A Brave New World
Over the past few years, MagenTys has delved deeper and deeper into the world of continuous delivery and cloud native application development. As part of that journey, our use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) both internally on products we build and externally with our valued clients has grown dramatically. Yes we use Azure too, but DevOps was born in the Linux world!
We started out with virtual machines to do a job, but quickly turned to serverless and immutable infrastructure to allow blue / green deployment and unlock the benefits of continuous delivery.
In early April, I spent a few days at the AWS Summit and the best keynote was undoubtedly from Rod Drury, the Xero CEO. He rubbished the idea that the Innovation Adoption Bell curve was still relevant. It's not early vs late, it's fast vs slow. The slow will not exist in a few years as the fast will eat them alive. This is what Xero is doing as we speak.
The opportunity presented by the AWS elastic computing model has been huge. Bigger than huge - it has changed the industry forever. The disruption continues as we move into a phase where managing servers is now optional. I want the businesses I work with to be in the game of delivering value to their clients – not managing servers.
We now have 4 projects running with some or nearly all components being serverless. The cost proposition in terms of operations and infrastructure is compelling. Too compelling to ignore any longer.
As part of our journey towards an era of #NoOps, I'd like to thank each one of our staff and clients whom have played a part in helping us become a key player in the AWS market here in Perth and in the UK.
Perth may well have invented NIHS (not-invented-here-syndrome) and it has a long way to go in terms of cloud adoption and maturity.
But if we don't want to be a slow economy, eaten by faster competitors in the east and in Asia, we need to move into the future. We have the talent, the business and the finance, all we need is the willpower.
Forward thinking requires guts, leadership and vision. But more than ever, today, it requires speed!