Keynote presentation from NGINX Summit - Raleigh - July 2015.

1. Brian Gracely
@bgracely

2. About Me
Brian Gracely
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7. S&P 500 CHURN – LAST DECADE
No Business Model
Is Assured
(2002-2012)

8. S&P 500 CHURN – LAST DECADE
One Company’s
Profit
Is Another
Company’s
Business Model
(2012-Present)

9. EVERY INDUSTRY IS IMPACTED

10. JUST ADD A “BUY” BUTTON

11. NEW APPLICATION ARCHITECTURES
User
Requests
Load-Balancer
Tier
App-API
Load-Balancer
Tier
Application
Microservices
Data Tier
“DataStores”
(Clustered
NoSQL+SQL)
SPREAD ACROSS MULTIPLE DCs or CLOUDS
Object
Tier
AWS S3 Compliant
Snapshots
MetaData
Configs
Logs

12. SOMETIMES BIGGER THINGS
CHANGE

13. THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS CHANGING
“SOFTWARE DEFINED
STORAGE”
“SOFTWARE DEFINED
NETWORKING” CLOUD

14. APPLICATIONS / TOOLS ARE
CHANGING
Development Tools Runtime Stack Management and Orchestration
Code Repository
Image Registry
Traditional ADLM Tools
App Development Platform
Continuous Integration / Continuous Development
IaaS for Containers
Networking
PaaS
vSphere / OpenStack / Bare Metal
Storage/Data Services
Operating Systems
Load Balancer
Application Components
“Application”
Micro/Services
(running in containers and/or VMs)
Infrastructure Management
Deployment / Operational Management
Service Discovery and Registry
App / Services Management & Orchestration
Resource Scheduling and Orchestration
Monitoring and Performance Mgmt
Cluster Management
Dev. Environment

15. BI-MODAL or TRI-MODAL?
TRI-MODAL (SIMON WARDLEY)BI-MODAL (GARTNER)
BUSINESS
IT MANAGEMENT
LEGACY
APPLICATIONS
NEW
APPS

16. GETTING THERE
BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITY
CHALLENGE 1
CHALLENGE 2
INTEGRATION PLATFORM
DELIVERY PLATFORM

17. KEY ELEMENTS
BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITY
BUSINESS
CENTRIC
SMALL
PIECES
CONTINUOUS
TEST/DEPLOY
COLLABORATE
COMMUNICATE
MEASUREMENT + FEEDBACK

18. MOVING FORWARD
• Software as a Core (Business) Competency
• Focus on Throughput and Quality
• Mobile and Data will Drive the Apps
• Operations is the Differentiator
• DevOps is the Culture of High-Performance IT

19. Thank You!
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Brian Gracely
bgracely
bgracely
bgracely

20. SOCIAL HOUR!!