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-Today, StackStorm emerged from stealth mode and revealed details of a DevOps solution for IaaS cloud environments, with a specific focus on OpenStack at the present time. In much the same vein that Pivotal sought to bring the computing power, scalability and operational efficiencies of enterprises such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Twitter to mainstream enterprise IT, StackStorm proposes to bring automation technology analogous to that used by companies like Facebook to enterprises, SMBs and startups alike […] +
Today, StackStorm emerged from stealth mode and revealed details of a DevOps solution for IaaS cloud environments, with a specific focus on OpenStack at the present time. In much the same vein that Pivotal sought to bring the computing power, scalability and operational efficiencies of enterprises such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Twitter to mainstream enterprise IT, StackStorm proposes to bring automation technology analogous to that used by companies like Facebook to enterprises, SMBs and startups alike […]
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@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ It might be worth discussing the 10-100x productivity improvement:
a. Is it real? Organizations like PayPal and eBay have published their own data showing at least a 7x improvement in development velocity. And of course the DevOps surveys by folks like Puppet Labs have shown even higher improvements in the speed and quality of development. And, again, our own experience indicates it is very real. One operator tells us that they went from building and deploying 1 new service a year before DevOps to 54 in the 12 months after they got up to speed with a DevOps approach. Revolutionary.
b. Is 10x a lot? Software getting built and operated 10x better is changing the world. A comparison that Dmitri made in his talk at SCALE12x this past February was to the tractor. As I think any casual student of the 20th century knows, the tractor changed the world by enabling urbanization and more. According to most economic historians, the tractor was about 4x more productive as measured by crops produced vs. input in human and machine energy. IT fairly suddenly figuring out how to develop and operate software 10-100x more productively compares favorably with the most important improvements in human history.
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So – GREAT. The world is changing. What do we and other DevOps solution providers have to do with this? Ask yourself – why don’t we ALL just jump on the DevOps bandwagon and start building and operating software in this new way? I’ll take on that question tomorrow as the second driver that led us to start StackStorm.
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There are not enough DevOps unicorns in the world – and there never will be.
The ideal DevOps engineer is a full stack engineer who can code at least in python and is really good at cross-functional collaboration. We are a magnet for this type of unicorn – we have hired a few and have a handful in our utterly kick-ass advisory board.
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There is a huge amount of DevOps washing going on right now, and for good reason. As CA pointed out in a recent blog, most CIOs now understand that DevOps, done right, is revolutionary. And, what is more, they understand they need to do stuff to get DevOps working. And that stuff includes buying new tools.
So I’m not the only person building software to notice that there is a massive opportunity to provide CIOs with the tooling they need to build and operate software in a DevOps approach. As a result it feels like every software vendor in the world is rebranding their products as DevOps friendly.
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But they cannot all really be “DevOps friendly”, can they? Are they all really able to be tied together in a loosely coupled architecture with no single points of failure? Of course not. Believe the hype – DevOps is fundamental and is happening. On the other hand, don’t believe the hype – most vendors must rewrite their infrastructure software in order to be able to fit into a DevOps environment and hence to be able to add value to DevOps.
Here’s a cheat sheet of what makes a set of code DevOps friendly:
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StackStorm and the OpenStack operations automation software that we and the broader community are developing and contributing content to will, we hope, be at the core of a virtuous cycle along these lines.
However, we also think that we can build a virtuous cycle right into the software itself. Self-driving cars, with incredibly advanced control theory based software driving them and enabling advances in much of robotics, now work well. Why not apply similar algorithms to operations automation so that we can increasingly build a learning brain that tells us how our automations are performing and that suggests new ones we might consider and that even authors new automations for us?
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It sounds like science fiction. Except – this future already exists. The top operators already do this.
Applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to operations automation is the fifth driver for us founding StackStorm:
Software can learn to write better software.
@@ -323,18 +323,18 @@Driver #6 I hope you gathered by reading these blogs. It is an honor and a blessing to be at the forefront of such a shift in how software is development and operated. It is a blast. And the team we’ve built so far at StackStorm comprises tough, driven, and fun people with whom to fight and change the world. In the end, it all comes down to people. We are recruiting the very best as fellow StackStormers and as additional beta users and also as partners.
-Do you want to learn more? So do we! Register today to request an invite to our beta program. The ideal candidates will already have started down the path towards DevOps friendly operations automation and likely will be a little nervous about the wiring tying together their systems. We strongly prefer users with OpenStack as part of their immediate plans.
+Do you want to learn more? So do we! Register today to request an invite to our beta program. The ideal candidates will already have started down the path towards DevOps friendly operations automation and likely will be a little nervous about the wiring tying together their systems. We strongly prefer users with OpenStack as part of their immediate plans.
We invite you to get in touch with us, and stay tuned.
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For example, whereas Nexenta was generally a scrappy company that needed to break the rules to shake the status quo, StackStorm’s personality is more that of a relatively polished upstart that expects to be the best at everything it does.
While Nexenta had to prove to the world that storage was vulnerable to disruption, StackStorm’s mission is in part to help democratize the disruption everyone acknowledges has happened and is happening with hyper scale, software defined data centers blowing past the performance and flexibility of legacy approaches.
-With that in mind, I’m spending significantly more time at StackStorm helping our CTO Dmitri and the team to nail product strategy with the help of an all star cast of advisors. This cast of advisors is great to work with, each of them proven in their field. And we are putting them to work.
+With that in mind, I’m spending significantly more time at StackStorm helping our CTO Dmitri and the team to nail product strategy with the help of an all star cast of advisors. This cast of advisors is great to work with, each of them proven in their field. And we are putting them to work.
The newest member of our advisory board is legendary. His name is Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli – he’s the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, and his track record is even longer than his name and title.
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Alberto may be best known for co-founding the top two EDA (electronic design automation) companies, Synopsis and Cadence. He did so at a time that others were incredulous at the idea that you could both fully automate the design of integrated circuits and mathematically prove that the designs would work. He and his team pushed the boundaries of both software and the underlying mathematics of control systems and created a new industry segment.
Alberto and his students have applied breakthroughs in machine learning and automation to everything from self-driving cars, to auto-pilots, to the internet of things and intelligent swarms and more.
At StackStorm “Professor Alberto” is helping us build towards our vision of truly self-driving data centers. The conditions are right for this vision to come true for more than just the top few operators (which are already executing on their version of the vision). We take confidence in the fact that the impossible can be made possible with the help of leaders and mentors like Alberto, who have created closed loop, learning systems in neighboring domains.
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