Partly cloudy

From old school IT to a software org

Avishai Ish-Shalom
CTO, Fewbytes

Creative Destruction

Lifespan of giant enterprises is shrinking:

Software is eating the world

- Marc Andreesen, 2011

• Amazon - largest retailer
• Google - largest ad & marketing
• AirBnB - largest hotel chain
• Uber - largest taxi company
• Skype - largest intl telecom
• LinkedIn - largest recruitment agency
• Netflix - largest TV network

If you go to bed tonight as an industrial company, you're going to wake up a software company.

The world changed.

 

- Jeffrey Immelt,

   General Electric CEO,

   2014

Declining interest

Vendor R&D Spending

XaaS

• Online
• Operated by 3rd parties
• Independent agenda
• Self service
• API driven
• Pay as you go

 

"The Cloud"

Open Source

• Self hosted
• Self operated
• Flexible, modifiable

Only 2 consumption models for technology

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

W. Edward Deming

What does it mean to be a software company?

• Everything is software
• Developers, developers, developers
• Feedback cycles and independence
• Services, not projects

SD*

• Commodity hardware
• Everything software controlled
• APIs
• Scalable, distributed

 

The value is in the software, not the hardware!

Independence, feedback

• N-way communication problem
• Queueing
• Conway's Law
• Agile
• Align responsibility with ability

The Cloud is a set of APIs

• Self Service
• API first
• Shared
• Pay per use

Services, not projects

• Services exist until decommission
• No "end date"
• Respond to changing demand
• Continuously improve
• Projects end up unmaintained

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