DevOps in the Enterprise: Whiteboard Session at National Instruments (Video)

I was recently in Austin, Texas and had a chance to visit National Instruments and talk DevOps.

National Instruments is a rare case study. While it's common to hear DevOps stories coming from web startups, National Instruments definitely falls into the category of a traditional legacy enterprise. 

After meeting the larger team, I settled into a conference room with Ernest Mueller and Peco Karayanev to get a deeper dive into both their DevOps and multi-vendor Cloud initiatives. Below is the video from that session.

0:00 - Intro
Topics include:

• How Ernest, Peco, and National Instruments got from traditional legacy IT operations thinking to DevOps thinking
• Scaling a single web app in a startup vs. managing the "long tail of long tails" in a heterogeneous enterprise environment
• Challenge of moving developers from a desktop software mindset to developing for the cloud

10:37 - Whiteboard
Topics include:

• "Sharing is the Devil"... Managing complexity through isolation by design
• Overview of NI cloud architecture
• "Operations as a Service"
• Model-driven provisioning
• Building cloud apps that span multiple clouds (Azure and AWS)
• Working with deployment tools (and enabling developer self-service/maintenance)
• Tools the team is publishing as open source projects (Only the second time that National Instruments has released something under an open source license)