DevNet Create: Where Apps meet Infrastructure — Let’s Make Old and Clunky New and Sexy
When I look in the mirror, I’m a dinosaur, a T-Rex; a cool, carnivorous, powerful one. I’m a hot rod, a 1970 Chevelle SS, with a 454 producing 450 horsepower and 500 pounds of torque with a 4-Speed transmission. I’m an 80’s rock singer, I have great hair, ripped jeans and a voice made for power ballads, I’m backed by sweet riffs, thunderous beats and explosive bass.
In Reality; I know I’m really kind-of old and clunky. I was good back in the day, smoking my tires, power-braking in the parking lot after school with the T-Tops off, windows down and radio cranked. Sigh… I want to be new and sexy!
I won’t despair and you shouldn’t either; DevNet Create is coming, it is the developer conference that speaks to today’s developer about what interests them, what motivates them, what moves them into the new/next phase of tech advances that are new and sexy.
I have been working with infrastructure for years; many, many, many years. Does that sound boring? I hope it doesn’t because it isn’t to me, to me it is the ultimate power. I am the controller, automater, and orchestrator, of the core of the “Data Center.” Not just the Network, but the Compute, and Storage and more… The Database clusters, The Management pods, The Virtualization servers, The PXE infrastructure, you get the idea.
I can coordinate, integrate, migrate, mitigate, automate and orchestrate. I can assess, downgrade, upgrade, quantify, notify and assure I comply, all with APIs!
I’ve taken my “Old and Clunky” code (it’s not really — to be honest) and I added “New and Sexy”, with cloud capabilities, think voice controlled data center management. Or how about a new kind of integration with “ChatOps”, think Spark Bot integration with Tropo APIs, there may even be a learning opportunity for this at DevNet Create (spoiler alert: there will be!)
The best way to go from Old and Clunky to New and Sexy? Come to DevNet Create
Submit a paper; the deadline was extended. And if you’re going to talk about DevNet Create, be sure to include #DevNetCreate
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