflix launches Video-on-Demand
• First release of open source Hadoop
2007
• Apple launches the App Store
• Amazon AWS comes out of Beta
2008
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It’s not enough to just get a blinking cursor
Note: n=140 respondents “who had private cloud in place” at Gartner’s Datacenter conference, Dec 2014.
Source: "Problems Encountered by 95% of Private Clouds," Tom Bittman, Gartner, Feb 2015.
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Beyond the blinking cursor, your platform
Build Test/VerifyPackage
repository
Version
Control
Infrastructure
Platform(IaaS, PaaS, VMs)
Production
Concerns(monitoring, scaling, etc.)
Feedback Loop
Specify Code
Development CI/CD Ops
Competitive advantage
goes hereYak-shaving & fat boy scouts
Source: yak-shaving overview; fat boy scouts as a metaphor for slowing down the pipeline; fat boy scout image from GilJimbo.
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I know it seems like I’m saying this…
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Don’t worry, we got your happy trees!
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One awesome example of a full cloud platform
More details: http://pivotal.io/platform-as-a-service/pivotal-cloud-foundry
After just 1 year in GA:
• ~$40m in bookings
• 40+ customers
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First step: admit you have no idea what’s going on
How most
businesses
think they’re
doing
How smart businesses
know they’re doing
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Thanks!
@cote | [email protected]
Slides: http://cote.io/fail-fast