The Cloud Should be Fun … and if not, you're probably doing it wrong

Is the cloud helping, or hurting? Does the cloud make our work more enjoyable? Is that even the right question?
Should our work even be enjoyable, or should we resign ourselves to ever longer yaml files?
It may not be the explanation you should put in your end of year assessment, but “fun” is actually a reasonable heuristic for evaluating technologies.
The cloud can be an amazingly fun place - but only if we do it right. In this talk, Holly will share some of the organisational and technical anti-patterns that turn cloud from the good place into the bad place, and why happiness is important.

Transcript

1. The Cloud Should Be Fun (and if it’s not you’re probably doing it wrong) Holly Cummins Red Hat 13 December, 2022 WTF
2. I help build Quarkus
3. cloud should be fun? WTF? image: DALL-E
4. what is fun?
5. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus partying?
6. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus silly pictures?
7. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus jokes?
8. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus (ducks make jokes funnier)
9. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus joy?
10. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus happiness?
11. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus all that, and …
12. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Photo by Linearahandmade@etsy Exploration
13. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Photo by Linearahandmade@etsy Exploration > Hello, World
14. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Photo by William Warby Puzzle
15. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Photo by William Warby Puzzle Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException: WhyWhyWhyIsThisHappeningNullPointerException at StackTraceExample.method111(StackTraceExample.java:15) at StackTraceExample.method11(StackTraceExample.java:11) at StackTraceExample.method1(StackTraceExample.java:7) at StackTraceExample.main(StackTraceExample.java:3)
16. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Games
17. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Games
18. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Play
19. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Play
20. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus
21. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus
22. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Positive affect
23. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Katie Bouman, discovering that her algorithm for imaging black holes worked. It feels good
24. why fun is valuable
25. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” Aristotle
26. job satisfaction is the no. 1 predictor of organizational performance
27. @holly_cummins #RedHat
28. @holly_cummins #RedHat “so, what was said on the conference call?”
29. @holly_cummins #RedHat “so, what was said on the conference call?” “I have no idea …
30. @holly_cummins #RedHat “so, what was said on the conference call?” “I have no idea … but they were laughing, so the project is OK. ”
31. @holly_cummins #RedHat “so, what was said on the conference call?” “I have no idea … but they were laughing, so the project is OK. ” a team that doesn’t laugh together doesn’t want to work together
32. @holly_cummins #RedHat “my contractors are in their zone of competence.”
33. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Studies have shown... Employee fun
34. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Studies have shown... Employee fun
35. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Studies have shown... Employee fun Less sick leave
36. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Studies have shown... Employee fun Less sick leave Harder working
37. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus Studies have shown... Employee fun Less sick leave Harder working More productivity
38. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus
39. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus “Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.”
40. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus
41. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus https:/ /www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/eproto/workingpapers/happinessproductivity.pdf
42. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus “Individuals [who just watched a comedy video] have approximately
43. @holly_cummins #RedHat Photo by Dan Cook on Unsplash
44. @holly_cummins #RedHat Photo by Dan Cook on Unsplash laughter:
45. @holly_cummins #RedHat Photo by Dan Cook on Unsplash laughter: defuses tense situations
46. @holly_cummins #RedHat Photo by Dan Cook on Unsplash laughter: defuses tense situations creates team cohesion
47. @holly_cummins #RedHat Photo by Dan Cook on Unsplash laughter: defuses tense situations creates team cohesion is a nice muscle workout
48. achieving fun
49. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus laugh, eat cake, wear silly hats fun execution plan
50. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus find un-fun things & get rid of them laugh, eat cake, wear silly hats fun execution plan
51. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus don’t prohibit fun find un-fun things & get rid of them laugh, eat cake, wear silly hats fun execution plan
52. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus don’t prohibit fun find un-fun things & get rid of them laugh, eat cake, wear silly hats fun execution plan
53. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus don’t prohibit fun find un-fun things & get rid of them laugh, eat cake, wear silly hats fun execution plan
54. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus don’t prohibit fun find un-fun things & get rid of them laugh, eat cake, wear silly hats fun execution plan
55. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus flow feels good
56. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus flow feels good
57. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus friction saps energy
58. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus friction saps energy
59. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus 
 A process being unfun is a red flag that it’s not adding value.
60. is cloud fun?
61. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus is cloud fun?
62. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus what is cloud-y?
63. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus cost savings what is cloud-y?
64. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus cost savings what is cloud-y?
65. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus cost savings elasticity what is cloud-y?
66. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus cost savings elasticity what is cloud-y?
67. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus cost savings elasticity exotic hardware what is cloud-y?
68. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus cost savings elasticity exotic hardware what is cloud-y?
69. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus cost savings elasticity exotic hardware low friction & fast speed to market what is cloud-y?
70. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus cost savings elasticity exotic hardware low friction & fast speed to market what is cloud-y?
71. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus cloud brings new ways of working
72. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus “devops helps make our lives humane and win in the marketplace.” -Gene Kim
73. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus SRE dedicated to eliminating toil from ops because toil isn’t valuable.
74. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus SRE dedicated to eliminating toil from ops because toil isn’t valuable. toil isn’t fun.
75. no really is cloud actually fun?
78. ©Katerina Kamprani - The Uncomfortable Used with permission - thanks! bad tools
79. “the CEO bought [tool] after a conversation on a golf course … ©Katerina Kamprani - The Uncomfortable Used with permission - thanks! bad tools
80. “the CEO bought [tool] after a conversation on a golf course … … eight years ago … ©Katerina Kamprani - The Uncomfortable Used with permission - thanks! bad tools
81. “the CEO bought [tool] after a conversation on a golf course … … eight years ago … and everyone still has to use it” ©Katerina Kamprani - The Uncomfortable Used with permission - thanks! bad tools
82. bad tools
83. inconsistent tools
84. inconsistent tools
85. too many tools
86. too many tools
87. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus
88. aside: what’s the point of laughing at something? to show we get it
89. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus too much governance
90. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus too much governance
91. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus is OpenShift fun?
92. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus “this provisioning software is broken” @holly_cummins
93. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus what we sold “this provisioning software is broken” 10 minute provision-time @holly_cummins
94. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus what we sold “this provisioning software is broken” 10 minute provision-time 3 month provision- time what the client thought they’d got @holly_cummins
95. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus what we sold “this provisioning software is broken” 10 minute provision-time 3 month provision- time what the client thought they’d got the reason 84-step pre-approval process @holly_cummins
96. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus
97. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus Provider A Provider B “we’re going to change cloud provider
98. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus Provider A Provider B “we’re going to change cloud provider to fix our procurement process!”
99. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus Provider A Provider B “we’re going to change cloud provider to fix our procurement process!”
100. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus “your laptop can either access the cloud servers … or access our jira.”
101. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus “it takes us a week to start coding.”
102. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus friction costs: developers leave
103. fixing it
104. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus
105. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus
106. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus automation
107. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus automation computers don’t expect to have fun (yet)
108. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus automation revenge! computers don’t expect to have fun (yet)
109. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus automation revenge! computers don’t expect to have fun (yet) let them do the tedious tasks
110. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus automation revenge! computers don’t expect to have fun (yet) let them do the tedious tasks bonus: automating stuff is fun
111. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus go PaaS
112. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus
113. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus funtainer: ‘serverless container’
114. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus function-container: ‘serverless container’
115. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus
116. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus
117. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus
118. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus
119. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus go managed
120. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus go PaaS image: DALL-E
121. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus DevEx
122. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus DX
123. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus (remember, quarkus is built for developer joy and easy cloud-ing)
124. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus but …
125. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus friction is mostly not about the products and tools
126. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus make the easiest thing to do the right thing to do
127. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus DevOps
128. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus DevSecOps
129. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus three economies resolve a tension by finding a mutual win
130. @holly_cummins #RedHat #Quarkus flow and feedback make things fun optimise for flow optimise for feedback
131. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus judge, judge, judge …
132. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus are you doing it wrong? judge, judge, judge …
133. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus are you doing it wrong? it’s ok if it’s not all-fun-all-the-time judge, judge, judge …
134. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus are you doing it wrong? it’s ok if it’s not all-fun-all-the-time some platforms are kind of hard judge, judge, judge …
135. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus are you doing it wrong? it’s ok if it’s not all-fun-all-the-time some platforms are kind of hard process change is hard judge, judge, judge …
136. @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io #RedHat #Quarkus are you doing it wrong? it’s ok if it’s not all-fun-all-the-time some platforms are kind of hard process change is hard people are hard! judge, judge, judge …
138. thank you @holly_cummins@hachyderm.io Red Hat