the business state of node.js 2015
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February 6, 2015
The Business State of NodeJoe McCann
@joemccann
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“This à la carte model is for
morons.”
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The Great Unbundling™
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• Symantec splitting up into two separate public
companies
• Ebay and PayPal becoming two separate public
companies
• Dell goes private; proclaims it will be “more flexible
and entrepreneurial"
• HP divides into two separate public companies
• Larry Ellison steps down as CEO; unbundles CEO
role by electing two co-CEOs to run Oracle
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IT Organizations Are Unbundling
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Enterprise Teams and Technical Debt
• Years and years of technical debt has accrued
• Sprint velocities tend to decline or are sub-optimal
• Innovation actually impeded by technical debt
• Talent acquisition/retention challenging with years of
technical debt
• Innovators dilemma very real for IT orgs of large
size/scale
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“The Monolith Is Dead.”
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Startups
• Cost of starting a tech company orders of magnitude
smaller than 10 years ago
• Idea -> Prototype -> v 1.0 -> Iterate
• Startups using Node in droves for speed and scale
(not legacy tech)
• Examples: Uber, Fitbit, Polyvore, Earnest, Media
REDEF, Circle, Vungle, Moovweb, etc.
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The Grand Transformation™
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• 2015 is the year of the server upgrade for a number of
large and mid-sized companies
• bit.ly/2015-server-upgrade
• "...we raise our total 2015 server unit growth
estimate from 8% to 10%…” -- Morgan Stanley
• Re-architecting entire IT systems frequent and
industry agnostic
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“Every company is a technology
company.”
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PayPal App Growth for CY 2014
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Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
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PayPal Talent Acquisition CY 2014
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400+ JavaScript Developers
Hired in 2014
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Actual Busine$$
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Walmart’s Black Friday
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All web traffic ran through
Node.js servers on Black
Friday 2014
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Walmart’s Black Friday
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Walmart.com had ZERO
downtime on Black Friday 2014
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Down on Black Friday 2014
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Micro over Mono
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