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How did we end up here? Todd Montgomery - @toddlmontgomery Martin Thompson - @mjpt777 How bad can things really be? Software Project Success Rates Successful Challenged Failure Ad-hoc 49% 37% 14% Iterative 61% 28% 11% Agile 60% 28%

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How did we end up here?

Todd Montgomery - @toddlmontgomery Martin Thompson - @mjpt777

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How bad can things really be?

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Successful Challenged Failure

Ad-hoc 49% 37% 14% Iterative 61% 28% 11% Agile 60% 28% 12% Traditional 47% 36% 17% Software Project Success Rates

  • Dr Dobbs 2010
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< 10 11 - 25 > 25

Ad-hoc 70% 58% 40% Iterative 88% 68% 55% Agile 83% 70% 55% Traditional 69% 51% 50% Software Project Success Rates – by Team Size

  • Dr Dobbs 2010
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Well that’s the

  • ptimistic view!
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Successful: 32% Challenged: 44% Failure: 24%

– Standish Group Chaos Report 2010

Software Project Success Rates

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< $350,000: 20% $350,000 - $1,000,000: 25% > $1,000,000: 28%

– Gartner 2012

Software Project Failure Rates

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“...the larger the company, the greater the chance that what drives tech investments isn't what's best for the business, but what's best for the decision-maker's career.”

– Information Week (EA Section)

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Sacred Cows - It’s BBQ Time!!!

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Enterprise Software

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ent•ter•prise

noun \ˈen-tə(r)-ˌprīz\ : a project or activity that involves many people and that is often difficult : the ability or desire to do dangerous or difficult things or to solve problems in new ways

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/

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Are you selling code, people, or

  • ne-throat-to-choke?

Enterprise Software

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Product Management

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Minimum Viable Product ?

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Product Owner ?

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Technologists ARE part of the business

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Take responsibility for ROI

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Agile Methods

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Water-scrum-fall

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What really matters?

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Need to focus on learning, feedback cycles, and outcomes

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There is an uncomfortable truth…

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Bug Triage

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tri•age

noun \ trē-ˈäzh, ˈtrē-ˌ\ : the sorting of and allocation of treatment to patients and especially battle and disaster victims according to a system of priorities designed to maximize the number of survivors.

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/

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“Worse is Better...”

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Really???

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“The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of a low price is faded from memory.”

  • Aldo Gucci 1938
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Shared Mutable State

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Shared Mutable State... the most feared words in computing

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…if not they should be!

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Shared Mutable State should only be used for systems programming

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Embrace append-only, single writer, and shared nothing designs

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If you don’t... math will hunt you down and there is nowhere to hide!

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Universal Scalability Law

2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024

Speedup Processors

Amdahl USL

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Text Encoding

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But it’s human readable...

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Binary is hard to work with...

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Big Data

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Communications Battery life and bandwidth?

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Synchronous Comms

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Bad things will happen!!!

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Synchronous Communication is the crystal meth of distributed programming

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Causes a coupling in location and time

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Errors need to be first class messages

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Full-duplex vs Half-duplex

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Are your micro services

  • n crystal meth?
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Abstraction

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“All non-trivial abstractions, to some extent, are leaky.”

  • Joel Spolsky
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“The detail of underlying complexity cannot be ignored.”

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“the purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which

  • ne can be absolutely precise”
  • Dijkstra
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We could say the main issue is that people don’t understand abstractions...but...

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Sins committed in the name of Abstraction

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ORMs !!!

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Functional Programming

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What is the biggest issue with functional programming?

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Functional Programmers

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Functional programming is

NOT

the answer to multi-core

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Software Transactional Memory was a failed experiment!

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No Mechanical Sympathy?

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“...software is not constrained by the physical world... don’t be a douche”

  • FP Fanboi
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However there is genuine brilliance in functional programming

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Collaborate and great things can happen...

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Cloud Computing

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Why has cloud computing taken off?

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BOFH

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Business Prevention Office

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Opportunity Cost!!!

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“Optimise for speed of delivery and you will deliver so fast you reduce costs”

  • Adrian Cockcroft
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Virtualization

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Jigsaw

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Throw hardware at it… development is too expensive

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The free lunch is over…we cannot be sloppy anymore…

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L0 1534 µops LB 28 µops

Loops

LB 28 µops

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Code must be simple and composable

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Cache Sub-System

L1(D) - 32K L2 - 256K L3 – 8-20MB LF/WC Buffers L1(I) – 32K L0(I) – 1.5k µops

32 Bytes / cycle

System Agent TLB Pre-fetchers TLB Pre-fetchers

128 bits / cycle

MOB Memory Controller QPI

QPI Bus Memory Channels 16 Bytes / cycle Ring Bus

PCI-e Controller

32 Bytes / cycle 32 Bytes / cycle

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Patterns of access and locality are key to performance

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Accumulated Improvement Time Bandwidth Latency

Memory Sub-System Performance

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What does this mean for software?

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Diversity

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Testosterone Driven Development

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What did the Carnegie Mellon studies show?

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“As soon as you realise that most people don’t know what they are doing the world makes a lot more sense…”

– Farley’s second law

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We need to look seriously at training programmers

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Coaching and Apprenticeships

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“The most important thing I've accomplished, other than building the compiler, is training young people.”

  • Grace Hopper
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“'Do you think we can do this?' I say, ‘Try it.’ And I back 'em up. They need that. I keep track of them as they get older and I stir 'em up at intervals so they don't forget to take chances.

  • Grace Hopper
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In closing…

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What are the greatest achievements

  • f the human race?
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The Scientific Method

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Understanding of Evolution

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Don’t feel bad… We are living in the era of Software Alchemy

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Questions?

@mjpt777 – Martin Thompson @toddlmontgomery – Todd Montgomery

“It does not matter how intelligent you are, if you guess and that guess cannot be backed up by experimental evidence – then it is still a guess.”

  • Richard Feynman