Current trends in software development such as Microservices, Containers, and Orchestration. Look into the future of IoT, AR/VR, and voice interfaces as well.

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Microservices the modern IT stack:
Trends of tomorrow
Jonah Kowall, VP Market Development and Insights
Twitter: @jkowall

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As of last Tuesday night...

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Digital agility
The future of business will be
defined by how well companies,
organizations and governments use
technology to engage with partners
and customers across a wide range
of digitalized processes.
...organizations must also confront
the need to change themselves.
Organizational changes, cultural
changes, and shifts in the very
nature of their business will present
the stiffest challenges.
http://gtnr.it/2fxuWnk

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Future corporate goals: Scalable revenue
• “Gartner predicts that by 2018, 25 percent of new mobile apps will talk to IoT devices”
• As new technologies grow in importance as a way to control and interact with things,
app interfaces will fade
http://gtnr.it/2eFhiRq

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New interfaces require connectivity and performance
• Is this irritating or unusable to you?
What’s on my calendar
today?
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Technology influences culture
Your vendors believe this to be the case

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Really, culture influences technology

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Centralized versus Decentralized
DevOps creates grassroots empowerment
• Small 1 or 2 pizza teams own a product
• Everyone makes decisions
• Everyone is accountable for full lifecycle
• Agile Dev and Ops
Technology has very little to do with DevOps aside from open and
integration points
Vendors will be happy to sell you 100 units of DevOps

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Conway’s Law:
Organizations which design systems... are
constrained to produce designs which are
copies of the communication structures of
these organizations.
— M. Conway

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But… He worked on MUMPS
• MUMPS (Massachusetts
General Hospital Utility
Multi-Programming
System) - Late 1968
• Now called Intersystems
Cache
• Core of Epic EHR which
makes $2b in revenue,
which still looks like it’s
from 1990

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Monolithic organization
Courtesy of Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

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Agile organization
Courtesy of Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

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Microservices aren’t for everyone?
That’s not what I’m reading on the internet
• Everything is not a Sheep
(redis) for example my Dog
(mysql)
• Centralized versus
decentralized data federation
is a major challenge
• Data rearchitecture is difficult
• According to many without
this change you aren’t doing
Microservices

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New data patterns
Courtesy of Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

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Team technology choice
• Can use any technology in services since they are short lived and
easily rewritten

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Microservices are at peak hype
• Doesn’t mean
this fits everyone
• Doesn’t solve
people and
process issues
• Culture is key

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Microservices or Miniservices?
Miniservices = refactored SOA, driven by composition and reuse
Microservices = web-scale SOA, driven by agility and scalability

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Managing service based apps
• Blinders come on, focus is on me and my team
• Each team owns the lifecycle of a service
• Each team picks tools which work best for them
• Not consistent across teams
• Creates challenges in problem isolation when it traverses a service boundary

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Managing end user experience in service based apps
• Gathering end user experience metrics in isolation causes issues
with connection to backend.
• Many organizations build another team for this to handle the siloed
nature of the DevOps teams which are service aligned

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Deploying service based apps
• All the hype just like Hypervizor was, but it doesn’t matter in the long run
• Containers easier to automate
and orchestrate, orchestration is
the key addition
• Tend to be stateless or
immutable in order to
orchestrate
• Orchestration is the key
difference between these
technologies

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Scaling service based apps

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Future of computing

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Docker and Cloud
State of the Cloud: DevOps Trends Report 2016
http://bit.ly/2fLauVi

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Hybrid Orchestration
• Create containers with apps/code (generated from build system)
• Use infrastructure as code to manage the containers and provisioning in a
cloud agnostic manner (Terraform)
• Terraform can deploy on any infrastructure in an agnostic manner
• Kubernetes or Swam can be provisioned and orchestration automated
Next level systems will have to manage across boundaries, alternately
your PaaS can do this for you. They must be fed with better data from
monitoring tools…

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Edge Computing: Impact, barriers
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Fragmented
device support
Interoperability,
data security
Reliance on
cloud
Analyze or
go blind
COMPLEXITY

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IoT Silos
• All of these new IoT
technologies and
projects have
dependencies on
existing systems…
and the cloud
• Problem isolation just
got even harder
620 professionals involved with IOT within their respective organizations

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Solutions for tomorrow

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Information overload ^ 2
Each layer has a tool, which generates too much data
50 VMs
500 Containers

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Graphs and dashboards don’t scale
Analytics?
Who’s doing the
analysis?
You are!

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At the brink of AI

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Algorithmic AI Operations (AIOps)
• Rebranding of ITOA with
actual analytics
• Pairing automation with data
and algorithms
• Coupling service
management with monitoring
and automation

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Thank you