Reality Check: How much influence do developers really have?

Reality Check:

How much influence do

developers really have?

DevXCon, May 2017

Donnie BerkholzVP, 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

Source: 451/Microsoft Hosting + Cloud Study 2015

Practitioners are powerful

It’s all about social

451 Research, 1Q14 DevOps study, n=200

Salesforce.com / Heroku

Red Hat

SAP

Basho

HashiCorp

IBM

Enstratius

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/

Which developers? No single segmentation• Employer

• Adoption spectrum

• Language

• Framework

• Etc…

Which developers? No single demographic• Enterprise

• Backend systems

• Mobile

• Web

• Agency

• SI

• SMB

• Independent

• ISV

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

Which developers? No single OS

Stack Overflow developer survey,

2016

Ubuntu is 12.3%; Fedora, Mint, Debian are all <2%

Which developers? No single dev tool

Stack Overflow developer survey,

2016

Which developers (DevOps)? No single automation

Stack Overflow, Dec

2016

Developers love Docker

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

Container management is a fragmented mess

Complexity is the new normal

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Developers matter more than ever,

but great DX is harder than ever.

Questions? Comments?

@dberkholz