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

Let's Talk

Conway's Law

organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations

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