Doing Everything with Nothing: Ephemeralization (in the Cloud)

Closing keynote presented at SymfonyLive London 2014

Transcript

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

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2. David Zuelke
   

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5. dz@heroku.com
   

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6. @dzuelke
   

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

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8. EPHEM·ER·AL
   adjective or noun \i-ˈfem-rəl, -ˈfēm-; -ˈfe-mə-, -ˈfē-\
   
   lasting or existing only for a very short time
   

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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19. "do more and more with less and less,
    
    until eventually, you can do everything with nothing."
    

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20. EPHEMERALIZATION!
    

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21. nothing?
    

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

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

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

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

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27. ☁️
    

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

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

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

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

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

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

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34. Ephemeralization is about
    
    minimal visibility of components,
    
    which should be as simple as possible,
    
    and which should be as resilient as possible.
    

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

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36. PaaS lets you plug components together
    
    (and you don't have to manage them yourself)
    

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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  
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    $  git  push  heroku  master
    

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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45. "There is one outstandingly important fact about Spaceship Earth,
    
    and that is that no instruction book came with it."
    

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46. The End
    

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47. I'm @dzuelke, thank you for listening :)
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