OSS Think Tank - NetflixOSS - OSS as a Competitive Differentiator
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Open Source Think Tank - NetflixOSS as a Competitive Differentiator. Discussion of OSS strategy and benefits. Overview of NetflixOSS components.
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OSS Think Tank - NetflixOSS - OSS as a Competitive Differentiator
- 1. Open Source as a Compe//ve Differen/ator Ruslan Meshenberg 25 March 2014
- 2. NeAlix
- 3. Who am I? • Director, PlaAorm Engineering • Leading NeAlixOSS Program • @rusmeshenberg
- 4. Compe//ve Differen/ator • When a business makes their product, or service, different and unique
- 5. Open Source • Open Source SoNware is one that can be freely used, changed, and shared by anyone
- 6. Wait a minute… • How does giving away soNware for free create compe//ve advantage / differen/a/on?
- 7. Openness vs. Strategy Simon Wardley -‐ Researcher at the Leading Edge Forum
- 8. Beware of Geeks Bearing GiNs: Strategies for an Increasingly Open Economy Simon Wardley -‐ Researcher at the Leading Edge Forum
- 9. ABOUT HOW NETFLIX OSS STARTED… First, a story
- 10. Before NeAlixOSS, our Open Culture
- 13. Establish our solu/ons as Best Prac/ces / Standards Hire, Retain and Engage Top Engineers Build up NeAlix Technology Brand Benefit from a shared ecosystem Goals
- 15. NeAlix PlaAorm Evolu/on Bleeding Edge Innova/on Common Pa]ern Shared Pa]ern 2009-‐2010 2011-‐2012 2013-‐2014 NeAlix ended up several years ahead of the industry, but it’s not a sustainable posi/on
- 16. Certainty vs. Ubiquity Simon Wardley – Researcher at Leading Edge Forum Bleeding Edge Innova/on Common Pa]ern Shared Pa]ern
- 17. Making it easy to follow Exploring the wild west each Fme vs. laying down a shared route
- 19. NeAlixOSS in the Press
- 20. Over 1000 Meetup members
- 21. SHARED ECOSYSTEM
- 23. • Announced March 2013 • $100,000 in 10 categories
- 24. Judges Aino Corry Program Chair for Qcon/GOTO Mar/n Fowler Chief Scien/st Thoughtworks Simon Wardley Strategist Yury Izrailevsky VP Cloud NeAlix Werner Vogels CTO Amazon Joe Weinman SVP Telx, Author “Cloudonomics”
- 25. To a somewhat mixed reac/on…
- 26. But overall, a great success!
- 29. What you really want
- 30. Github is your resume
- 31. BONUS!
- 32. Side-‐effects – code quality
- 33. WHAT IS THIS PLATFORM?
- 34. Assump/ons • Slowly Changing • Large Scale • Rapid Change • Large Scale • Slowly Changing • Small Scale • Rapid Change • Small Scale Speed Scale Everything Works Everything Is Broken Hardware Will Fail SoNware Will Fail Enterprise IT Telcos Startups Web Scale
- 35. NeAlix Global PlaAorm Cassandra Replicas Zone A Cassandra Replicas Zone B Cassandra Replicas Zone C Regional Load Balancers Cassandra Replicas Zone A Cassandra Replicas Zone B Cassandra Replicas Zone C Regional Load Balancers
- 37. Manage the Cloud
- 41. Effec/ve and happy developers
- 42. BIG Data!
- 43. In use by many companies
- 45. @NeAlixOSS
- 46. More Use Cases More Features • From pieces to PlaAorm • Be]er training / ramp up • Be]er portability • Contribu/ons from end users • Contribu/ons from vendors What’s Coming Next?
- 47. Whole is greater than sum of the parts
- 48. Takeaways Func9onality and scale now, portability later Moving from parts to a plaAorm Rapid Evolu9on – Low MTBIMSH (Mean Time Between Idea and Making Stuff Happen) hKp://neAlix.github.com @NeAlixOSS @rusmeshenberg