Open Source Think Tank - NetflixOSS as a Competitive Differentiator. Discussion of OSS strategy and benefits. Overview of NetflixOSS components.

1. Open
Source
as
a
Compe//ve
Differen/ator
Ruslan
Meshenberg
25
March
2014

2. NeAlix

3. Who
am
I?
• Director,
PlaAorm
Engineering
• Leading
NeAlixOSS
Program
• @rusmeshenberg

4. Compe//ve
Differen/ator
• When
a
business
makes
their
product,
or
service,
different
and
unique

5. Open
Source
• Open
Source
SoNware
is
one
that
can
be
freely
used,
changed,
and
shared
by
anyone

6. Wait
a
minute…
• How
does
giving
away
soNware
for
free
create
compe//ve
advantage
/
differen/a/on?

7. Openness
vs.
Strategy
Simon
Wardley
-­‐
Researcher
at
the
Leading
Edge
Forum

8. Beware
of
Geeks
Bearing
GiNs:
Strategies
for
an
Increasingly
Open
Economy
Simon
Wardley
-­‐
Researcher
at
the
Leading
Edge
Forum

9. ABOUT
HOW
NETFLIX
OSS
STARTED…
First,
a
story

10. Before
NeAlixOSS,
our
Open
Culture

11. What’s
our
policy?

13. Establish
our
solu/ons
as
Best
Prac/ces
/
Standards
Hire,
Retain
and
Engage
Top
Engineers
Build
up
NeAlix
Technology
Brand
Benefit
from
a
shared
ecosystem
Goals

14. ESTABLISHING
BEST
PRACTICES

15. NeAlix
PlaAorm
Evolu/on
Bleeding
Edge
Innova/on
Common
Pa]ern
Shared
Pa]ern
2009-­‐2010
2011-­‐2012
2013-­‐2014
NeAlix
ended
up
several
years
ahead
of
the
industry,
but
it’s
not
a
sustainable
posi/on

16. Certainty
vs.
Ubiquity
Simon
Wardley
–
Researcher
at
Leading
Edge
Forum
Bleeding
Edge
Innova/on
Common
Pa]ern
Shared
Pa]ern

17. Making
it
easy
to
follow
Exploring
the
wild
west
each
Fme
vs.
laying
down
a
shared
route

18. BUILDING
TECH
BRAND

19. NeAlixOSS
in
the
Press

20. Over
1000
Meetup
members

21. SHARED
ECOSYSTEM

22. Community
contribu/ons

23. • Announced
March
2013
• $100,000
in
10
categories

24. Judges
Aino
Corry
Program
Chair
for
Qcon/GOTO
Mar/n
Fowler
Chief
Scien/st
Thoughtworks
Simon
Wardley
Strategist
Yury
Izrailevsky
VP
Cloud
NeAlix
Werner
Vogels
CTO
Amazon
Joe
Weinman
SVP
Telx,
Author
“Cloudonomics”

25. To
a
somewhat
mixed
reac/on…

26. But
overall,
a
great
success!

27. HIRE,
RETAIN,
ENGAGE

28. Standard
hiring
prac/ces

29. What
you
really
want

30. Github
is
your
resume

31. BONUS!

32. Side-­‐effects
–
code
quality

33. WHAT
IS
THIS
PLATFORM?

34. Assump/ons
• Slowly
Changing
• Large
Scale
• Rapid
Change
• Large
Scale
• Slowly
Changing
• Small
Scale
• Rapid
Change
• Small
Scale
Speed
Scale
Everything
Works
Everything
Is
Broken
Hardware
Will
Fail
SoNware
Will
Fail
Enterprise
IT
Telcos
Startups
Web
Scale

35. NeAlix
Global
PlaAorm
Cassandra
Replicas
Zone
A
Cassandra
Replicas
Zone
B
Cassandra
Replicas
Zone
C
Regional
Load
Balancers
Cassandra
Replicas
Zone
A
Cassandra
Replicas
Zone
B
Cassandra
Replicas
Zone
C
Regional
Load
Balancers

37. Manage
the
Cloud

38. PlaAorm
Libraries

39. Persistence
Systems

40. Common
Infrastructure

41. Effec/ve
and
happy
developers

42. BIG
Data!

43. In
use
by
many
companies

44. h]p://www.meetup.com/NeAlix-­‐Open-­‐Source-­‐PlaAorm/

45. @NeAlixOSS

46. More
Use
Cases
More
Features
• From
pieces
to
PlaAorm
• Be]er
training
/
ramp
up
• Be]er
portability
• Contribu/ons
from
end
users
• Contribu/ons
from
vendors
What’s
Coming
Next?

47. Whole
is
greater
than
sum
of
the
parts

48. Takeaways
Func9onality
and
scale
now,
portability
later
Moving
from
parts
to
a
plaAorm
Rapid
Evolu9on
–
Low
MTBIMSH
(Mean
Time
Between
Idea
and
Making
Stuff
Happen)
hKp://neAlix.github.com
@NeAlixOSS
@rusmeshenberg