10.20.2005

Cloud First: On Forking, Forging and Foraging

Digital London March 2012

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Fragmentation of Everything

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Explosion of Forms

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Cloud is eating the World

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Craft Trumps Outsourcing

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Forage

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Then Forge

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On Quality

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Making Differences

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Resolving Differences

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In Praise of Forking

Open Source used to count download numbers as a measure of developer success.

Today we increasingly use forks as the metric of traction.

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No Permission Required

Source @cbtacey, AppFog

data from National Venture Capital Association and UNH Center for Venture Research

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The Value of Data

“The lumber industry sells what used to be waste — sawdust, chips, and shredded wood — for a pretty profit. Today you’ll find these by-products in synthetic fireplace logs, concrete, mulch, particle board, fuel, livestock and pet bedding, winter road traction, weed killing and more.”

Jason Fried, 37signals

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GitHub Change

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Ohloh Monthly Contributors

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Language Tiers

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Embrace and extend: the sincerest form of flattery

“We saw more and more people were writing cloud applications in Java.”

Amitabh Srivastava, Microsoft SVP Server and Cloud Division, announcing “first class support” for Java in Azure

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Build on CI

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The End of No Software

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A marriage of convenience: divide and rule

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A little too early

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Cloud Factoring

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Credits

Photos:

SF in Cloud – SF ChronicleCraftsman – A. Davey on FlickrForge – Stewart Black on FlickrRiveting – Encyclopedia of New ZealandForage – honestcooking.com