Said no CEO ever: Things that don't matter in the cloud

Cloud adoption has made some aspects of our jobs irrelevant, but this is a good thing. . . .Well, it’s a good thing as long as we know what doesn’t matter anymore. (“Doesn’t matter” really means “solved problem.”) It’s critically important to avoid spending time and resources on solved problems. If you’re new to the cloud, it might surprise you just how many problems are considered solved at this point.

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1. Said no CEO ever… Things that don't matter in the cloud. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 1
2. Things that don't matter in the cloud. — Twitter @caseywest — Email casey@geeknest.com — Web http://caseywest.com — LinkedIn /in/caseywest ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 2
3. Thanks, Pivotal. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 3
4. A little about me. — Principal Technologist, Cloud Foundry — Former technical lead, applications — Former technical lead, operations — Former VP Engineering — Ex-ten companies you never heard of — ☕ " # $ % & ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 4
5. I am just like you. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 5
6. I am just like you. May the burning bridges light my path. ! ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 6
7. This talk is about high expectations. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 7
8. Yes I know what I did there. High, cloud, clouds are up high, lol. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 8
9. Greenfield Project Expectations All you have to do is create something from thin air and compete with billion dollar companies. No big deal. All you have to do is… — Deliver faster than everyone else. — Never make a mistake. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 9
10. Brownfield Project Expectations All you have to do is modernize an existing application that makes all our revenue in order to compete with companies theoretically valued at a billion dollars. No big deal. Oh by the way… — Deliver faster than everyone else. — Never make a mistake. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 10
11. Awesome! ! "I can do this in six weeks! !" — You ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 11
12. Awesome! ! "Look I already built a container! ! "" — You ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 12
13. "Nobody cares. The people in the room don't even care." — My friend Ben's PhD advisor regarding his obsessive preparation for a presentation prior to his defense ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 13
14. Six months later… What have we shipped? ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 14
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18. "I appreciate the progress you made despite not delivering anything." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 18
19. "! What would you say the status is?" — Actual CEO ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 19
20. We spent a few weeks picking a linux distro. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 20
21. "Good job picking a linux distro." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 21
22. We also spent a few weeks automating security and package updates. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 22
23. "Good job patching the kernel." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 23
24. We also spent a few weeks figuring out the load balancer. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 24
25. "Excellent DNS entries. Your TTLs are the best." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 25
26. "Outstanding 'high availability' strategy." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 26
27. We also spent a couple weeks negotiating database access with DBAs. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 27
28. "Literally never say this again." — Actual CEO ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 28
29. "Well done manually generating and sharing secrets." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 29
30. We also spent a few weeks on a build pipeline to generate golden images. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 30
31. "Good job automating the automation so our automating is automated." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 31
32. We also spent a few weeks picking a container scheduler… ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 32
33. We also spent a few weeks picking a container scheduler… … but we still don't quite know how to work it yet. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 33
34. "✋" Thanks for using containers!" — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 34
35. We also spent a week creating a runbook. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 35
36. "Nice work deploying software." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 36
37. We also spent a couple weeks setting up log analytics. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 37
38. "Nicely done logging infrastructure." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 38
39. Finally, we also created monitoring and alerting systems. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 39
40. "I'm glad you built a monitoring system." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 40
41. Well, damn. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 41
42. We designed and started building a sophisticated system to run our software… ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 42
43. … and our CEO doesn't seem to care. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 43
44. That's depressing. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 44
45. What happened? We lost track of what matters. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 45
46. We got excited and solved all these problems: Linux system administration, security patching host operating systems, configuring DNS, load balancing, generating and managing credentials, baking golden images, building and running containers, deploying applications, monitoring services, and recovering from failure. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 46
47. Resume Driven Development0 1. Using tech you read about on hacker news because all the cool kids are talking about it and you're excited. 2. Deploying something to production, even though you don't know how it works, based on a blog post. 0 RDD term coined by Bridget Kromhout, @bridgetkromout on Twitter. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 47
48. Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting Tools, systems, and processes which do not improve the unique value your organization provides. Doesn't matter. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 48
49. Unique Business Value Tools, systems, and processes which do improve the unique value your organization provides. This does matter. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 49
50. What is Unique Business Value? Your actual code. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 50
51. What is Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting? Everything else. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 51
52. Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting: — Data Plane Services - Open vSwitch, IO Visor — Network Controllers - Open Daylight, ONOS — Carrier Networking - Open Platform for NFV — Network Management and Orchestration - OpenO — Virtual Machines - Xen Project ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 52
53. Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting: — Operating Systems - Linux — Containers - Open Container Initiative — VM Managers - Cloud Native Computing Foundation — Application Platforms - Cloud Foundry — Programming Frameworks - Node ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 53
54. What does the CEO care about? Code (Unique Business Value) 1. Increase velocity. 2. Decrease risk. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 54
55. "Good job adding value to the organization." — Actual CEO ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 55
56. @caseywest Let's be friends ! ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 56