The document discusses the increasing fragmentation of technology and adoption of cloud computing. It notes how open source projects now use forks as a measure of popularity rather than download numbers. It also discusses how companies like Microsoft are embracing and extending other technologies like Java to build their own cloud offerings.

1. Cloud First: On Forking, Forging and Foraging
10.20.2005
Digital London March 2012

2. Fragmentation of Everything
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3. Explosion of Forms
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4. Cloud is eating the World
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5. Craft Trumps Outsourcing
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6. Forage
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7. Then Forge
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8. On Quality
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9. Making Differences
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10. Resolving Differences
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11. In Praise of Forking
Open Source used to count download numbers as a
measure of developer success.
Today we increasingly use forks as the metric of traction.
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12. No Permission Required
Source @cbtacey, AppFog
data from National Venture Capital Association and UNH Center for Venture Research
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13. The Value of Data
“The lumber industry sells what used to be
waste — sawdust, chips, and shredded wood
— for a pretty profit. Today you’ll find these
by-products in synthetic fireplace logs,
concrete, mulch, particle board, fuel, livestock
and pet bedding, winter road traction, weed
killing and more.”
Jason Fried, 37signals
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14. GitHub Change
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15. Ohloh Monthly Contributors
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16. Language Tiers
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17. Embrace and extend: the sincerest form of flattery
“We saw more and more people were writing cloud applications in Java.”
Amitabh Srivastava, Microsoft SVP Server and Cloud Division, announcing “first class
support” for Java in Azure
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18. Build on CI
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19. The End of No Software
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20. A marriage of convenience: divide and rule
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21. A little too early
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22. Cloud Factoring
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23. Credits
Photos:
SF in Cloud – SF Chronicle
Craftsman – A. Davey on Flickr
Forge – Stewart Black on Flickr
Riveting – Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Forage – honestcooking.com
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