Steven Pousty presented on getting developers to use cloud platforms. Some problems developers face are not having root access, different deployment models than hosting servers, needing to build horizontally scalable apps, and expecting a virtual private server. Issues include a lack of documentation, not teaching horizontal scalability, and a different local vs cloud experience. Solutions proposed are using Docker to provide a familiar environment, building more modular applications, helping database and app servers move to the cloud, and balancing sysadmin and developer needs. The presentation ended with an open discussion.

1. Raising the tide: getting
developers into the cloud
http://talks.thesteve0.com/londoncloud
conf
http://bit.ly/1fbwhKc
Presented by:
Steven Pousty
@TheSteve0 on Twitter, IRC, Instagram,
Ingress, SmugMug, and Github

2. Agenda
1. Cover what I am seeing with devs and the cloud (mostly PaaS)
2. Open discussion about moving us all forward

3. What did developers grow up
with

4. Hosted server

5. How to handle load

6. OK so what problems are they
facing
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They can't be ROOT
Their deployment model changes
App has to be built for horizontal scaling
They expect it to be a VPS

7. What are we doing wrong
1. NOT ENOUGH DOCUMENTATION
2. Not teaching developers to create horizontally scalable
applications
3. Not teaching developers to think in composable server pieces
rather than all minutiae
4. Giving them a different local versus "cloud" experience.

8. My thoughts about where we
go
1. Docker adds a lot to help us get closer to what they expect
2. Build things as more composable units
3. Help our app server and DB brethern to move their pieces to the
cloud
4. Balance sysadmins needs with developer needs

9. Freewheeling discussion