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From YouTube: The Makers of Marvels: How Developers Are Rebuilding the Enterprise, One Brick at a Time

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The Makers of Marvels: How Developers Are Rebuilding the Enterprise, One Brick at a Time [B] - Abby Kearns, Cloud Foundry Foundation

History teaches us that astonishing feats occur not when a singular leader envisions them, but when a mass of skilled workers collaborates to transform that vision into something material. The Pyramids of Giza, for example, were not built overnight by a Pharaoh, but constructed by tens of thousands of workers over a period of years. Today’s “pyramid” is quite a bit smaller, but a wonder of the world in its own right: The iPhone has transformed the world as we know it -- but most of its power comes from the app store, which offers thousands of apps created from the imaginations of thousands of developers. These developers are the makers of marvels in our time. They instantiate the very concept of digital transformation -- that notion of infrastructure disruption and re-assembly on the mind of every CIO. Business development is driven by software development, and software development is shaped by developers in the open source community.

In her talk, Abby Kearns empowers developers to think of themselves as the doers and makers who hold the key to unlocking digital transformation. She will cover the importance of diversity among developers for the technology industry to evolve and to reflect its user base, and will highlight the key open source concepts and technologies powering this trans-industrial transformation.

About Abby Kearns
With nearly twenty years in the tech world, Abby Kearns is a true veteran of the industry. Her lengthy career has spanned product marketing, product management and consulting across Fortune 500 companies and startups alike. As Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby helms the ecosystem of developers, users and applications running on Cloud Foundry, and works closely with the Board to drive the Foundation’s vision and grow the open source project. Prior to Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby focused on Pivotal Cloud Foundry as part of the Product Management team at Pivotal. She spent eight years at Verizon where she led Product Management and Product Marketing teams dedicated to the early days of cloud services. In her free time, Abby enjoys indulging in food and wine, and spending time with her husband and son.
Join us for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Barcelona May 20 - 23, Shanghai June 24 - 26, and San Diego November 18 - 21! Learn more at https://kubecon.io. The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.

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My name is Abbey Kearns and I am the executive director of Cloud Foundry Foundation, and for those of you that aren't familiar, it is a sister open-source project to a cloud native computing foundation underneath the Linux Foundation and we house Cloud Foundry the open source platform as a service, so I am responsible for Cloud Foundry, the open service broker, API projects and all of the extension projects that go around. That and you're probably wondering why I'm here so today, I'm going to talk a little bit about what we're doing in Cloud Foundry some announcements.

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We had a couple of months ago, around kubernetes but I'll say what does collaboration look like for all of us collectively in the future. When we think about cloud native.

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But first I want to build up towards that, because I think it's important to talk a little about where we're going technologically wise and why it's important and more important, now than ever before, back in the 1800s, some rich Baron's had the idea to really fund elite change, supply, chain, logistics and and actually even management of that supply chain across the United States, and they had the idea for the first transcontinental railroad.

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But that idea wasn't enough to make it a reality. It was the thousands of engineers and builders and creators that over decades transformed the both the idea of what supply chain could look like, but also the movement of people across the United States or in the early 20th century. When an architect had the idea of bringing together the Marin, County and San Francisco, which to date had been really they've, been transversing, those two areas via boat and it was very unpredictable, very unstable and he had the idea of bridging those two communities together.

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But it was the builders, the creators that turned it into one of the icons that it is today and and by the way, in order to achieve that, it required a great deal of collaboration beyond just the builders and the architect. It required collaboration on a different communities and counties on funding and enablement and how to bring two communities together and.

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Then, a little bit more recent, how many of you here have a smartphone? How many up to that's right? We all have it you know today. For me it is an invaluable tool, but in 2007, when the iPhone first launched it was interesting. It was nice, it was had really changed the user experience of a phone, but it was still a phone that texted and took photos, but then something happened in 2008 in the App Store launched and that fundamentally changed the phone.

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Those thousands of apps, created by the thousands of developers, collaborated together to make that platform an invaluable technology that it is today that powers most of our lives.

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So I would like to posit that right now the developers are the hero of the story. Developers are the heroes that are guiding where we're going in technology.

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I'll give an example of this and I know that I use digital transformation, a lot and I'm, actually, frankly, looking for a new word, so anybody got a new word to replace digital transformation, I'm all ears, but I. Think about banking and I. Think about the fact that I now use my phone to do a hundred percent of my banking five years ago.

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That was not the case, but today I'm able to do that because of an application that sits on my phone and that may not seem like a lot a mobile app but think about what that means. For my bank, my bank, which is a fortune 100 enterprise company, what that mobile app means to them, because a mobile app isn't just updated once a year, it's updated over and over again, so that mobile app represents to my bank, the fact that they have a mobile application.

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They have continuous delivery somewhere because they're constantly iterating on that application and they have a quick feedback loop between me, the user, the engineering team, the developer, as well as the product team.

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And so you start to see this mobile app as a representation of what's beginning to be agile practices, and you see a mobile app as a representation of what cloud native collaboration, but a cloud native application architecture starts to look like and so for me that banking, app and the combination of the developers that have created that on a platform represent where I think cloud native technology is going and the need for that collaboration.

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So we're seeing organizations like my bank that are trying to figure out how to change the way they think about code, not just how they think about it, but how they write it, deploy it and then iterate on that code, because you can't just push it out one time and be done with it, and that then really helps them rethink how systems are managed secured because everyone needs security and then finally scaled is these applications take off and they get momentum and people get excited about them.

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So what we're starting to see is these organizations are taking these apps and taking these steps and using that as an opportunity to rethink fundamentally how their business thinks about technology but, more importantly, how it leverages that technology to change their business, a.

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Couple of months ago, we at our Cloud Foundry summit in Basel, talked a little bit about kubernetes. Actually, we talked a lot about kubernetes for those of you that are here at this event and have been following kubernetes. It is fundamentally changed the way we think about containers, container, orchestration and I'd say that we all agree that the momentum it has in the market place is funding.

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How we think about cloud native around that we were also looking at our users that are trying to figure out how to run these cloud native apps alongside more containerized workloads, large applications.

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They don't just necessarily fit neatly in that 12 factor app platform, and so we combined kubernetes with Bosch our open source tool chain and together created container runtime and container runtime alongside the application runtime, both which can be managed by Bosch or what we think of when we now think about cloud foundry and the representation that that brings is the opportunity to give developers and builders and operators an opportunity to run the right tool for the right job.

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One of the things that is really interesting about cloud foundry is that it's open source, the same with kubernetes we're at an open source conference and for me, open source, represents opportunity, opportunity to bring together diverse people from diverse backgrounds across a multitude of companies and organizations to solve really hard problems, and so we think about the power of open source for not just Cloud Foundry foundation, but also the cloud native computing foundation and the communities that straddle both of those the opportunity exists to bring people together to collaborate to solve really hard problems in a space.

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That's changing pretty quickly.

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Diversity is a part in the proverb, but a little bit of a soapbox I carry around with me as one of as a woman in tech and and I. Think for me, it's more important than just saying diversity. It's saying inclusivity and making everyone feel welcome, because one of the things that I'm most passionate about is that beyond bringing more people to the table, I think that's the only way we solve a really interesting heart.

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Problems is getting more people to the table with different perspectives, and so my theme today is I, really thought about what am I going to talk about at cloud native computing foundation and cloud native Khan is really what is the power when you bring together such a broad group of talented people to solve really hard problems, and how do we get more of them in and get more voices to the table because I think that's where the power of this collaboration really breaks free, but it also I think that's where we solve the really interesting problems for end-users that are trying to develop applications but, more importantly, are changing their business.

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So we often talk about collaboration alongside cloud native, an open source within Cloud Foundry, because for me it's important to give developers the best experience, but allow that technology to continue to evolve and take advantage of really new and interesting technologies that are coming into the market like kubernetes, but something you might not know is we collaborate across a lot of different open source technologies. Today,.

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Container runtime takes advantage of kubernetes, but one of the things we launched in 2016 was the open service broker API, and that is where we took the cloud foundry service broker API and extended that beyond Cloud Foundry kubernetes was the first to take advantage of that followed by open shift and we're seeing more and more companies take advantage of this simple and elegant way of binding a service to an application, but, more importantly, we've taken advantage of quite eagerly the OCI initiative and bringing that Runcie capabilities inside the platform.

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But then we've also been heavily involved in CNI, which runs in cloud foundry. Csi is we're really figuring out ways to integrate and attach storage solutions to the container, but then also envoy and open tracing? So each of these technologies are areas we are their collaborator and you're leveraging today. But it also for me represents what the power of this collaboration is. I think C and C F highlights the power of bringing together a multitude of technologies that are making cloud native possible because it isn't just about creating an app it's about.

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Managing that upscaling that app managing the services around that up. Being able to address your concerns in your organization's and making that possible for you to do at scale.

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So one of the things that I'm most excited about is the fact that all of this is available in open source and so that each and every one of you can not only take advantage of the technology and pulling it into your existing solutions, but, more importantly, that you can participate in these technologies so going back to bringing more voices to the table when we think about the power of open source and the power of cloud native, it's getting more voices to the table if you're building, agile teams, what are you doing?

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You're asking more voices to be heard: the voice of the user, the voice of your customers, the voice of your operations team, your DBA security compliance network. You know the list goes on for people that you want to hear and have a voice and say and how applications are created, managed and scaled.

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So when I think about cloud foundry- and we talk a lot about where cloud foundry is going and how its evolving we're combining these best-of-breed solutions, either through the open source of getting more voices to the table and building that bridge for other people to participate and bring their ideas, but also the collaboration on the technology aspect. We've started with container runtime and application runtime, but there's so much more potential to bring these technologies together to build on and innovate to, allow these technologies to get to scale.

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And for us what we've seen an interesting phenomenon and I've been an enterprise tech, a really really really long time and I'm not going to give a timeline, because that dates me, but I've seen, containers and so I come through once or twice so. What's interesting to me, though, is seeing how a lot of these organizations are starting to catch on in new ways, beyond just paying lip service to the new technology and figuring out ways to integrate it they're using it to fundamentally alter their business and I?

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Think as we think about what our job is here, it's the realization that technology that we're building today is going to fundamentally change the landscape of many enterprise organizations and not just how they use technology. But it's gonna fund Emilee change the way they offer that technology and engage with their customers.

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An example of that is Home Depot. How many of you are familiar with? Home Depot, you've probably been there once or twice right when you think about Home Depot. Do you think about cutting-edge technology, cloud native applications?

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No, you think about DIY big-box retail, but Home Depot is actually for me, one of the most innovative groups out there right now and the last two years, they've gone from 0 to 2,500 developers. They have 2,500 cloud native developers, writing cloud native applications right now in that two years, they've gotten over 1,700 applications in production alone, so they are revamping their back-end they're, revamping their point-of-sale, but also the e-commerce tool, rental and many other technologies.

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They are bleeding edge for a lot of these new technologies in the retail space they're getting currently over 2 billion requests a month across their platform and for them the fundamental change didn't come just from being able to develop the applications, but it also came from them being able to do one deployment every six months for a single app. So now they're doing deployments every half hour.

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Think about the change that gives to you as an organization when you can deploy a new application to production during business hours every half hour that changes your team's. That changes the way you think about technology, but it changes what you think your potential is. As a company and by the way they're their stock prices, showing that their stock price continues to go up, it's the highest it's ever been and when I think about the role cloud native plays in companies like that, we'll see a lot more of that.

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We'll see a lot more companies like Home, Depot and Comcast and Ford Motor that are fundamentally changing the way they think about these technologies and what they're doing with them, and by the way, one of the most amazing things about Home Depot. Is they took this idea of building developers and creating developers and created boot camps so now that they take team members and train them on how to be a developer?

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If you think about the shortage, we have today in cloud native skills, cloud native developers, a company that can really think about agile, think about cloud native and then turn that into an opportunity for their entire organization is a really powerful statement on the role technology continues to play in the evolution.

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Now it couldn't be up here and not brag a little bit about our community, so I have to give the the plug, one of which is sitting here. Sue, say: hi Susie, we have nearly 70 members in Cloud Foundry foundation. One thing I'm most proud of, though, is over 40% of our member base. Are our end users, so companies like Home, Depot and American Airlines are leveraging this momentum to not only use open-source but give back to open source.

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Over the last two years, we've had a hover 110,000 commits nearly seventy three hundred pull requests and that's across 513 repos Cloud Foundry is very big and very complex, and we continue to be excited about the momentum, the velocity, but the involvement by a variety of companies that continue to make it the best technology possible.

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Earlier this year we also launched a Cloud Foundry, certified developer, training and certification program. To date, we've had over 10,000 people sign up for the training and certification and continue to see organizations like Volkswagen and Home Depot and many others take advantage of that to build their cloud native teams.

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So, as I leave you here today, one of the things that I think a lot about is how do we take what is so special and amazing about open-source and carry that forward beyond just our technology companies, but to the variety of companies that are just starting to think about technology in new ways and so I think a lot about building community, getting more voices to the table in our community and getting more people excited about open-source and cloud native.

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And how do we continue to build those bridges with other communities that are doing really cool stuff, like the kubernetes community envoy, open tracing, G, RPC and many other projects?

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So I would invite you that are here to join our community or come to one of our summit. Our next one will be in Boston in April. You can also run the Boston Marathon at the exact same time, so you could do two things at one time, but I want to leave you with that.

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I think cloud cloud native in the momentum around open-source are just going to continue and I'm super excited to see that growth here at cloud native, con and I'm excited to see so many faces here that want to learn more about our collaboration efforts. So thank you.

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By the way, any questions.

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That's a great question so Kubo and the question was explaining Bosch and kubernetes Kubo, as it was fondly named as kubernetes on Bosch and that was formally donated. It was originally created by Google and pivotal and late 2016 early 2017, and it was formally donated to the Cloud Foundry foundation in June of this year and Kubo is a really confusing concept and so and having that part of Cloud Foundry as a whole was really confusing. And so what we aim to do was build a bigger story.

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So we renamed it in October container, run time so that you have the opportunity to run containerized workloads with on within kubernetes, alongside your cloud native apps that are running on top of Cloud Foundry silastic runtime in the same environment, orchestrated by the same tool chain, and you have that opportunity to choose the right tool for the right job and make it easier for your operators, make it easier for your operators to spin up the VMS to scale the VMS to patch it to handle security and identity management and all of those feature functionalities.

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You can now wrap into a single platform, because we've always advocated that it is the right tool for the right job and elastic runtime. Isn't the right platform for every single application, and more often than not, enterprises need that path forward to say how do I make Pig baby steps to get to 12 factor, apps microservices, even server lists at some point, just how do giving people that path?

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Any other questions? Yes,.

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I, don't have visual aids to do a deep dive comparison, but I will say that one of the biggest comparisons and I feel like Brian Grace Lee at Red. Hat has done the best description, so I will steal from him. Is it structured versus unstructured and having the peace components in one platform versus a highly opinionated structured components?

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In another platform there are some similar technology technologies like the open service broker, API and now kubernetes, but there's a lot of differences in terms of other technologies that are used within Cloud Foundry that are not necessarily a one for one match and OpenShift.

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Any other questions all right. Well, thank you all for your time,.