Learn why infrastructure has become programmable, composable, and now enables a bridge between infrastructure teams and application developers.

1. Infrastructure is Architecture
An infrastructure odyssey: past, present, future
Joe Duffy

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3. Infrastructure is
Important — For All of Us…
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4. If you’re a developer:
● Infrastructure matters!
● Infinite capabilities an arm’s length away
● The cloud is your new superpower 💪
If you’re an infrastructure engineer, SRE, or operator:
● Build bridges to your developers
● Entire team will go faster!
● The cloud is your new superpower 💪
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5. How did we get here? 🤔
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6. 60s-70s: Computing Foundations
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7. Emerald
80s-90s: Concurrent and Distributed Languages
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Andy giveth, and
Bill taketh away

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12. 00s-10s: Asynchronous Programming
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14. Now: The Cloud Era
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16. Of Distributed Computing
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17. Infrastructure is
Programmable
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19. Infrastructure APIs
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20. Infrastructure SDKs
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21. Infrastructure as Code
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23. Infrastructure is
Composable
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24. Build bigger things
out of smaller things
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35. Infrastructure Abstractions
FOUNDATION
BUILDING BLOCKS
Unopinionated support
for all clouds and their
resources.
Containers Serverless Infrastructure
BEST PRACTICES
FRAMEWORKS
Create modern cloud
software using best
practices.
PRODUCTIVITYCONTROL
PATTERNS
LIBRARIES
Cloud-specific libraries for
common patterns and
practices.
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36. Infrastructure is
Architecture
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37. If you’re a developer:
● The cloud is your new superpower 💪
If you’re an infrastructure engineer, SRE, or operator:
● The cloud is your new superpower 💪
✨Reminder✨
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40. Thank You!
Program the cloud at:
https://pulumi.com
@PulumiCorp
Find me at:
https://joeduffyblog.com
@funcOfJoe
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