Doing Everything with Nothing: Ephemeralization (in the Cloud)

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1. EPHEMERALIZATION (in our world and in the ☁️)

2. David Zuelke

3. None
4. None

5. dz@heroku.com

6. @dzuelke

7. EPHEM·ER·AL·I·ZA·TION (in our world and in the ☁️)

8. EPHEM·ER·AL adjective or noun \i-ˈfem-rəl, -ˈfēm-; -ˈfe-mə-, -ˈfē-\ lasting or

   existing only for a very short time

9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KatherineBigWalls.jpg

10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pont_mycénien_de_Kazarma_2.jpg

11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Velia.jpg

12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pont_du_Diable_2.JPG

13. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AcueductoSegovia_edit1.jpg

14. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ironbridge_6.jpg

15. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Garabit.jpg

16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Akashi_Bridge.JPG

17. R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER (his friends called him "Bucky")

18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BuckminsterFuller1.jpg

19. "do more and more with less and less, until eventually,

    you can do everything with nothing."

20. EPHEMERALIZATION!

21. nothing?

22. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oxford_-_Ultimate_Palace_Cinema_-_0084.jpg

23. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VHS-cassette.jpg

24. None

25. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LG_smart_TV.jpg

26. "but Netflix doesn't run on nothing!"

27. ☁️

28. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:CERN_Server_03.jpg

29. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:CERN_Server_03.jpg

30. but it runs on smaller parts, on IaaS, not on

    a supercomputer

31. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:IBM_Blue_Gene_P_supercomputer.jpg

32. on IaaS, the components are still visible, and resilience must

    be dealt with

33. PLATFORMS-AS-A-SERVICE more with less, once again

34. Ephemeralization is about minimal visibility of components, which should be

    as simple as possible, and which should be as resilient as possible.

35. Bucky called this the "kit of parts".

36. PaaS lets you plug components together (and you don't have

    to manage them yourself)

37. $  heroku  create   $   $  heroku  addons:add  heroku-­‐postgresql

      $  heroku  addons:add  mongohq   $  heroku  addons:add  redistogo   $   $  heroku  addons:add  cloudamqp   $   $  heroku  addons:add  newrelic   $   $  heroku  addons:add  gemfury:hello   $   $  git  push  heroku  master

38. you just did more with less, almost like magic

39. except it's not magic - you just can't see the

    parts anymore!

40. you use them and your app becomes portable and reusable

41. and so, step by step, does all the infrastructure underneath

42. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBMPortableModularDataCenter.jpg

43. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mtl._Biosphere_in_Sept._2004.jpg

44. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Epcot07.jpg

45. "There is one outstandingly important fact about Spaceship Earth, and

    that is that no instruction book came with it."

46. The End

47. I'm @dzuelke, thank you for listening :) rate my talk!