SITREP

I frame the scenario of the distributed development world of cloud computing, dive into the vertical world of enterprise dev and then throw down the big question... how do we change the later world to work as well as the new world of distributed systems?

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1. Situational
   Report
   Where are we? A Train of Thought.
   

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2. Distributed Systems
   

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3. Enabled
   Compute
   Storage
   Network
   

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4. Super Computers
   1000’s of EC2 Instances
   In Memory
   SSD Backed
   

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5. S3, EBS, Glacier
   Table, Queue
   Object Storage
   Junk Trunks
   

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6. Developers
   Asynchronous Patterns
   Shifted Languages
   Shifted Stacks
   DevOps
   Leadership
   

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7. Vertical Systems
   

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8. CRUD & LOB Apps
   Faster Design
   Development Simplified
   Simple Scaling Options
   Enabled
   

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9. GSD
   Create, Read, Update & Delete
   Line of Business
   

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10. Development
    Faster?
    RAD / RUP / Agile / TLA Soup
    Known Patterns
    

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11. Simplified
    Vertical is Easy
    Known Objects, Known Ideals
    Architecture is Up & Down
    KISS !!
    

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12. Polarized Scaling
    Scale by Hardware...
    Scale by Tuning...
    

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13. Next...
    Moving into the future...
    

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14. Tooling
    Docker
    Vagrant
    JavaScript + Node.js
    PaaS
    ...others ??
    Multi-tenancy
    Programmable
    Hardware
    ...others ??
    

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15. The Future?
    

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16. Converged?
    

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17. Yikes!??!
    

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18. What do we need?
    Clarity
    

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19. How-to?
    ● Practices?
    ○ Documentation
    ○ Testing
    ● Standards?
    ○ Official
    ○ Industry
    ○ By use?
    ● New Tooling?
    

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20. Questions...
    1. What do developers in the industry need to make true distributed computing advances
    while drawing on the known elements of the vertical computing realm?
    2. What do we need as developers and leaders to more reliably advance the industry
    without setbacks.
    3. What do we need as leaders to move the industry forward to the next steps, stages and
    developments in converging technology?
    4. Are these even valid questions?
    

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