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March 11, 2020 - Dubai, UAE
Agile, DevOps, Cloud
Practical tools of Digital Transformation

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SUPPORTERS
PLATINUM PARTNERS
GOLD PARTNER BRONZE PARTNERS

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How do you build a
10 billion USD
app in 1 month?
*https://www.statista.com/topics/2018/whatsapp/

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Who are you anyway?
• 15 years in the industry
• Tech support to Skytech L4 fly and fix to Consulting
• Master’s degree in AI
• Largest Defense, Banking and Oil&Gas corporations’
transformations

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ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL COMPANY7 Technology Leaders Working Together

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What do they have in common?

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What do they have in common?
IT transformed from cost generating
to business edge enabling

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What do they have in common?

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Digital transformation

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Success is a company’s ability to see the window
of opportunity and capitalize on it.
https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reason_why_startups_succeed?language=en

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Agile and time to release
TIME TIME
“Big Bang” “Agile”

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How can you be agile here?

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Too many silos of information
Too many handoffs
Too many checks and audits
Too much overhead
Too slow
ORGANIZED AROUND
PROCESS & ROLES

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ORGANIZE AROUND VALUE
APP=

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What is the primary role of IT in an organization?

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What is the primary role of IT in an organization?
Provide services enabling the
business

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IT SERVICES
Service Catalog
EMAIL
File Sharing
Identity
ERP
Intranet
Mobile app 1
Mobile app 2
Web app 1
Hybrid app 1

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Service architecture
Service
LOAD BALANCER
APP1 APP2
DB CLUSTER
DB1 DB2

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Service architecture
ServiceLOAD
BALANCER
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM
CODE
APP1
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM
CODE
APP2
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM
CODE
DB1
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM
CODE
DB2
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM
CODE
DB CLUSTER

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Traditional software lifecycle
Ops
Team
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev
Team
Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
CODE - Ok, our code is ready, let’s get
an approval for deployment to
test
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM

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Traditional software lifecycle
Ops
Team
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev
Team
Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
CODE
- 2 weeks later after all the
approvals
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM

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Traditional software lifecycle
Ops
Team
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev
Team
Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
CODE - Hmm... works on my machine
- Wait, what did we change?
- Let’s try again
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM

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Traditional software lifecycle
Ops
Team
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev
Team
Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
CODE
- After another 2 weeks of approvals
- Still doesn’t work.... ok, let’s try to fix it
in place
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM

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Traditional software lifecycle
Ops
Team
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev
Team
Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM
CODE
- Yay, works!!!!
- Let’s request ops team to deploy it in
production

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Traditional software lifecycle
Ops
Team
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev
Team
Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
CODE
- 3 weeks later, Friday midnight maintenance
window
- Oops.... rollback... hmm, but wait what did we
change on these dev servers??
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM

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Issues
Ops
Team
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev
Team
Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM2
Code
app.js.bak
app.js.bak.bak
app.js.bak.bak.latest
app.js.bak.bak.latest.seriously-latest
app.js.bak.bak.latest.seriously-latest.latestest
Classes,
Objects, MVC,
Macros,
Variables,
Conditionals
Installations,
updates,
maintenance,
backups, capacity
planning, networks,
firewalls
Oh, you didn’t
tell us this
feature exists
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM1
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM3

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DevOps lifecycle
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev/Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
CONTAINER SRV
CODE
REPOSITORY SRV
PLATFORM
CODE
Container
TESTS
DEV SERVERS
DEV SERVERS
DevOps
Team
PLATFORM CODE
APP CODE
TEST CODE
- version control
- automation
CONTINUOUS
INTEGRATION SRV
CONTAINER SRV

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DevOps lifecycle
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev/Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
CODE
REPOSITORY SRV
CONTINUOUS
INTEGRATION SRV
PLATFORM
CODE
Container
TESTS
DEV SERVERS
DEV SERVERS
DevOps
Team
PLATFORM CODE
APP CODE
TEST CODE
- version control
- automation
PLATFORM
CODE
Container
TESTS
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
CONTAINER SRV
CONTAINER SRV
Hey, new code!
Ok, let me deploy and test
- New feature, fix, major change
- Commit to repository
Test failed

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DevOps lifecycle
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev/Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
CODE
REPOSITORY SRV
CONTINUOUS
INTEGRATION SRV
PLATFORM
CODE
Container
TESTS
DEV SERVERS
DEV SERVERS
DevOps
Team
PLATFORM CODE
APP CODE
TEST CODE
- version control
- automation
PLATFORM
CODE
Container
TESTS
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
CONTAINER SRV
CONTAINER SRV
Hey, new code!
Ok, let me deploy and test
- Roll back last commit, fix,
commit again
Test OK
PLATFORM
CODE
Container
TESTS
New release!
Final review and approval

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What if we just want the code?

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Cloud

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APP
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM
CODE
Cloud services
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
I want 2 CPU, 16GB RAM, Windows 2016
Will install my IIS and deploy my C# code
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
I want a really fast Microsoft SQL server,
don’t care how it works and how its
managed. Will just deploy my SQL code
Container as a Service (CaaS)
I want a strong and managed
Docker server that I will deploy my
containers to.
Function as a Service (PaaS)
I want an artificial intelligence
service that I will send 1000
images to be recognized

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What cloud really is?
- Compute/Storage/Network farm
- Virtualization
- Automation
- Self service
- Standarization
- Scalability
- Pay as you go

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Types of cloud
Private
VMware vRealize
RedHat OpenStack
Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Public
Amazon
Azure
GCP

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Let’s combine these two
MVP -> Canary testing -> Feedback ->
Beta -> Feedback -> Release 1.0
- Code
- Cloud platform as a service
- Code repository as a service
- CI/CD automation as a service

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Airbnb MVP under 1 month
Code
repository
CI/CD
Platform Dev
Platform Prod
DevOps eng
Architect
Dev front
Dev back
Code
Consultant

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WhatsApp MVP in under 1 month
DevOps Eng
Architect
Team
Dev Back
Dev Front
PLATFORM DEV
PLATFORM PROD
Code
Repository
CI/CD
Research / Consultant

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Remember about the change

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