What can the ARPANET teach us about Continuous Delivery?

The ARPANET was the great experiment in networking that gave us the Internet. This talk is an adaptation of Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon’s book ‘Where wizards stay up late - The Origins of the Internet’

There is much this origin story can teach us that is relevant to our practice today. This talk explores how vision, purpose, measurement, testing in production, building in health checks, refactoring for resilience and embracing exaptation worked then and work today.

This talk was presented at Pipeline Conference March 2018

Transcript

1. What can the ARPANET teach us about Continuous Delivery? Pipeline 2018 Chris Young @worldofchris
2. VP Engineering @linius_tech
3. Katie Hafner @katiehafner Matthew Lyon Photo: https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases /2002/02/17_mlyon.html Photo: https://twitter.com/katiehafner
4. Have Vision @worldofchris
5. ARPA 1961 Jack P. Rubina @worldofchris Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jack_P._Ruina.jpeg
6. http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/4020/4020_Military_Computer_General_Info_Oct59.pdf
7. ARPA Q32 @worldofchris
8. Cambridge Mass ARPA J.C.R. Licklider Q32 @worldofchris Photo: https://hcipioneers.wordpress.com/portfolio/jcr-licklider/
9. Have Purpose @worldofchris
10. ARPA Bob Taylor Photo: https://www.wired.com/2017/04/youve-never-heard-tech-legend-bob-taylor-invented-almost-everything/ 1965 @worldofchris
11. MIT ARPA Bob Taylor 1965 Q32 UC Berkeley @worldofchris
12. MIT ARPA Bob Taylor 1965 Q32 UC Berkeley @worldofchris
13. MIT ARPA Bob Taylor 1965 Q32 UC Berkeley @worldofchris
14. MIT ARPA Bob Taylor 1965 Q32 UC Berkeley @worldofchris
16. @worldofchris
17. Ann Arbor Michigan 1967 @worldofchris
18. IBM System/360 Sigma-7 PDP-10 SDS-940
19. “You’ve got the network inside out” Wes Clark, 1967 Photo: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/business/wesley-a-clark-made-co mputing-personal-dies-at-88.html
21. Bolt Beranek & Newman Cambridge Mass @worldofchris
22. Bolt Beranek & Newman Cambridge Mass UCLA UCSB SRI UTAH @worldofchris
23. Measure @worldofchris
24. UCLA @worldofchris
25. September 1969 Sigma-7 UCLA @worldofchris
26. September 1969 IMP No. 1 Sigma-7 UCLA @worldofchris
27. Test in Production @worldofchris
28. October 1969 Data line IMP No. 2 IMP No. 1 SDS-940 Sigma-7 SRI UCLA @worldofchris
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30. >L
31. >LO
32. >LO!
33. November 1969 Data line IMP No. 2 IMP No. 1 SDS-940 Sigma-7 SRI UCLA UCSB IBM System/360 @worldofchris
34. December 1969 Data line IMP No. 2 IMP No. 1 SDS-940 Sigma-7 SRI UCLA UTAH UCSB IBM System/360 PDP 10 @worldofchris
35. Build in health checks you can respond to @worldofchris
36. December 1969 SRI UCLA UTAH UCSB @worldofchris
37. December 1969 SRI UCLA UTAH UCSB SDC RAND @worldofchris
38. Spring 1970 SRI UCLA UTAH UCSB BBN @worldofchris
39. SRI UCLA UTAH UCSB BBN @worldofchris http://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-completion-report.pdf
40. June 1970 SRI UCLA UTAH UCSB BBN MIT HARVARD @worldofchris
41. September 1971 SRI UCLA UTAH UCSB BBN MIT HARVARD BBN LINCOLN BURROUGHS MITRE AMES STANFORD SDC RAND CASE CARNEGIE ILLIONIS @worldofchris
42. Refactor for Resilience @worldofchris
43. https://www.planoly.com/blog/portfolio/planoly-power-chats-x-guy-kawasaki/ @GuyKawasaki https://guykawasaki.com/the_art_of_inno/ @worldofchris
44. Embrace exaptation @worldofchris
45. “You know, everyone really uses this thing for electronic mail.” Bob Kahn, 1972 Photo: http://inthistory4u.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/1973.html
46. • Have Vision • Have Purpose • Measure • Test in production • Build in health checks you can respond to • Refactor for Resilience • Embrace exaptation What can the ARPANET teach us about Continuous Delivery? @worldofchris
47. Models @worldofchris
48. IMP
49. Sigma 7
50. Sigma 7 Tape Drive
51. IBM System/360
52. IBM System/360 Tape Drive
53. DEC PDP-10
54. DEC PDP-10
55. DEC PDP-10
56. SDS 940
57. SDS 940 Tape Drive
58. TIP - Terminal IMP