Focus on What Matters

Both small startups and large organizations have the same choice to make, focus on what is important or spend time toiling with the ancillary details. No matter the size of your team, you still have to solve the same problems: code, testing, infrastructure, monitoring, availability and performance. But the time has never been better than now to let someone else solve those problems while you focus on what's most important to your business, your customers.

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1. CloudExpo 2012 CloudExpo 2012 Utilize the cloud to focus on what matters
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11. CloudExpo 2012 Chris Kelly Happiness Engineer @amateurhuman ckelly@newrelic.com
12. CloudExpo 2012 @newrelic newrelic.com
13. NOVEMBER IS NOW MOVEMBER :{ NEWRELIC.COM/movember TRIES NEW RELIC WE’RE DONATING $10 EVERY TIME A NEW USER
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16. CloudExpo 2012 The Cloud!
17. CloudExpo 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Peak search volume↧ Zero ↧ Cloud Computing
18. CloudExpo 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Peak search volume↧ Zero ↧ Cloud Computing
19. CloudExpo 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Peak search volume↧ Zero ↧ Cloud Computing SaaS
20. CloudExpo 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Peak search volume↧ Zero ↧ Cloud Computing SaaS PaaS
21. CloudExpo 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Peak search volume↧ Zero ↧ Cloud Computing SaaS PaaS IaaS
22. CloudExpo 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Cloud Computing Amazon S3
23. CloudExpo 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Cloud Computing Amazon EC2
24. CloudExpo 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Cloud Computing Lean Startup
25. CloudExpo 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Cloud Computing DevOps
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27. CloudExpo 2012 what matters
28. CloudExpo 2012 ? what matters
29. CloudExpo 2012 Stuff that matters
30. CloudExpo 2012 Stuff we need to do Stuff that matters
31. CloudExpo 2012 Stuff we need to do Stuff that matters Stuff our users want
32. CloudExpo 2012 Stuff our users want Stuff we’ll probably never get to
33. CloudExpo 2012 Stuff we need to do Stuff that matters Stuff our users want
34. CloudExpo 2012 Stuff we need to do Stuff we don’t have time to do
35. CloudExpo 2012 Stuff we need to do Stuff that matters Stuff our users want
36. CloudExpo 2012 A = { things you are good at } B = { things you spend your time on } A ⊊ B
37. CloudExpo 2012 Things you spend your time on Things you’re good at
38. CloudExpo 2012 a = { thing you are best at } b = { thing you spend the most time on } a == b #=> true
39. CloudExpo 2012 WHAT DO YOU
40. CloudExpo 2012 WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE
41. CloudExpo 2012 WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE BEST AT?
42. CloudExpo 2012 Stuff we need to do Stuff that matters Stuff our users want
43. CloudExpo 2012 Stuff our users want
44. CloudExpo 2012 Stuff our users want
45. CloudExpo 2012 users
46. CloudExpo 2012 We don’t know what users want.
47. CloudExpo 2012 We don’t know what users want. Users don’t know what users want.
48. CloudExpo 2012 We don’t know what users want. Users don’t know what users want. No one knows anything.
49. CloudExpo 2012 Measure Learn Build
50. CloudExpo 2012 Agile
51. CloudExpo 2012 Agile velocity backlog retrospective standup scrum sprint timebox TDD iteration pairing kanban
52. CloudExpo 2012 agile
53. CloudExpo 2012 agilis nimble,quick agile agere move,drive
54. CloudExpo 2012 nimble,quick move,drive
55. CloudExpo 2012 nimble,quick move,drive
56. CloudExpo 2012 nimble,quick frictionless move,drive
57. CloudExpo 2012 frictionless
58. CloudExpo 2012 frictionless { development,release, operations,metrics }
59. CloudExpo 2012 Source Control Automated Testing Continuous Deployment Infrastructure Availability Monitoring Performance
60. CloudExpo 2012 Source Control
61. CloudExpo 2012 Automated Testing
62. CloudExpo 2012 Infrastructure
63. CloudExpo 2012 Availability
64. CloudExpo 2012 Monitoring
65. CloudExpo 2012 Performance
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75. CloudExpo 2012 WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE BEST AT?
76. CloudExpo 2012 Todo: ☐ Utilize the cloud ☐ Focus on what matters ☐ Contribute to Movember
77. CloudExpo 2012 ဢऐ
78. CloudExpo 2012 Credits Focus Focus Muranovic Takumovsky http://www.flickr.com/photos/takumovsky_m/6982635018 Rabbit Samuel Fine, Noun Project http://thenounproject.com/noun/rabbit/#icon-No5354