Lessons from the FieldScaling OpenStack Technology

Journey...

OSCON 2011

Technologist, does not enjoy running a company.

That is a story many people can tell.

Open Stack, switched. Quickly.

OSCON 2011

Technologist, does not enjoy running a company.

That is a story many people can tell.

Open Stack, switched. Quickly.

Glance

Nova

Swift

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Nova Horizon

Keystone

Swift

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ServicevsShipping

Observations at Sun

ServicevsShipping

Observations at Sun

Converged Cloud

Traditional IT

PrivateManaged

Public

1 server every 15 seconds

It was real!

What have we learned?

Security

The Web is UTF-8

VARCHAR !=

Primary Key

Polling Does Not Scale

Mindshare Matters

You can fix the Technology

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Diablo v1.0

Diablo v1.0

Essex v2.0

Diablo v1.0

Essex v2.0

Folsum v3.0

Good Open Source Usage(The Bugzilla Dilemma)

Continuous

Integration

Deployment

Continuous

Integration

(not solved)Deployment

Other Lessons from the Field...

(The observations of an Open Source Developer...)

It turns out,...there is more money

for the asking.

Implementation

!=

API Documentation, tests.

Tell memslap story

Documentation, tests.

Tell memslap story

“the UNIX of the Cloud”- Marten Mickos, Eucalyptus CEO

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,

then they fight you, then you win.”

- Marten Mickos, MySQL CEO, quoting Mahatma Gandhi in reference to Oracle’s actions against MySQL INC.

UNIX

Won!

Interested?

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