Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/1shkSne. Russell Miles tries to uncover the PaaS truth based on his experiences using and building PaaSs for various organisations. Filmed at qconlondon.com. Russ Miles is Principal Consultant at Simplicity Itself and works with their clients to continuously and sustainably deliver valuable software. Russ' experience covers almost every facet of software delivery having worked across many different domains including Financial Services, Publishing, Defense, Insurance and Search.

1. PaaS…
The Epic Search
for Truth!

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4. Platform as a Service

5. Platform as a Service

6. Platform as a Service

7. Platform as a Service
Low friction deploys

8. Platform as a Service
Low friction deploys
Service discovery and configuration

9. Platform as a Service
Low friction deploys
Service discovery and configuration
Managed scalability

10. Low Friction

12. Discovery and Configuration

13. Managed Scalability

14. Platform as a Service

15. Platform as a Service
Deployment

16. Platform as a Service
Deployment
User
Management

17. Platform as a Service
Deployment
User
Management
Containers

18. Platform as a Service
Deployment
User
Management
Containers
Health monitoring

19. Platform as a Service
Deployment
User
Management
Containers
Service gateways
Health monitoring
Build

20. Message Bus
Platform as a Service
Deployment
User
Management
Bash
Containers
Service gateways
Health monitoring
Build

21. Message Bus
Platform as a Service
Ruby
Deployment
User
Management
Bash
Containers
Application
Server
Service gateways
Health monitoring
Build

22. Multi tenant
Message Bus
Platform as a Service
Application
Server
Ruby
Deployment
User
Management
Bash
Containers
Object Store
Service gateways
Health monitoring
Build

23. Service
Marketplace
Multi tenant
Message Bus
Platform as a Service
Go
Application Python
Server
Ruby
Deployment
User
Management
Bash
Containers
Object Store
Service gateways
Health monitoring
Build

24. Service
Marketplace
Multi tenant
Message Bus
Development
workflow
Service gateways
Platform as a Service
Go
Application Python
Server
Ruby
Deployment
User
Management
Bash
Containers
Database
Object Store
Integration
Health monitoring
Build

25. complicated

26. A foray into history...

27. Remember how we made
software?

28. Ad-hoc Development

29. Many highly intelligent
people considered the
problem..

31. Big Design Up Front

32. Agile/ Adaptive Software

33. Agile/ Adaptive Software
Sanity Restored

34. Remember how we
learned to do application
integration?

35. Ad-hoc Integration

36. Many highly intelligent
people considered the
problem..

38. Big Integration Up Front

39. Lightweight, adaptive
integration

40. Lightweight, adaptive
integration
Sanity Restored

41. Remember how we
learned how to 'do cloud'?

42. Ad hoc Virtual Machines

43. Many highly intelligent
people considered the
problem..

44. Platform as a Service

45. Have we done it again?

46. Yes

47. A Story...

50. “The Elephant in the
Standup”

51. “The Elephant in the
Standup may be
moving…”

52. Hidden Complexity

53. Leaky Abstraction

54. Service
Marketplace
Multi tenant
Message Bus
Development
workflow
Service gateways
Platform as a Service
Go
Application Python
Server
Ruby
Deployment
User
Management
Bash
Containers
Database
Object Store
Integration
Health monitoring
Build

55. Constraining

56. IaaS

57. IaaS++

58. Remember, Cattle

59. The Platform should be as
adaptable as the services

60. How do we get there?

61. Apply Simplicity

62. ORE

64. Antifragility

65. What do we buy?

66. Darwinian Selection

67. Innovation

68. FaaS

69. !67

70. `
(I couldn’t resist…)

71. Low Barriers to Entry

72. Please let’s not recreate
the elephant…

73. Let’s not go back…

76. Thank you!
Hope you had an amazing conference! :-)

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