2025-02-04, 14:50–15:40, D.Aud (Main)
We're nearly two decades into cloud. Where have all the apps gone? You'd think it'd be simple to answer that question: probably all in the cloud, right? It turns out the answer is elusive. I've tried for years! It could be as much as 70%, or as low as 30%. Maybe. Those numbers could be hokum. These are apps you manage and write, you should know where they tend to live. This talk will go over my latest investigations into this mystery with no goal other than gather up the clues and wire them up with red crazy board string. I'll then speculate how that newly updated crazy board can drive how you think about what about it, if anything.
I'll pull together recent research, analysis, surveys, and all that to try to answer the quandary. An audience survey would be fun too.
Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. His daily-ish newsletter is at newsletter.cote.io.