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Said no CEO ever… Things that don't matter in the cloud. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 1

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Things that don't matter in the cloud. — Twitter @caseywest — Email casey@geeknest.com — Web http://caseywest.com — LinkedIn /in/caseywest ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 2

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Thanks, Pivotal. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 3

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A little about me. — Principal Technologist, Cloud Foundry — Former technical lead, applications — Former technical lead, operations — Former VP Engineering — Ex-ten companies you never heard of — ☕ " # $ % & ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 4

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I am just like you. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 5

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I am just like you. May the burning bridges light my path. ! ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 6

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This talk is about high expectations. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 7

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Yes I know what I did there. High, cloud, clouds are up high, lol. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 8

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Greenfield Project Expectations All you have to do is create something from thin air and compete with billion dollar companies. No big deal. All you have to do is… — Deliver faster than everyone else. — Never make a mistake. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 9

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Brownfield Project Expectations All you have to do is modernize an existing application that makes all our revenue in order to compete with companies theoretically valued at a billion dollars. No big deal. Oh by the way… — Deliver faster than everyone else. — Never make a mistake. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 10

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Awesome! ! "I can do this in six weeks! !" — You ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 11

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Awesome! ! "Look I already built a container! ! "" — You ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 12

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"Nobody cares. The people in the room don't even care." — My friend Ben's PhD advisor regarding his obsessive preparation for a presentation prior to his defense ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 13

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Six months later… What have we shipped? ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 14

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! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 15

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! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 16

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! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 17

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"I appreciate the progress you made despite not delivering anything." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 18

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"! What would you say the status is?" — Actual CEO ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 19

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We spent a few weeks picking a linux distro. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 20

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"Good job picking a linux distro." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 21

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We also spent a few weeks automating security and package updates. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 22

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"Good job patching the kernel." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 23

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We also spent a few weeks figuring out the load balancer. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 24

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"Excellent DNS entries. Your TTLs are the best." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 25

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"Outstanding 'high availability' strategy." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 26

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We also spent a couple weeks negotiating database access with DBAs. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 27

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"Literally never say this again." — Actual CEO ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 28

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"Well done manually generating and sharing secrets." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 29

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We also spent a few weeks on a build pipeline to generate golden images. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 30

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"Good job automating the automation so our automating is automated." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 31

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We also spent a few weeks picking a container scheduler… ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 32

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We also spent a few weeks picking a container scheduler… … but we still don't quite know how to work it yet. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 33

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"✋" Thanks for using containers!" — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 34

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We also spent a week creating a runbook. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 35

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"Nice work deploying software." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 36

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We also spent a couple weeks setting up log analytics. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 37

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"Nicely done logging infrastructure." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 38

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Finally, we also created monitoring and alerting systems. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 39

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"I'm glad you built a monitoring system." — No CEO Ever ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 40

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Well, damn. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 41

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We designed and started building a sophisticated system to run our software… ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 42

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… and our CEO doesn't seem to care. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 43

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That's depressing. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 44

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What happened? We lost track of what matters. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 45

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We got excited and solved all these problems: Linux system administration, security patching host operating systems, configuring DNS, load balancing, generating and managing credentials, baking golden images, building and running containers, deploying applications, monitoring services, and recovering from failure. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 46

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Resume Driven Development0 1. Using tech you read about on hacker news because all the cool kids are talking about it and you're excited. 2. Deploying something to production, even though you don't know how it works, based on a blog post. 0 RDD term coined by Bridget Kromhout, @bridgetkromout on Twitter. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 47

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Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting Tools, systems, and processes which do not improve the unique value your organization provides. Doesn't matter. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 48

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Unique Business Value Tools, systems, and processes which do improve the unique value your organization provides. This does matter. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 49

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What is Unique Business Value? Your actual code. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 50

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What is Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting? Everything else. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 51

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Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting: — Data Plane Services - Open vSwitch, IO Visor — Network Controllers - Open Daylight, ONOS — Carrier Networking - Open Platform for NFV — Network Management and Orchestration - OpenO — Virtual Machines - Xen Project ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 52

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Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting: — Operating Systems - Linux — Containers - Open Container Initiative — VM Managers - Cloud Native Computing Foundation — Application Platforms - Cloud Foundry — Programming Frameworks - Node ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 53

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What does the CEO care about? Code (Unique Business Value) 1. Increase velocity. 2. Decrease risk. ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 54

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"Good job adding value to the organization." — Actual CEO ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 55

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@caseywest Let's be friends ! ! @caseywest #oscon #noceoever #cloudnative #realtalk 56