Winning in Production - RubyConf AU 2016 Gold Coast

My 10 years of history lessons of what "winning in production" requires; leading to the discovery of Cloud Foundry. There is a 12 minute demo of Cloud Foundry usage that is missing from static slides here.

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1. WINNING IN PRODUCTION DR NIC WILLIAMS STARK & WAYNE
2. RUBY ON RAILS 10 YEARS AGO
3. WINNING IN PRODUCTION REQUIRES YOU TO BE IN PRODUCTION @DRNIC - STARKANDWAYNE.COM
4. @DRNIC - STARKANDWAYNE.COM BARRIERS TO PRODUCTION ▸ Technical - didn’t know how to deploy Rails ▸ Institutional - “am I allowed to deploy Rails?”
5. git push heroku 7 YEARS AGO
6. @DRNIC - STARKANDWAYNE.COM HEROKU - WINNING IN EARLY PRODUCTION ▸ Technical - it just worked from day 1 ▸ Institutional - consulting clients happy ▸ Financial - free to get started
7. HEROKU - WINNING IN EARLY PRODUCTION ▸ Technical - it just worked from day 1 ▸ Institutional - consulting clients happy ▸ Financial - free to get started @DRNIC - STARKANDWAYNE.COM HEROKU - BARRIERS TO LONG-TERM PRODUCTION ▸ Technical - how does it work when not working? ▸ Institutional - public cloud?! ▸ Financial - $35 dyno on $5 worth of AWS server
8. ‘MERICA! 5.5 YEARS AGO
11. KEEP DEV, STAGING AND PROD ENVIRONMENTS THE SAME @DRNIC - STARKANDWAYNE.COM
12. FIND A PLATFORM ABSTRACTION TEXT
13. VMWARE VISIT 4 YEARS AGO
14. @DRNIC - STARKANDWAYNE.COM CLOUD FOUNDRY - WINNING IN PRODUCTION ▸ Technical - open source ▸ Institutional - run in own data centre ▸ Financial - deploy OSS, Pivotal CF, or IBM BlueMix Local ▸ Production - same experience from Month 1 to Month 60
15. STARK & WAYNE 3 YEARS AGO
16. 25 STAFF END OF LAST YEAR
17. 5000+ APPS LAST YEAR Across our customers
20. STILL CALL ‘STRAYA HOME TODAY
24. @DRNIC - STARKANDWAYNE.COM WINNING IN PRODUCTION ▸ Elevate developers - don’t do undifferentiated heavy lifting ▸ Turbo charge developers - speed wins ▸ Foster empathy - run what you wrote
25. YOU DIDN’T MENTION DOCKER. Someone in this room TEXT
26. cf push myapp -o my/image docker docker docker…
27. WINNING IN PRODUCTION DR NIC WILLIAMS STARK & WAYNE