Presentation at Devops @ EMC World event, 3 May 2015
In Mark Andreessen’s 2010 piece for the Wall Street Journal, in which he declared “Software is Eating the World,” he talked about well established, large enterprises loosing footing to small, nimble startup companies who are far better at bringing software to their consumers. In fact, it’s not as much that these upstarts are better at meeting customer demands, rather they are the cause of the increased expectations, providing consumers with things they didn’t even know they wanted. What are the factors behind their success? New development and operational approaches including extreme agile & test driven development, continuous delivery and devops practices all play a significant role, and while a part of the difference is cultural, tools matter. In this session we’ll look at why a software-driven enterprise needs platform. Google has one. Facebook has one. Netflix has one. Your enterprise needs one.