[User-committee] [app] application developer research needs

Matt Jarvis matt.jarvis at datacentred.co.uk
Sat May 28 08:35:02 UTC 2016


Serverless is currently primarily Lamba on AWS, although IBM have released
OpenWhisk under apache license. Its basically an event driven programming
model, without visible infrastructure.
On 27 May 2016 22:52, "David F Flanders" <flanders at openstack.org> wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> Say more re serverless model: as in horizontal scaling and/or 12x Factor,
> or is this some of the newer container architectures in which you speak?
>
> Also agreed re knowing more about with which open source cloud frameworks
> developers are going to have a play, e.g. what is the new open cloud lamp
> stack?  Something I can easily just start loading into my command line and
> having a play with as a cloud application developer...
>
> sudo apt-get install ORKA
> ... do you want to install API resources cli toolkits for:
> OpenStack
> Rocket
> Kubernetes
> Android
> y/n
>
> ^^soz, for dramatic LAMP metaphor purposes only ;)
>
> All great discussions btw, thanks for driving this conversation forward
> Piet 🙆
>
> Best, Flanders
> On 26 May 2016 10:40 AM, "Matt Jarvis" <matt.jarvis at datacentred.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Piet
>>
>> Are we interested in the serverless model and how that might apply to
>> OpenStack now or in the future as an application platform ? I'd be
>> interested to see if there was appetite from developers targeting open
>> cloud frameworks for that kind of stuff, although that may be out of scope
>> for what we're trying to do with this research.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On 26 May 2016 at 17:46, Kruithof Jr, Pieter <
>> pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Anne,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback.  It occurred to me that based on the questions
>>> that need to be answered, we may pivot to a series of interviews rather
>>> than a survey.  Or possibly conduct a series of interviews and create a
>>> survey based on the feedback.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>>> Piet
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Anne Gentle <annegentle at justwriteclick.com>
>>> Date: Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 10:28 AM
>>> To: Pieter Kruithof <pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com>
>>> Cc: "user-committee at lists.openstack.org" <
>>> user-committee at lists.openstack.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [User-committee] [app] application developer research needs
>>>
>>> Thanks Pieter --
>>> I've added a lot of questions to the etherpad. I hope that collaborative
>>> editing was your intent. :)
>>>
>>> I've taken a few of these style of developer surveys since attending
>>> Google I/O last year and also signing up to play with some IoT-type
>>> platforms, so I incorporated some of my learnings from those surveys.
>>>
>>> Based on what I've seen, I'd highly encourage a three-to-four page
>>> survey with about five questions per page.
>>>
>>> Also, connection to other app devs or travel and feature-promoting
>>> enticements could be just as valuable as "prizes" as those we want to reach
>>> are often highly-compensated earners. Devs will answer surveys if they
>>> think it'll change the platform, but might not bite for other reasons.
>>> Let's ensure the questions appear actionable.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Anne
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Kruithof Jr, Pieter <
>>> pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>> We’re going down the path of conducting a user study to collect deeper
>>>> information on application developers.  This study would be in addition to
>>>> the data collected from the foundation’s semi annual survey.
>>>>
>>>> At this point, we’re going down the path of identifying questions that
>>>> would provide a deeper understanding of your users to help drive product
>>>> direction.  If there is any specific data you would like to collect from
>>>> application developers, please add them to the study etherpad:
>>>>
>>>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/newton-osux-appsurvey
>>>>
>>>> Also, we haven’t landed on a research methodology such as usability
>>>> testing, interviews, etc.  It just depends on the data we need from users.
>>>> Lemme know if this makes sense.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, should I be sending this to the dev distribution list?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Piet
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Piet Kruithof
>>>> Sr User Experience Architect, Intel OTC
>>>> PTL, OpenStack UX Project
>>>>
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>>>
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