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The O’Reilly Radar

Tim O’Reilly

June 23, 2010
Velocity, Santa Clara, CA

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

You know me as a book publisher


What We Really Do At O'Reilly

Change the world by spreading the
knowledge of innovators


O’Reilly Radar Methodology
 “The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed
yet.” - William Gibson
 We “watch the alpha geeks” and think about the
futures they are living in
 We then look for trend data that tells us that a
particular future is becoming mainstream


Sources of my fascination with SysAdmin & Ops
 My first book: Masscomp System Administrator’s
Guide, 1983
 Programming Perl, first edition, 1991
 System administration O’Reilly’s “core”

 Started pushing our editorial teams early on to
look at big sites and operations


I’m here today to talk about where this is going
 Cloud computing
 Data driven applications
 Mobile
 Real time
 Beyond the web


Cloud Computing

“You keep using that word. I do not think it
means what you think it means.”


Data is the “Intel Inside”


An application that
depends on cooperating
cloud data services:

- Location
- Search
- Speech recognition
- Live Traffic
- Imagery


The Yelp Monocle
 Find cafes nearby.


The Internet Operating System is
A Data Operating System


The Internet Operating System is a Data Operating System
 It helps applications find out about
– People
– Places
– Things
– Prices
– Documents
– Images
– Sounds
– Relationships
– ...

 and helps people interact with them through services
– Search
– Payment
– Matching and Recognition
– ...


In Real Time


 Hackers play
 Entrepreneurs build products for consumer early
adopters
 Enterprises follow

 We saw this with the PC, with the World Wide Web,
with open source software, with social networking


AMEE - the world’s energy meter


We’re moving to a world in which every device
generates useful data, in which every action
creates “information shadows” on the net.


The cloud future includes...
 Devices acting as sensors for intelligent data
collection
 Devices whose UI is on the web rather than the
device
 Feeding data into multiple online services that will
turn into a full-on sensor web
 Setting the stage for robotics, augmented reality,
and the next generation of personal electronics
 Producing more data than we’ve ever had to deal
with before
 Moving from hackers to innovators to mainstream
business impact


People are the “Intel Inside”


“Harnessing Collective Intelligence”


The Open Source
Paradigm Shift

May 6, 2003

Tim O'Reilly
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
www.oreilly.com


Software as Service
Von Kempelen's Mechanical Turk


“You are all inside the Amazon application”


Source: http://micro-ram.com/images/100_0453.JPG


Source: http://blog.frankovic.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/systemadmin.jpg


“The Web is changing the
way we live and touches
every person alive. As more
and more people depend on
the Web, they depend on us.
Web Operations is work that
matters.”

--Jesse Robbins


“Changing the world
by sharing the knowledge of innovators.”


“Operations is where big decisions are made &
policies executed that affect people & societies.
There is almost nothing to guide us.”

--Jesse Robbins


“Figuring out this stuff is hard. We'll make
mistakes. That's okay. ”

--Jesse Robbins


“[The wall] was beautiful, but not because of any
masterful intellectual planning or any scientiﬁc
supervision of the job, or any added
expenditures to “stylize” it. It was beautiful
because the people who worked on it had a way
of looking at things that made them do it right
unselfconsciously. They didnʼt separate
themselves from the work in such a way as to do
it wrong. [...] In each case thereʼs a beautiful way
of doing it and an ugly way of doing it, and in
arriving at the high-quality, beautiful way of doing
it, both an ability to see what “looks good” and
an ability to understand the underlying methods
to arrive at that “good” are needed.”

--Robert Pirsig,
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“Do the right thing. You will gratify some people,
and astonish the rest.”

--Mark Twain


Switching tracks (a bit)...


For more information
 The Open Source Paradigm Shift (2003)
http://bit.ly/cKLSUP
 What is Web 2.0? (2005)
http://oreil.ly/a0zT65
 Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On (2009)
http://bit.ly/kEKgs
 Government as a Platform (2010)
http://opengovernment.labs.oreilly.com/
 Ongoing commentary
http://radar.oreilly.com
http://twitter.com/timoreilly
http://buzz.google.com/timoreilly


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