The Paradox of Progress - Jason K Jackson

My first exposure to a DevOps Days was in 2010. I was an early adopter of most of the tools, took part in the heated iClassify debate, was contributing to Chef before it had a name, back when it was still a pet project at HJK Solutions.. As things evolved, we tried the offshoots that we hoped would fill the gaps.. MCollective, opscode-agent, but really we were just trading one problem for another..

DevOps Days was started in this gap, and over the years I have seen more and more vendor and product encroachment, and fewer people (especially outside of SF) who grasp the roots and the spirit out of which this event was born.

I will be talking about the original spirit of DevOps Days, which i feel started in 1942, and has mutated into a flavor specific to our modern world. I will not be discussing any vendor products, and this is not a sales pitch for anything.

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1. 1 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. @jasonkjackson Jason K Jackson Pivotal Field CTO APJ
2. 2 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. @jasonkjackson
3. 3 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Welcome to DevOps Days!
4. 4 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. A quick agenda: •  Free market economies 1942 •  Chinese history •  Things that make things fail •  Banana sales •  Heads that talk •  Tribal signaling •  Not dying
5. 5 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. “Gale of creative destruction” a "process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one." Free Market’s messy way of delivering progress
6. 6 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. A new era begins at the demise of another.
7. 7 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. A Chinese Example
8. 8 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Crossbow Han Dynasty 500 BC
9. 9 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Gun Powder Song Dynasty 1000 AD
10. 10 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Hand Gun Yuan Dynasty 1300 AD
11. 11 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Mongols 1300 AD Defeated by Chinese in battle No gun powder
12. 12 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Europe 1400 AD Bought gun powder from the Mongols
13. 13 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. The lesson is simple
14. 14 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. If you discover gun powder – Stop selling crossbows.
15. 15 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Fast forward a quick 600 years..
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17. 17 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Walmart - the retailer who dominated the world •  If Walmart were a country, it’s GDP would be 28th in the world, ahead of Austria and just behind Norway •  11k stores in 27 countries. •  2.2 million employees – roughly the same as the Chinese army. •  Sells a billion pounds of bananas a year •  Biggest business is teen sportswear, Halloween candy and yarn. •  Earned 485 billion in revenue, outpaced number 2, Exxon, by 103 billion.
18. 18 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
19. 19 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Herein lies the paradox of progress
20. 20 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. The existing order must fail.
21. 21 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Software is changing Industries
22. 22 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Software is changing
23. 23 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Who is your competition in a user-centric world?
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26. 26 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Does your software remind you of this?
27. 27 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
28. 28 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. It takes a platform… 28 Pivotal CF Spring Cloud
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30. 30 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
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32. 32 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Wouldn’t it be awesome, to work with these folks? @jasonkjackson