1© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

@jasonkjackson

Jason K Jackson Pivotal Field CTO APJ

2© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

@jasonkjackson

3© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Welcome to DevOps Days!

4© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

A quick agenda:

• Free market economies 1942• Chinese history• Things that make things fail • Banana sales • Heads that talk• Tribal signaling • Not dying

5© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

“Gale of creative destruction”

a "process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one."

Free Market’s messy way of delivering progress

6© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

A new era begins at the demise of another.

7© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

A Chinese Example

8© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

CrossbowHan Dynasty

500 BC

9© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Gun PowderSong Dynasty

1000 AD

10© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Hand GunYuan Dynasty

1300 AD

11© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Mongols1300 AD

Defeated by Chinese in

battle

No gun powder

12© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Europe1400 AD

Bought gun powder from the Mongols

13© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

The lesson is simple

14© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

If you discover gun powder –Stop selling crossbows.

15© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Fast forward a quick 600 years..

16© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

17© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Walmart - the retailer who dominated the world

• If Walmart were a country, it’s GDP would be 28th in the world, ahead of Austria and just behind Norway

• 11k stores in 27 countries.• 2.2 million employees – roughly the same as the Chinese army.• Sells a billion pounds of bananas a year• Biggest business is teen sportswear, Halloween candy and yarn.• Earned 485 billion in revenue, outpaced number 2, Exxon, by 103

billion.

18© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

19© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Herein lies the paradox of progress

20© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

The existing order must fail.

21© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Software is changing Industries

22© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Software is changing

23© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Who is your competition in a

user-centric world?

24© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

25© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

26© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Does your software remind you of this?

27© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

28© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

It takes a platform…

28

Pivotal CF Spring Cloud

29© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. 29

30© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

31© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

32© 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Wouldn’t it be awesome, to work with these folks?

@jasonkjackson