the cloud and the new kingmakers

10.20.2005

The Cloud and the New Kingmakers

June 2014

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air.

- J.R.R. Tolkein Flickr: The GameWay

The Cloud

Flickr: Tom Raftery

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“EC2 means anyone with a $10 bill can rent a 10-machine cluster with 1TB of distributed storage for 8 hours.”

- Flip Kromer

Cause

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Effect

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The Rewards of Developer Focus

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And It’s Not Just The Cloud

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Technology adoption today is bottom up

CIO

DEVELOPERS

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What IT Decision Makers Think is Being Used

CIO

DEVELOPERS

What Developers Want to Use

What is Actually Being Used

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“How did this happen?”

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For the first time in history

developers don’t need permission

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And they are increasingly empowered

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Education and Training

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Collaboration Mechanisms

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Marketplaces for Goods & Services

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It’s the end of procurement as we’ve

known it

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Still skeptical?

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Consider language adoption

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Consider the state of standards

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Consider software adoption

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“Ok, fine. Everything has changed. But

what do I do?”

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/yersinia/4440378237/

Treat developers like a baby treats bacteria

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“As any new parent knows, infants are notoriously susceptible to bacterial infections. A study now suggests that the body engineers this vulnerability deliberately, allowing beneficial microbes to colonize the baby’s gut, skin, mouth and lungs.”

Nature, 11.6.13

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How?

Step 1: Learn from King Cnut

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Cnut set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes. Yet "continuing to rise as usual [the tide] dashed over his feet and legs without respect to his royal person.”

Source: Wikipedia

Step 2: Ease Off The Brake

Flickr: Nicholas Serre

Step 3: Learn Jujitsu

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"Jutsu" can be translated to mean "art" or "technique" and represents manipulating the opponent's force against himself rather than confronting it with one's own force.

Source: Wikipedia

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