Accelerating scale from startups to enterprise peter bakas

1. Accelerating Scale
From Startups to Enterprise
Peter Bakas
DataStax

2. Hello!I am Peter Bakas
VP, Cloud Platform Engineering
DataStax Managed Cloud
@peter_bakas
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3. 2017

4. DataStax
Data Management for Cloud Applications
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5. DataStax Announces its Acquisition
of DataSCALe on November 15,
2016
Datascale is a provider of cloud-based Management for Data Infrastructure
2017

6. 2.
Product
1.
Culture
3.
Technology
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7. 1.
Culture
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8. 2017
Freedom &
Responsibility

9. “It may well be the
most important
document to ever
come out of Silicon
Valley”
-Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook
COO
2017

10. Every Company is Different
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11. × Team
× Communication
× Data Driven
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12. × Attitude, Aptitude, Abilities
× High Performance
× The Reasonable Person Principle
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13. × Open, direct, honest
× Listen instead of reacting
× More context, less control
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14. × Move from assumptions
× Use data, don’t watch data
× Provide better context
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15. 2.
Product
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16. “We didn’t do anything
wrong, but somehow
we lost...”
-Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO
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17. 2017

18. If you don’t Change,
you will be eliminated
from the competition
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19. 2017
Let Reusability drive new
Value

20. 3.
Technology
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21. 2017
Time Based Economy

22. 2017
× We have always done it this way
× We are different
× We can do it better

23. 2017
× Auto Scaling
× Self Service
× Self Healing

24. 2017
× Too many projects
× Need to migrate
× Moved on
× What took so long?

25. 2017
× Central Teams
× SaaS Providers
× Cloud Providers

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30. 1,000,000,000,00
0Events/Day
99.999%Events Delivered/Day
12,500,000,000Events/Sec (Peak)
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31. 1.4PB/Day
(35GB/Sec Peak)
Whoa! That’s a big number.
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Total Volume of Events Processed
EveryDay

32. A true Story!
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Keystone went Live 10/27/2015

33. 2 days Later...
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34. Place your screenshot here
80% “Loss”
over next 6
hours
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35. “We don’t celebrate
failure in Silicon valley.
We celebrate
learning.”
-Reid Hoffman, Linkedin
2017

36. × There are times when things go wrong and
there is no turning back
× Reduce Complexity
× Minimize blast radius
× Find a way to start over fresh
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37. Place your screenshot here
STSI
Short Term Stand in
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38. Place your screenshot here
Failover
Time is of the Essence - Failover in less than 5 mins
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39. Questions???
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40. × Full Automation
× Self Healing
× Expect and Exercise Failure
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41. THAN
KS!You can find me at @peter_bakas
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