Microsoft
settled on a veteran insider as its replacement for long-time CEO
Steve Ballmer on Tuesday, ending a five-month search with a choice some
analysts called a “safe pick” for the software behemoth.
India-born Satya Nadella, 46, head of the company's cloud computing
division and enterprise business, was appointed after a team of
headhunters concluded a five-month search that included some of the most
world’s most famous executives.
Nadella is only the third person
to lead Microsoft; since the company was founded 39 years ago, only
co-founder Bill Gates and Ballmer have headed it. But in recent years
the company has looked flat-footed as rivals Apple, Google and Facebook
have dominated and innovated in hardware, online services and social
media.
In a nod to Nadella's low profile outside the company, Microsoft introduced him with a sleek web page that was heavy on biographical details including the revelation that he relaxes by reading poetry.
Ballmer
said he would step down last August amid mounting criticism of the
company’s dependence on its Windows, Microsoft Office and workplace
software, products that have generated massive profits for the company
for decades but are being increasingly challenged by online
alternatives. In a statement, Ballmer said Nadella was “the right leader
at the right time” for Microsoft.
Some were less sure. In a
note to investors, analysts at FBR Capital Markets said the appointment
of Nadella was a "safe pick" compared to choosing an outsider. Microsoft
was among the first to innovate in areas like smartphones, tablets and
cloud services. But it has seen those ideas better executed by rivals
including Apple and Amazon, the note said.
As part of the
announcement, Gates said he would step down as chairman to assume a new
role on the board as founder and technology adviser. John Thompson, the
Microsoft board member who oversaw its search for a new chief executive,
becomes chairman. “During this time of transformation, there is no
better person to lead Microsoft than Satya Nadella,” Gates said..
“Satya
is a proven leader with hardcore engineering skills, business vision
and the ability to bring people together. His vision for how technology
will be used and experienced around the world is exactly what Microsoft
needs as the company enters its next chapter of expanded product
innovation and growth,” Gates said in his statement.
Nadella may
be little known outside of Microsoft’s sprawling Redmond campus, but
inside it he is a star. Before being named as CEO he ran one of
Microsoft's fastest growing divisions, cloud services. Revenue at the
division soared 107% compared to a year ago, the company said when it
reported its fiscal second-quarter results on 23 January. Most of his
experience is in serving corporate customers – the source of two-thirds
of Microsoft profits.
He has also been unafraid to speak his mind on sensitive issues. In December, speaking at the Le Web
conference in Paris, Nadella addressed the revelations of the NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden, saying they demonstrated that “the
surveillance system has to be reformed”.
"Businesses and users are
going to use technology only if they can trust it," said Nadella.
"Clearly now it's the responsibility, I think, of governments – the US
government included – to restore that trust. The only mechanisms that I
think we have learned is that the respect for the liberties of people
and the rule of law is the one way to have societies thrive."
Microsoft's
decision to retain Gates worried some observers. Sydney Finkelstein, a
leadership professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, said there
were huge challenges ahead for Nadella. Finkelstein said making changes
within a company as large as Microsoft was difficult for any CEO, and
more so when the senior figures being replaced were, as in the case of
Gates, still playing a part.
“The next CEO needs to instil a
level of risk-taking and innovation,” said Finkelstein. He pointed to
examples of insiders shaking up big companies after the resignation of a
famous CEO – Bob Iger, for example, took over at Disney after Hollywood
legend Michael Eisner was forced out amid criticism that the the media
firm was losing its way to younger rivals. Iger went on to revitalise
Disney, buying Pixar and Marvel.
“But that’s much harder to do if the people who used to run it are still breathing over your shoulder,” said Finkelstein.
Finkelstein
also noted that before Nadella’s appointment, the top job at Microsoft
had been linked to a number of leading executives outside the company,
including Ford CEO Alan Mulally. “The fact that he is relatively unknown
outside Microsoft is interesting, especially in the light of the big
names that were associated with the job. It makes you wonder if he was
the first choice,” Finkelstein said.
James Staten, an analyst with
Forrester Research, was more positive. "Satya Nadella is a tough,
number-driven leader. [His appointment] will be a great thing for the
overall direction of the company," Staten said.
"Nadella is a
visionary, is making it happen, and knows what it takes to drive change
in the unique Microsoft culture. An outsider would have a hard time
accomplishing this coming in fresh. And time is of the essence."
In a statement about his hiring, Nadella called Microsoft “one of
those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through
technology,” and said, “I couldn’t be more honoured to have been chosen
to lead the company.
"The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast,
but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to
transform. A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring
innovative products to our customers more quickly.”
Nadella joined
the company in 1992 and as well as heading cloud services, he also held
leadership roles in server software, internet search and business
applications. Born in Hyderabad, he holds a master's degree in computer
science from the University of Wisconsin, and a master's in business
administration from the University of Chicago.
Married for 22
years and with three children, he counts cricket and poetry among his
hobbies. In an email to Microsoft employees on Tuesday morning, he wrote
that he is “defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning.”
On the web page constructed for his announcement, Microsoft said:
Microsoft’s
new CEO finds relaxation by reading poetry, in all forms and by poets
who are both Indian and American. “It’s like code,” he says. “You’re
trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences
and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry
and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression.” Indeed, he
says, the best code is poetry.
In
a video interview, Nadella said he was “honoured, humbled, excited,” by
his appointment. “We have tremendous opportunity and that’s exciting.
And I’m also grounded on our challenges. In fact that is the adventure
and the constraint that also creates, I think, the competitive zeal in
me to be able to do great work,” he said.
Businesses today are increasingly being evaluated
on both their customer service levels and response times, as well as
what they sell. With people accessing cloud services from portable
devices that are connected to both the network and the services they
want, how can a business ensure its services are “always there” and
available to customers?
Availability is a critical element to conducting business, even if
it’s not direct to the end user; think Twitter or Facebook. If either
platform goes down it might be irritating to regular users who can’t get
access, but it is catastrophic for the companies. Who can sell
advertising when the space they’re selling isn’t being seen by anyone? High profile IT outages in recent media reports
have demonstrated the damage to financial, reputational and customer
service goals that can be sustained following a period of downtime.
Businesses need to capitalise on the options available to them to offer
the benefits of cloud computing without the risks.
While security concerns have historically inhibited organisations
from moving to the cloud, availability is fast becoming a bigger concern
overshadowing the improved agility and economics that come with using a
cloud infrastructure. To keep cloud applications up and running, they
need to be designed to work around potential failures. For existing
applications, that means rewriting code to make them “cloud-ready”.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. Software defined availability is
what we’re calling a software layer that makes decisions about where an
application should run. It provides the right level of availability at
the right time, per workload, and helps companies take advantage of the
elastic nature of cloud.
While not everyone is ready or will even consider switching to a cloud
environment, organisations that do need to make sure that their
availability solution provides the real uptime, speed and ease of
deployment to make this transition as smooth as possible. Doing this
with a solution that is software-defined will bypass these barriers.
Dave LeClair is senior director of strategy and product
management at Stratus Technologies, who are preparing for the
"always-on" world by pioneering a generation of high-availability
private clouds. Stay tuned with ITProPortal in the coming weeks for more insights into the future of cloud with a video series by Dave LeClair.
HP Discover Barcelona
has become one of the must-attend enterprise conferences of 2013,
featuring hundreds of sessions covering the hottest topics in the IT
industry today – big data, converged cloud, mobility, security, risk
management and more.
With 10,000 attendees pouring into the Fira de Barcelona Conference
Centre in Grand Via (the second largest conference centre in Europe),
over 75 sponsors, 35 industry analysts and 500 sessions taking place
over two-and-a-half days, this is definitely not one to miss.
As the hosts put it:
"HP Discover is your best opportunity in 2013 to learn how to put HP
innovation to work for you. More than 7,000 IT executives, managers,
architects, engineers, and solution experts from around the world will
gather at HP Discover to explore technology developments, strategies,
and best practices. Featuring hundreds of business and technical
sessions, HP Discover will equip your organization to convert data into
value, technology into solutions, and ideas into economic and social
impact."
Be sure to check out the official agenda, as well as the full session and demo catalogue, available on the HP website.
To keep you up to date with the action, ITProPortal is bringing you
live commentary, photos and analysis from Barcelona, as well as all the
breaking news as it lands, so stick around.
10 December
18:35
Stay tuned for tomorrow, as we've been told that there are some exciting developments in everyone's favourite: the cloud!
18:33
We started the day with a bang, and we
ended it with one - as a HP executive threw the new EliteBook onto the
floor to demonstrate its toughness. We didn't actually get to see them
turn it on afterwards, and it's not like HP can't afford to just break
one... but it got everyone's attention nonetheless.
18:32
Ooh, shiny!
17:23
If this BIOS is attacked by malware, it repairs itself!
17:23
BREAKING: HP self-healing BIOS announced.
"We believe that no other competitor can achieve this, as it's
hard-wired into the hardware."
17:21
BREAKING: HP Business Desktop MIni
released. All the power of a desktop in a processor that fits into the
palm of your hand. Looks pretty impressive.
17:19
BREAKING: HP Spectre 13 Pro laptop also announced. 13.3in screen. Slim and powerful, apparently.
17:18
BREAKING: HP EliteBook Folio 1040
announced. 15mm thin, built to withstand extreme shock, and tested to
military standards of toughness.
14:40
If you think the announcements are over, I
have it on good authority that they are not! Apparently there are a
whole slew of new products being announced tomorrow. You crazy, HP!
And don't forget to check out our interview with Tom Joyce, senior
vice president of HP Converged Systems, where we talk to Tom about HP's
advancements in converged systems, and what that could mean for
enterprise and small businesses.
14:11
So what do the new Converged Systems and Converged Storage releases mean for business? Find out here.
14:10
Absolutely cracking keynote by Meg Whitman. Stick around for more updates as they come in.
14:09
14:06
If you remember nothing else from
Discover, remember this: "We are here to be the best technology company
ever. So challenge us. bring us your goals, bring us your unsolvable
problems. Let's build a better enterprise together."
14:05
Whitman: "We know you're being drawing
into disciplines that you're not familiar with. You're experiencing
increasing pressure, too: time pressure, cost pressure, pressure to get
things to work. But HP is there with you. Consider us as an asset in
your organisation. We're happiest when you look like superman."
14:04
You ever think: "I can't wait for the dawning golden age of IT, but right now I just want my Wi-Fi to work"?
That's me right now.
14:03
John Herbert, CIO of 2oth Century Fox joins Whitman on the stage.
"What an incredible company," Whitman tells him. "What a legacy."
Something tells me we're not meant to confine that verdict to 20th Century Fox?
14:03
Weird and pointless montage of 20th
Century Fox movies, from the Sound of Music to James Bond to Avatar.
What are you claiming credit for, HP? Did they shoot Indiana Jones in
the converged cloud?
14:02
This is the infrastructure of HP, which
they think gives them the best vantage point to help you with yours.
Look familiar to anyone?
14:00
Hinshaw: "Our IT team was so astonished
when we brought out moonshot, the 95 per ent reduction in space that it
required that they actually come to me and said, 'we think we can go
down from 6 to 4 data centres.' And certainly, we will never build
another data centre again. That's the power of Moonshot."
14:00
Now a talk from John Hinshaw is Executive Vice President of Technology & Operations at Hewlett-Packard.
13:59
Whitman: "Photonics uses photons in light
instead of electrons in copper wire. We have a solid road map to get 6TB
per second over photonic networks. In that architecture, you can
transfer 4 days of digital video in 1 second."
13:58
"90 per cent of the energy used in
computing is used moving data from the processor to storage and back
again. We are quickly reaching the limits of what this architecture is
capable of handling. We need a new architecture for the digital age."
13:56
Whitman: "We have the cloud that companies can rely on. no other
company has the sinews, no toher company has the experience in hardware,
software and services. We make it, we back it, we service it."
13:25
Whitman: "If the cloud were an independent
country, it would be number 5 in the worldwide ranking of energy
consumption. That's after, the US, Russia, China and India. Japan is
number 6. To put it another way, the cloud uses five times the amount of
energy as Spain. This is simply not sustainable. We have to make better
use of the electricity we've got."
Crazy!
13:25
"You might not be used to the view from
the bridge - but there is a storm coming. IT managers are being thrust
into new areas of expertise, and new areas of technology that weren't
part of the job description 10, 5, or even 2 years ago. But HP is here
to help. You know this reality better than anyone else, because you live
it every day."
13:20
Whitman: "IT is no longer just about
keeping the computers running. It can make the difference between
whether your company will sink or swim in the world of business."
13:20
"IT is now more important than ever.
You're no longer down in the engine room - you're up on the bridge with
the captain, scanning the horizon."
If there's one thing that's sure to get applause at a tech conference, it's Star Trek analogies.
13:20
"We believe we're at the next big shift in
technology. We're ahead of the big shift in IT, because we know that
it's really a shift in business. These shifts happen once every 5-10
years. I witnessed one of those shifts very clearly when I was at eBay.
And when they happen, they change everything."
13:19
13:18
Whitman: "What else do you want in a
partner? You want someone who's here today, but is also going to be here
tomorrow. And let me tell you - Hewlett Packard is here to stay."
There's a steady gathering of applause.
13:17
Whitman: "We're helping you make sense of
the IT world of today, and we're helping to build the IT world of
tomorrow - because we know most of you have one foot in both."
13:17
Whitman: "I've come to Barcelona to show
you how HP is helping its customers. I've personally met with over a
thousand customers around the world, and everywhere I go, I heard one
message - you want HP to win. You want us to continue to bring you
solutions that help save your problems."
13:08
HP CEO Meg Whitman on the stage!
13:08
Packed hall!
13:06
"We're creating a Mount Everest of new data every day."
Is that the new way of measuring data?
13:03
Attendants zipping down the aisles on electric unicycles. A conference full of surreal moments...
13:01
Meg Whitman's keynote is about to start!
12:22
Had some great conversations today, with
Jonathan Dove of HP Enterprise services, about the Earth Insights
project, as well as Chris Selland, vice president of Vertica, about big
data. Stay posted for those interviews!
09:21
BREAKING: HP announce HP Earth Insights, a
collaboration with Conservation International to create an "early
warning system" for species extinction. Could big data analytics save
the world?
08:54
The laid-off workers are handing out
leaflets outside, accusing HP management of "compromising the quality of
HP products and technicians" by promoting a policy of staff reductions.
08:52
Today's proceedings started with a bang,
as groups of protesters gathered outside the Fira de Barcelona centre,
letting off fire crackers, chanting, waving flags and playing what at
least sounded like communist workers' tunes over a crackly tannoy.
They're protesting against recent massive layoffs by HP, in which 28,000 workers have been cut from the workforce since 2012.
08:44
And we're back, for day 2 of HP Discover in Barcelona.
16:36
Just spoke to Tom Joyce about big data, SMBs and what the future holds for Converged Systems. Stick around for a full interview!
15:48
Stay posted for a press briefing with Tom Joyce himself, Senior Vice President and GM, Converged Systems.
15:48
Phew, a crazy hour and a half! Now we break out into talks.
15:48
Scott: "we have extensive abilities to encrypt data at rest, and that's an increasing demand of our clients."
15:48
Now for a quick Q&A.
Joyce: "best of breed is different from market-leading. Leading the
market is a heritage from what you did in the past, but best of breed is
having the greatest capacity right now. "
15:47
HINT: Major announcement hinted around flexible capacity service!
15:47
BREAKING: HP StoreAll Archive released!
15:47
How often have you heard these, eh?
15:46
"StoreOnce Backup reduced our storage
administration costs by 50% and backup window by 70%, so we could
maintain around-the clock operation" - Thomas Poulsen CIO of EETIF
15:46
BREAKING: HP announces HP StoreOnce Backup Family.
15:46
Pronounce your T's man! Were you brought up by wolves?
15:45
"If a customer lost 600TB of data with our
competitors, the recovery time is up to 80 hours. That could cost you
your entire business."
15:45
"Over 90 per cent of all data ever collected by private companies was collected over the last two years."
Also: the value of time for an average enterprise is around 250,000 Euros an hour. Crazy!
15:45
Scott: "Changing nothing risks everything."
15:45
15:44
Scott: "it's been a bad day for EMC and Cisco, and I'm about to make it a lot worse."
15:44
Now on to David Scott, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Converged Systems.
15:44
Joyce: "We're one company. We're HP. We
have control over our whole production line. We can do this project at
about 25 per cent lower than our competitors. And we have a much lower
cost per VM."
15:44
"Their utility payment model allows users to add scale and when it's needed."
15:43
Joyce: "These converged systems can work about twice as fast as their competitors, while costing up to a quarter less."
15:43
More rolling supercomputers.
15:43
HP Converged Systems 700 and HP Converged Systems 300 announced - exciting times!
15:43
Surreal moment as the new converged
systems supercomputer edges out from behind a curtain with the
two-strings Jaws theme playing.
Joyce: "I don't know if you hear that, but if I was VCE I'd get out of the water."
15:43
"Sharks are designed to complete their mission."
15:42
15:42
HP reveals that it has been working on a super-secretive "project shark". Gummy sharks explained!
15:40
"Setup mistakes are what happen when too
many people are touching a project and adding customisations. Customers
want to move past complex and custom and into standard and simple"
"Customers want a truly simple virtualization machine."
15:40
15:38
Joyce: "We've shipped more infrastructure
for virtual machines than any other companies in the history of IT. We
know what we're doing."
15:38
Now Tom Joyce is coming on to speak to us, the Senior Vice President and GM, Converged Systems at Hewlett-Packard!
15:38
"By our DNA, we are a partnering organisation. We work together with our partners to deliver great solutions for our customers."
15:38
"We have a comprehensive set of services - more comprehensive than any other vendor in the marketplace."
Is that true?
15:37
15:36
"It's not just about better software and
better hardware, it's about getting those services out there. It's about
providing 24/7/365 pro-active support with our services."
15:35
"The converged cloud is not simply a private cloud. It's inside the firewall as well as outside the firewall."
"Our partners tell us 'you've got the best services, you've got the
best services', but we want to see those brought into an integrated
service."
14:45
"We have a dream of converged infrastructure that is not just isolated, brittle silos of infrastructure."
14:38
"Solutions aren't just about a software or hardware packages, or a services infrastructure. Solutions are about all three."
14:16
HP: "We're asking the big questions - what if? and what now?"
14:12
Pity about all the popcorn rustling.
14:11
Very Apple-ish opening video.
14:11
Very Apple-ish opening video.
14:10
Popcorn and gummy-sharks? HP saying "sit back and enjoy the ride". And also aren't sharks cool?
13:55
In little over an hour, we'l be hearing firsthand about all the breaking news to come out of HP Converged Systems.
13:53
While you're waiting for the action to start, why not check out the official agenda, as well as the full session and demo catalogue, available on the HP website.
13:50
From HP:
"HP Discover is your best opportunity in 2013 to learn how to put HP
innovation to work for you. More than 7,000 IT executives, managers,
architects, engineers, and solution experts from around the world will
gather at HP Discover to explore technology developments, strategies,
and best practices. Featuring hundreds of business and technical
sessions, HP Discover will equip your organization to convert data into
value, technology into solutions, and ideas into economic and social
impact."
13:49
Over the next two and a half days, we'll
be bringing you up-to-the-minute coverage of all the breaking HP news
tipped to be released this year, plus photos and a breakdown of what
this means for business, customers and IT managers.
By the looks of it, last year's conference was quite a show!
13:43
13:39
Welcome HP Discover in Fira Barcelona -
the second largest conference centre in Europe. It's like ten aircraft
hangers all in a row - pretty impressive!
Buildpacks son el núcleo de la arquitectura de Cloud Foundry y nos han hecho recientemente importantes mejoras en el Cloud Foundry Java Buildpack . A medida que el desarrollador principal del buildpack, me gustaría darte una idea de los principios de diseño detrás de él, cómo utilizar, configurar y extiendo, y lo que depara el futuro.
Principios de diseño
El objetivo principal de la buildpack Java es ser la forma más fácil de ejecutar una aplicación Java. 1 La palabra más sencilla puede significar muchas cosas, pero para mí significa que un desarrollador puede empujar una solicitud y tener una "simplemente funciona ™ "experiencia. Un desarrollador de aplicaciones no deberían tener que enredar con detalles como la configuración de memoria o la configuración del contenedor de trabajar con un servicio determinado. Gran parte de lo que hace el buildpack está infiriendo estos y otros detalles de forma automática, lo que ahorra tiempo a los desarrolladores y esfuerzo.
Un objetivo secundario de la buildpack Java es para ser fácilmente extensible. No hay manera de que el equipo Foundry Java Experiencia nube puede tener la experiencia o el tiempo para apoyar a todos los contenedores, JRE y la integración de servicios. En su lugar, hemos diseñado el buildpack de tal manera que otros puedan ampliar lo existente e integrar los cambios ascendentes con el mínimo esfuerzo. Este diseño también nos permite integrar las contribuciones de la comunidad (que nos encanta!) de nuevo en la base de código fácilmente.
El otro objetivo secundario del buildpack Java es ser agresivo hasta al día con las actualizaciones de seguridad de forma predeterminada. Muchas de las estrategias de implementación de aplicaciones requieren que los desarrolladores u operadores de aviso de que una revisión de seguridad ha sido puesto en libertad, y luego cambian su aplicación o entorno de ejecución de alguna manera a ser seguro. Los desarrolladores y operadores ya no tienen que preocuparse acerca de esto por las dependencias de infraestructura gestionadas por el buildpack (por ejemplo, Java, Tomcat, Groovy). El buildpack elige la última y más segura versión de dichas dependencias cada vez que una aplicación se empuja. 2 Si usted está preocupado de que este modelo no se ajusta a su aplicación, no se preocupe, que es configurable .
Uso de la Buildpack
A partir de hoy, la Buildpack Java está disponible para cualquier aplicación que se ejecute en el CF Pivotal servicio hospedado. La versión disponible de forma predeterminada será agradable y estable, adquiriendo características a medida que maduran, pero al mismo tiempo estar al día con los lanzamientos de dependencia de la infraestructura. Si usted es el tipo de persona que quiere vivir en el borde, se puede especificar la versión más reciente del buildpack al empujar 3 : cf push --buildpack https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-buildpack
La documentación del buildpack describe qué tipo de aplicaciones se pueden ejecutar. Hoy esa lista se compone de las aplicaciones web (incluyendo Grails), Javamain() aplicaciones, aplicaciones Groovy y Juega Framework para Aplicaciones .
Configuración del Buildpack
En un principio podría entenderse como una sorpresa, pero la recomendación general es que los desarrolladores no deberían configurar el entorno que una aplicación utiliza cuando se ejecuta en Cloud Foundry. Ahora, entiendo que esta es una declaración de miedo para la mayoría de los desarrolladores de Java, pero darle una oportunidad. Hemos puesto mucho esfuerzo en hacer el buildpack "sólo trabajo" 4 . Si la aplicación no funciona fuera de la caja, por favor háganoslo saber y vamos a tratar de mejorar la buildpack para que lo haga.
Si, después de dar la recomendación de no configuración de una oportunidad, usted decide que su aplicación requiere una configuración personalizada, es el momento de caer en el papel de operador. La configuración de la buildpack se gestiona de manera centralizada, y se compone de una colección de archivos YAML correspondientes a los diferentes componentes contenidos en el buildpack. Para cambiar esta configuración, la bifurcación buildpack5 , editar la configuración y el uso del nuevo repositorio al empujar su aplicación 6 . Un tenedor buildpack debe ser visto como la configuración de una clase de aplicaciones en lugar de la configuración para una aplicación particular. Esa clase puede tener sólo una única solicitud en él, pero si usted se encuentra la creación de una serie de horquillas, es prudente dar un paso atrás y volver a evaluar la situación.
Un principio rector del diseño es que un desarrollador puede esperar un impulso a "sólo trabajo", ya que es la responsabilidad del operador para proporcionar una buildpack (predeterminado o personalizado) que asegura que esto es cierto.
Ampliación de la Buildpack
El buildpack se compone de un montón de funciones de coordinación y una colección de contenedores , JRE y marcos . Para agregar a esta colección, basta con crear una nueva clase de Ruby con la funcionalidad deseada y agregarlo a la lista de componentes . Cada tipo de componente ( contenedores , JRE y marcos ) tiene un contrato bien definido, se ejecuta en aislamiento del resto de los componentes, y utiliza un patrón de pizarra para comunicar sus contribuciones.
Otro principio de diseño rector es que la ampliación de la buildpack debe ser un ejercicio aditivo, no un mutative. La principal ventaja de este principio es que los cambios ascendentes se pueden integrar fácilmente en un tenedor porque el punto de conflicto sólo es posible es un archivo YAML simple. Este mismo beneficio entra en juego cuando la comunidad contribuye cambios de nuevo a nosotros.
Echa un vistazo a la colección de tenedores de algunos grandes ejemplos de personas que añaden soporte para Jonas , DropWizard y Karaf . Y, por supuesto, sería negligente si no mencionara la Libertad Buildpack de IBM . Si crea un componente que crees que es útil para otros usuarios de la buildpack, piense enhacernos saber y contribuir de nuevo a la comunidad.
El Futuro
Siguiente en la lista es el apoyo a los contenedores adicionales, y la integración automatizada de los servicios disponibles en el mercado CF Pivotal servicio hospedado. Más allá de que el futuro depende de ti, la demanda del cliente impulsa la lista de características para el buildpack, por lo que se oiga tu voz . También puedes chatear conmigo en la plataforma, la conferencia Foundry Nube , 8 a 9 septiembre, 2013. Allí estaré hablando buildpacks y la experiencia de Java en Cloud Foundry.
Sobre el autor
Ben Hale es un Ingeniero de Software Senior en Pivotal, llevando la experiencia de Java en Cloud Foundry. Él puede ser encontrado en el VCAP-dev grupo ya través de cuestiones abiertas en el java-buildpack proyecto. Él también hablará en laPlataforma y 2GX SpringOne conferencias en septiembre de 2013.
Para ser más precisos, la buildpack tiene como objetivo apoyar cualquier cosa que se ejecutará en la JVM. Esto incluye actualmente Java, Groovy (incluyendo Grails) y Scala (incluido el Marco Play). ↩
El buildpack Actualmente expone información sobre las dependencias de infraestructura que contribuye a la fundición controlador de la nube Cloud. En el futuro ese tipo de información se puede utilizar para notificar a los propietarios de aplicaciones de vulnerabilidades potenciales y tal vez incluso actualizar automáticamente las aplicaciones en ejecución con el fin de mantenerse a salvo. ↩
El --buildpack interruptor también se puede utilizar para empujar una aplicación con la buildpack en cualquier instancia de Cloud Foundry V2, si el buildpack se instala por defecto. ↩
Una de las características que estamos más orgullosos es el trabajo que el buildpack hace que inteligentemente tamaño de las diferentes regiones de memoria de la JRE. ↩
Los desarrolladores que no estén familiarizados con GitHub no se dan cuenta exactamente de lo fácil que se bifurcan es un repositorio. El uso de GitHub tenedor y edición funcionalidad puede crear un tenedor con su configuración personalizada en tan sólo dos clics! ↩
El URI del buildpack para ser utilizado cuando se empuja una aplicación se almacenan en el servidor de Cloud Foundry para que usted no tiene que especificar que cada vez que se presiona. Además, si mantiene unmanifest.yml archivo de control de código fuente, se puede especificar el buildpack allí, así que no tiene que ser declarado en la línea de comandos. ↩
