Microsoft's Cloud-Native Workshop Presentation

1. Digital
Transformation
Jason Kappel
Cloud Bodhisattva
Microsoft

2. The Old Microsoft

3. What was
going on?
• Fixed Mindset
• Good enough attitude
• Innovation slowed
• Monolithic software releases
every 3-5 years
• Everyone waited for the first
service pack
• We missed the market
• Out of touch with our customers

4. What Changed
• New CEO
• Satya Nadella
• Growth Mindset
• A shift to continuous improvement
• Continuous Learning
• We started listening to our customers
• We started to experiment

5. The methods
• DevOps
• Microservices

6. DevOps
• The Three Ways
• Systems Thinking - Flow
• Amplify Feedback Loops
• Continual Learning and
Experimentation

7. The way we used to build software
Cool Product

8. The old way of building portfolios
Cool Product Wiz Bang Thing Killer Innovation Game Changer

9. The Modern App
Cool Product
Loosely Coupled Microservices
Business Logic Orchestrates to Microservices

10. A Modern Portfolio
Cool Product Wiz Bang Thing Killer Innovation Game Changer
Loosely Coupled Microservices
Business Logic Orchestrates to Microservices

11. Break your
work down
STOP doing waterfall
project management!!
Start with the MVP
Iterate
Pivot when needed
Work in small batches
Release early and
often
Automate, Automate,
Automate

12. Essential reading
• Mindset – Carol Dweck
• The Phoenix Project – Gene Kim
• Dev Ops Handbook – Gene Kim
• SCRUM: The art of doing twice the work in half the time – Jeff
Sutherland
• Building Microservices – Sam Newman
• Domain Driven Design – Eric Evans