velocity2010

The O’Reilly Radar

Tim O’Reilly

June 23, 2010Velocity, Santa Clara, CA

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

You know me as a book publisher


What We Really Do At O'Reilly

Change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators


O’Reilly Radar Methodology

“The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” - William Gibson

We “watch the alpha geeks” and think about the futures they are living in

We then look for trend data that tells us that a particular future is becoming mainstream


Sources of my fascination with SysAdmin & Ops

My first book: Masscomp System Administrator’s Guide, 1983

Programming Perl, first edition, 1991 System administration O’Reilly’s “core”

Started pushing our editorial teams early on to look at big sites and operations


I’m here today to talk about where this is going

Cloud computing Data driven applications Mobile Real time Beyond the web


Cloud Computing

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”


Data is the “Intel Inside”


An application that depends on cooperating cloud data services: - Location- Search- Speech recognition- Live Traffic- Imagery


The Yelp Monocle

Find cafes nearby.


The Internet Operating System is A Data Operating System


The Internet Operating System is a Data Operating System

It helps applications find out about– People– Places– Things– Prices– Documents– Images– Sounds– Relationships– ...

and helps people interact with them through services– Search– Payment– Matching and Recognition– ...


In Real Time


Hackers play Entrepreneurs build products for consumer early

adopters Enterprises follow

We saw this with the PC, with the World Wide Web, with open source software, with social networking


AMEE - the world’s energy meter


We’re moving to a world in which every device generates useful data, in which every action creates “information shadows” on the net.


The cloud future includes...

Devices acting as sensors for intelligent data collection

Devices whose UI is on the web rather than the device

Feeding data into multiple online services that will turn into a full-on sensor web

Setting the stage for robotics, augmented reality, and the next generation of personal electronics

Producing more data than we’ve ever had to deal with before

Moving from hackers to innovators to mainstream business impact


People are the “Intel Inside”


“Harnessing Collective Intelligence”


The Open Source Paradigm Shift

May 6, 2003

Tim O'Reilly O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

www.oreilly.com


Software as ServiceVon Kempelen's Mechanical Turk


“You are all inside the Amazon application”


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“The Web is changing the way we live and touches every person alive. As more and more people depend on the Web, they depend on us. Web Operations is work that matters.”

--Jesse Robbins


“Changing the world by sharing the knowledge of innovators.”


“Operations is where big decisions are made & policies executed that affect people & societies.

There is almost nothing to guide us.”

--Jesse Robbins


“Figuring out this stuff is hard. We'll make mistakes. That's okay. ”

--Jesse Robbins


“[The wall] was beautiful, but not because of any masterful intellectual planning or any scientific supervision of the job, or any added expenditures to “stylize” it. It was beautiful because the people who worked on it had a way of looking at things that made them do it right unselfconsciously. They didnʼt separate themselves from the work in such a way as to do it wrong. [...] In each case thereʼs a beautiful way of doing it and an ugly way of doing it, and in arriving at the high-quality, beautiful way of doing it, both an ability to see what “looks good” and an ability to understand the underlying methods to arrive at that “good” are needed.”

--Robert Pirsig,Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance


“Do the right thing. You will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.”

--Mark Twain


Switching tracks (a bit)...


For more information

The Open Source Paradigm Shift (2003) http://bit.ly/cKLSUP

What is Web 2.0? (2005) http://oreil.ly/a0zT65

Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On (2009) http://bit.ly/kEKgs

Government as a Platform (2010) http://opengovernment.labs.oreilly.com/

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http://opengovernment.labs.oreilly.com

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