Cloud Foundry

Chapter 6. Summary

“We excel at focusing on the things that only we can do, which means leaving certain things to others who excel at what THEY do; this is why we work with Cloud Foundry.”

Harel Kodesh, CTO of GE Digital

This book has explored a number of technical driving forces impacting software development and delivery. These driving forces are far more than hype; they provide intrinsic value. To recap:

• Agile is not just the adoption of stories and scrums. It involves a completely different approach from the traditional waterfall development model, with the most critical element being rapid feedback from end users.

• Continuous delivery is not about automation for the sake of reducing cost. It is about ensuring that repeatable, tested, and integrated releases can be placed in the hands of the consumer when required, rather than waiting for an annual release cycle.

• Microservices are not merely about delivering smaller services. They are about faster development of more modular applications with the freedom to be decoupled in development and connected in deployment.

• Cloud-native applications do not simply mean applications running on an IaaS. They are applications designed to thrive and move at will in an ephemeral and highly distributed environment.

If the preceding trends are actively contrasted with traditional enterprise IT, one thing becomes clear. Most teams are full of very talented individuals who, collectively, are a long way from moving at the required pace ...