Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry CEO, Sam Ramji, 20 Mar 2015

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From YouTube: "The Makings of a Modern Application Architecture" - Sam Ramji Keynote

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It wasn’t too long ago that artisans, bathed in the glow of molten metal, forged parts that would go on to make up bigger, more powerful machines. Today, we call those artisans developers. Instead of metal, they use bits and bytes in the cloud to forge a modern application architecture.

It’s an architecture that supports public, private and hybrid application deployment. One that enables users and developers to move their applications wherever they need to go. And it’s built on a growing, vibrant ecosystem.

In this talk, I’ll give you a look at the technologies driving this new level of efficiency for application developers (tech like containers, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry and social coding tools like GitHub). And I’ll explain why many prominent members of the Fortune 500 are building their futures on this modern application architecture.

About Sam Ramji (Cloud Foundry Foundation):
Sam Ramji is CEO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. He has over 20 years of industry experience in enterprise software, product development, and open source strategy.

He previously served as Vice President of Strategy of Apigee, one of the 5 fastest-growing software companies in the Deloitte Fast 500, and is a member of their Board of Advisors. He joined Apigee from Microsoft, where he was responsible for driving Microsoft’s worldwide open source strategy. He drove many of Microsoft’s contributions to open source and its shift to embrace open source technologies like PHP. He was a leader in BEA’s move into EAI/ESB as a founding member of the AquaLogic product team.

Mr. Ramji has built large-scale enterprise and Web-scale applications, leading the Ofoto engineering team through its acquisition by Kodak. His other experience includes leading engineering teams to build large-scale applications on open source software, as well as hands-on development of client, client-server and distributed applications on Unix, Windows and Macintosh at prior companies. He is a Member of the Institute for Generative Leadership. Sam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California at San Diego.

His work has been covered in Wired and many other industry publications.

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Good morning, so it's true I started programming when I was nine. I got a degree in cognitive science in 94 and in 2000. I was the first person to hold the title web services principal architect at B EA systems, as we were, trying to figure out how HTTP could build an API driven enterprise. I spent a half decade at Microsoft. After that doing wait for it leading the open source and Linux team.

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It was harder than it than it is now. Some of you may have seen that they've come out of the closet. Such an adult is now seen on stage pointing it slide, saying: Microsoft loves, Linux, so a step at a time spent the last half decade as chief strategy officer of appaji, observing what many of you have been observing, which is that every enterprise is becoming a software company and somehow we need to help each of them get towards a world of applications and services.

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So what we really should have called this talk is not the making of a modern architecture. Having observed everything that we've seen the conversations at this conference, we should have called it the making of a cloud native application platform. That's where we're all trying to get well know that we're at the dawn of a new era we walk around with supercomputers in our pockets. Sometimes they even work well enough to make some telephone calls pretty soon we're going to be driving supercomputers down the highway.

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Many of us already are, as chips become, cheaper sensors become cheaper screens, become cheaper, we're seeing these everywhere, so people are moving, human behavior is changing and what we are required to produce is a shift in business that matches the change in human behavior. If an enterprise cannot give you the information and the commerce opportunity in your situation. In your context, wherever you happen to be they're, going to have serious trouble just down the street at MIT Sloan School of Business for about 20 years, they said the most important thing you can produce.

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The gold standard of business was sustainable, competitive advantage. They've now said in the last few years, everything is changing too fast. You can no longer seek sustainable, competitive advantage, it won't last long. So what can we do? Instead? Where do we need to take our companies? We need to move to continuous in innovation, so it sounded a lot like what we've been talking about at this conference for the last couple of days.

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So it sounds like agile right, so raise your hand if you're currently doing agile development in an enterprise awesome, please keep your hands raised if, on top of doing agile development, you're also able to do continuous deployment. Ok, so interesting, thank you. Many people put their hands down on the second question, because what you have is an agile world, where you're doing designed to demo and you're absolutely delighting the teams that you're working with the business people think it's fantastic.

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And then you batch up your delivery to IT on a six or eight week edge you'll to get it into an actual production. Push you, my friends, are in the middle of what is called the water scrum fall.

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So how do we get out of the water? Scrum fall. That's what I'm going to spend the rest of this time talking about. We know what we need to do is to pare contain ativ applications with the continuous delivery of business value. So if we can put those things together, then we actually have the very practical tools to do what MIT is telling us to do, which is take us to a world of continuous innovation.

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Now, because every company is becoming a software company, there's tremendous economic pressure which is driving the creation of open projects and open platforms. Open source is the answer to global economic pressure, but is no longer just IT. That needs to do IT right, but financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, then, all of that pressure to collaborate means we need to reduce the cost of our basic operating ingredients.

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We're building these into open data centers into stacks right, open compute, so the hardware can be open. Opn MV for network function, virtualization opendaylight for Sdn OpenStack is n Linux Cloud Foundry, docker node. These are examples of each element of the stack, but it's crucial to start to see the Harmonia up and down the stack. So we can get out of the old way of doing IT and into the new way where we can get to continuous innovation.

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So we do all this so that we can enable micro services to run correctly to be addressable for maybe where to scale to be able operate in multiple data. Centers and microservices are great per Martin Fowler. They lead the specific requirements and in his article on this he actually said you must be this tall to ride the ride. You need rapid provisioning. You need to be able to have net new IT resources, storage, network compute come up in a matter of minutes or less not days, not weeks. You need basic monitoring.

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You need to have feeds of information to find out. What's the current state of health of the entire system, you need rapid application deployment, so you must be in continuous deployment right, not just continuous integration. You don't want to be in the water, scrum fall, and all of this is enabled by the most important capacity. It's the people. Capacity no tool can give you this. This is DevOps culture.

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When there's this much pressure, you start to see emergent behaviors in a market. Those pressures produce the desire to make certain projects certain technologies and make them come alive so for containers, docker, amazingly huge rocket hot on their on their on their ankles automation, tools like puppet, like ansible, like chef and cluster management, for taking these two data center scale clusters, Apache, mesos and kubernetes. Each of these technologies does an outstanding job at what it does think about.

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How much effort you put into understanding the technologies at your hand and then think about your own IT organizations and ask how much complexity can they handle in order to give you an environment that allows you to do continuous, continuous deployment and take you towards continuous innovation. What they need is a cloud native application platform, something that works with everything else, but is consistent, gives you. The nines gives you a very clear way to operate it so that you can create this harmony.

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So you can create this environment in which all the cloud native applications can run and you can actually run end-to-end. Agile, Cloud Foundry is a cloud native application platform.

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It points to many things, but at its heart, in fact, a cloud foundry is a place of practice for continuous innovation, so a cloud foundry ism now and think about foundries, it's a place where you produced material products that were meaningful. You could share time and experience and materials with other artisans a place to practice. This is very pragmatic. The laying of bricks produces the wall.

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You have to actually get into the habit of doing things correctly and the cathedral that we're building it's not just brick, laying it's not just a wall, but we're trying to create something. Amazing is continuous innovation. So what we? What we give you is the technology to create the place, and then we assemble the wisdom of the community in order to create the practices we dive in a little bit into what is inside the Cloud Foundry open-source project.

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The most important piece is at the top its the users they're coming at you from every direction, browsers on different form factors, mobile range of devices everywhere that you can have a screen, an interface, an internet connection, you're going to want to access apps.

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Also critical is the bottom infrastructure we're in a world where we're making a lot of different infrastructure choices. Yes, there's a lot of Amazon Web Services, but we're starting to see Microsoft Azure we're starting to see Google Play in that game. Openstack, VMware, vCloud, digitalocean, there's, actually an amazing amount of innovation happening at that layer of the stack, so a piece in the middle that you're going to offer to your IT organization to make you happy so that you can run your projects.

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The way that you want has to take care of both ends of those concerns it has to be open above and below has to be clean. We take a bit as breaking into three key parts: the elastic runtime, which is what allows you to deploy your applications. Intuit version them update them, whatever you need to do.

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The second tier services is where you have to have some set of capabilities: out-of-the-box, if you think about a fire hose based application, you're running it, stateless lis, you're persisting nothing but you'd still need some some services to rely on in this new world, reiax es MySQL. You need to be able to persist information. You can be able to talk to message queues, provider, specific services, Cloud Foundry as part of IBM bluemix bluemix also has particular IBM services like watson, so those are provider specific services that can be serviced surfaced through cloud foundry.

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You have the same programming environment, but you get the advantage of new particular vendors ideas without breaking compatibility and then finally, you have user provide service instances, so every enterprises made up of tons of IT assets you'd be able to project those right, sometimes monoliths and really well-structured. Existing distributed services need to project those into the programming fabric. So it's easy to compose your micro services that include very large enterprise services and then, finally, at the operations tier right. This is where we have to win the hearts and minds of IT administrators logging scaling.

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As we all know, auto scaling is not just scaling up. It's scaling down right when the service is when the resources are no longer needed. Let them go platform deployment. What's the ordinality, you know you need n units of this server m units of that server. Make sure that that can be handled health monitoring make sure your continued guide. This is continuously guide the system into the desired State, two key things that we're doing or refactoring the elastic runtime.

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This is a project called Diego to enable it to not just take build packs, but also docker and rocket containers, and today I'm, very happy to announce we've just launched latus, you can go to lattice dot CF and you can see a cloud foundry that will fit on a developer laptop. This allow you to get the sense of what cloud foundry does without having to have an entire data center enclosing. We've talked about a lot of things. This is the most important thing for me. This is why I come to work.

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This is why I get up. In the morning. We see a world of computing that is ubiquitous and flexible. If there are cloud foundries everywhere, these are open-source installations. You can run yourself, then you get the next promise, which is Portability and interoperability, because we don't know enough about the future, because we don't know where we're going to run our workloads. We need something. That's easier higher level of abstraction, so you can take your business, critical, apps and move them from provider to provider and finally, vibrant and growing.

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If we do this right, then we can create a real platform that you can deploy. Net new applications to that is v's can give you an iOS like experience. What, if you could click a tile and suddenly an enterprise application is installed across your data center. That's where we're trying to take the world and invite you to join us join me. We're a Linux, Foundation collaborative project, we're open-source project. We believe it we're passionate about it, invite you to contact me directly at s Ramji or check us out at Cloud, Foundry org.

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So thank you very much.

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