london cloud summit 2014 - raising the tide: getting developers in the cloud
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Doing some introspection on the state of PaaS and developer adoptionTRANSCRIPT
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