This document discusses the promise of cloud native platforms. It notes that a cloud native platform provides minimum viable services like routing, backing services, infrastructure orchestration, health monitoring, artifact repositories, and log aggregation. It also emphasizes that cloud native platforms embrace reasonable constraints, structured contracts, and making the right thing the easy thing through automation and simple patterns. Overall, the document presents cloud native platforms as enabling shorter time from idea to value by facilitating automated deployment and operation of code in any environment or capacity.

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The Promise of a
Cloud Native Platform
Bridget Kromhout

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lives:
Minneapolis,
Minnesota
works:
Pivotal
podcasts:
Arrested
DevOps
organizes:
devopsdays
Bridget Kromhout

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Traded oncall… …for more travel (Similar effect on sleep)

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quoted in “10+ Deploys Per Day:
Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr” at Velocity 2009
John Allspaw & Paul Hammond
“In the last week there were
67 deploys
of 496 changes
by 18 people”
Flickr Dev Blog, December 17th 2008
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Failure: what does recovery look like?
Environments: how long to spin up a
new one or copy an existing one?
Deploys: how often? how long do they
take? How often do they go wrong?
Why don’t we all move that fast today?

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Not the goal:
“automate all the things”

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The goal: shorter time from
idea to value
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How do we
get to
the goal?

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The Wall of Confusion
yolo nope

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navigating
choices

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devops is
practiced,
not
purchased.
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Land of 10,000 devops clichés

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Docker in Production:
Reality, Not Hype

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Deconstructing a
Python/Django
monolith into
Dockerized
Go microservices
(as was the style
at the time)
How to win at buzzword bingo:

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Two-Pizza
teams

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“Any organization that designs a system…
will produce a design
whose structure is a copy of
the organization's
communication
structure.”
Mel Conway

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CA
CP AP
AvailabilityConsistency
Partition
Tolerance
“a partition is a
time bound
on communication.”
Eric Brewer

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so what’s a
cloud
native
platform?

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opinions optional
if you can deploy and operate
code in any capacity, you
have a platform

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reasonable
constraints

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Minimum Viable Platform
1. Routing and load balancing
2. Backing services broker
3. Infrastructure orchestration
4. Health management, monitoring, and recovery
5. Immutable artifact repository
6. Log aggregation
Casey West - The cloud-native future

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structured contracts
determine the promises
a platform can keep

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Large-scale cluster management
at Google with Borg - Verma et al. 2015
“Almost every task run
under Borg contains a
built-in HTTP server
that publishes
information about the
health of the task and
thousands of performance
metrics”

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“Nothing’s the same anymore.”
Babylon 5
Jeffrey Sinclair
Image credit: Astroengine

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Legacy:
your
customers
& money
live
here

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Visvesvaraya Museum, Bengaluru
IBM 1401 (in use until 1989)

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Process:
scar tissue
from past
failure

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“It’s not necessary
to change.
Survival is
not mandatory.”
—W. Edwards
Deming

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The Wall of Confusion (here there be White Walkers)

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the right thing
should be
the easy thing

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Inaction is still a choice

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12-factor apps
need
12-factor ops

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12-factor
kitten

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simple patterns
automated by
tooling:
the cloud native
advantage

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@bridgetkromhout
Cloud Native Application Framework
CPI
BOSH release
12 Factor
Cloud Native Contracts
Cloud Native Runtime Platform

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Thank you!