The document discusses Docker's innovation culture, which is based on traits like building on open source infrastructure, having an accessible design, encouraging risk-taking and experimentation, contributing to open source communities, developing reusable APIs, and hiring a diverse team. It summarizes that Docker's culture of not reinventing wheels, accessibility fueling innovation, failing often and quickly to learn, competing with giants through open source, developing reusable components through APIs, and having a diverse team were keys to its success and leadership in the container space.

1. Docker Innovation Culture
October 2017
Patrick Chanezon
@chanezon, Docker, Inc

2. French
Polyglot
Platforms
Software Plumber
San Francisco
Developer Relations
@chanezon

3. Docker

4. From dotCloud to Docker in a few steps…
• dotCloud:
Platform as a
Service
• 2010-2012
• Docker: the
OpenSource
Container
platform
• 2013-2014
• Docker:
Monetization and
Business growth
• 2015-present

5. Image Registry
CI/CD
Security scan
& sign
Traditional
Third Party
Microservices
docker store
DEVELOPERS IT OPERATIONS
Control Plane
Docker EE Platform to Modernize Traditional Apps
And Beyond

6. docker.com/mta

7. Some of our Customers

8. Tao of Docker

9. 之道 Tao, The Way

10. 之道 Tao

11. 无为 Wu-wei, Effortless action

12. 无为 Wu-wei, Effortless action

13. 自然 Ziran, Naturalness

14. 自然 Ziran, Naturalness
container
based
No state
No couplingbounded context

15. 无为 Modernize traditional applications without
coding
The Docker 之道
自然 Create microservice applications with the
container platform that started the container
revolution

16. The Docker 之道
Pour vos applicationsdes Enterprises

17. Trends

18. Trend: Agile
MTBIAMSH (Mean Time Between Idea And Making Stuff Happen)
Low MTBIAMSH
Adrian Cockcroft (Netflix, AWS)

19. Trend: Devops
• Cultural movement
• Inspired by agile methods
• People, Processes & Tools
• Continuous delivery
• Infrastructure as code
• Cross silo collaboration
• Small iterations
• Feedback loop, measurement
Image from Patrick Debois
http://www.slideshare.net/jedi4ever/devops-the-war-is-over-if-you-want-it
http://www.slideshare.net/jedi4ever/devopsdays-downundervfinal

20. 28
http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/11/19/we-finally-cracked-the-10k-problem-this-time-for-managing-se.html
Server/Sysadmin
1999: 5(Windows) - 50 (Linux)
2015: 10k-20k
x2000

21. 28
https://blog.docker.com/2014/12/dockercon-europe-keynote-continuous-delivery-in-the-enterprise-by-henk-kolk-ing/
Henk Kolk, ING, DockerCon EU 2014
People, Processes, Products
deployment time: 9 months -> 15 min
1500 deployments/week

22. Innovation Culture

23. “The Future is already here –
it’s just not very evenly
distributed”
William Gibson, Neuromancer

24. Innovation Culture Traits
• Infrastructure culture
• Design
• Risk
• Open Source culture
• API culture
• Hire the right people

25. Infrastructure
Culture
• Do not reinvent the wheel
• Build on the shoulders of giants
• Containers exist in Linux since 2008

26. Design
• Simple is powerful
• Accessibility enables Innovation
• Docker made containers accessible to
a wide audience
• Developers started to build on top of
Docker

27. Risk
• Fail often, fail quickly, and learn
• Encourage risk taking and
experimentation
• Without risk, there is no innovation
• Docker was initially small component of
dotCloud

28. Open Source Culture
• Leveling the playing field
• Compete with Giants
• “no matter who you are, most of the smartest
people work for someone else.”
Bill Joy
• Leverage a large ecosystem contributions in
Engineering and Marketing
• You’re not alone anymore
• Docker became a standard by being widely
available
• dotCloud vs Docker - closed vs open

29. API Culture
• Build reusable components
• “Teams must communicate through service interfaces. No
other form of communication will be allowed.”
– Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO)

30. Hire the Right People
• High bar for recruiting
• Free food, best perks in the industry
• A successful team is diverse: different
background and nationality

31. Lessons Learned - Summary
• Infrastructure culture: do not reinvent the wheel
• Design: accessibility fuels innovation
• Risk: fail often, quickly, and learn
• Open Source culture: be visible and compete with giants
• API culture: build reusable components
• Hire the right people: a successful team is a diverse team

32. References
• Google Innovation Culture, chanezon, 2009,
https://www.slideshare.net/chanezon/google-innovation-culture
• “Reverse Engineering Google’s Innovation Machine”, HBR april 2008, Bala Iyer
and Thomas Davenport
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?m
l_action=get-article&articleID=R0804C
• Bezos memo through Steve Yegge’s post
https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
• Joy’s law of management
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s_law_(management)
• Docker Innovation Culture, Sam Alba, 2017