Donnie will describe the evolving state of DX, based on his experience as an industry analyst in his past 3 roles and an open-source developer for 13+ years. He'll present quantitative data on the value and influence of developers. Donnie will also highlight key trends and emerging populations and illustrate how to target them. Finally, he'll include tangible examples from both large and small companies across a broad spectrum of categories to show how they cope with the dynamic state of DX.

1. Reality Check:
How much influence do
developers really have?
DevXCon, May 2017
Donnie Berkholz
VP, IT Service Delivery

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DevOps (n): A philosophy of
organizational culture, structure
and practices designed to build
and operate the right service,
more quickly and reliably.
Donnie Berkholz, 451 Research

4. Source: 451/Microsoft Hosting + Cloud Study 2015
Practitioners are powerful

5. It’s all about social
451 Research, 1Q14 DevOps study, n=200

6. Salesforce.com / Heroku

7. Red Hat

8. SAP

9. Basho

10. HashiCorp

11. IBM

12. Enstratius

13. Most open-source devs ride solo
Donnie Berkholz Source: http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/04/22/the-size-of-open-source-communities-and-its-impact-upon-activity-licensing-and-hosting/

14. Which developers? No single segmentation
• Employer
• Adoption spectrum
• Language
• Framework
• Etc…

15. Which developers? No single demographic
• Enterprise
• Backend systems
• Mobile
• Web
• Agency
• SI
• SMB
• Independent
• ISV

16. Which developers? No single language/framework
• “Enterprise”: Java, C#, C/C++
• “Webby”: JavaScript / Node.js / TypeScript / CoffeeScript
• React, Angular, Vue.js
• Dynamic: Python (Django), PHP, Ruby (Rails)
• Mobile: Obj-C / Swift
• Systems: Go / Rust
• Data: R
• Functional: Erlang, Elixir, Scala, Clojure, F#, Haskell

17. Which developers? No single OS
Stack Overflow developer survey,
Ubuntu is 12.3%; Fedora, Mint, Debian are all <2%

18. Which developers?
No single dev tool
Stack Overflow developer survey,

19. Which developers (DevOps)? No single automation
Stack Overflow, Dec

20. Developers love Docker

21. Devs are taking over tech
“ One of the biggest changes is that we no longer have
an official ‘architecture’ team. Instead, we have made
‘architecture’ an ‘ingredient’ on each of our teams.”
http://tech.gilt.com/post/102628539834/making-architecture-work-in-microservice
– Lauri Apple, Gilt Groupe, 14 Nov 2014

22. Container management is a fragmented mess

23. Complexity is the new normal

24. Some content from this presentation is Creative-Commons licensed.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Developers matter more than ever,
but great DX is harder than ever.
Questions? Comments?
@dberkholz