The software developer community is evolving rapidly in keeping with the frenetic pace of change within the enterprise information technology industry itself. For some attendees at this week’s DevNet Create gathering, what a difference a year makes.

“Last year people were talking about doing collaboration applications in a new way,” said Paul Giblin (pictured), enterprise architect and distinguished engineer at Presidio Inc. “This year people are talking about blockchain. They’re talking about multicloud. They’re talking about machine learning. When you look at some of the cool stuff that’s out there that can be shared, like the Meraki demo for augmented reality, looking at access points, that’s just phenomenal capability that brings great benefit to a lot of different people.”

Giblin spoke with John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the DevNet Create event in Mountain View, California. They discussed the range of needs that Presidio sees among its clients and how it is making some of its intellectual property available to other developers (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

Struggling with cloud decisions

Presidio assists clients in harnessing tech innovation while simplifying complexity, a challenging task given the growth of on-premises, public cloud and hybrid infrastructures that comprise much of modern IT.

“People are struggling with decisions around what cloud to put workloads in,” Giblin said. “You’ve got some folks who are right at home doing a 12-factor app and going full-on cloud native and putting stuff all out on Amazon and not thinking twice about it. And then you’ve got a lot of organizations who maybe don’t have mature development shops and have a lot of legacy infrastructure — folks who still need to retool.”

This divergence in both understanding and experience has led Presidio to embrace the developer community ethos and make portions of its own programming available for common use.

“We are maintaining our own internal code repositories where anybody who wants to can take a look at some of the intellectual property we’re developing, pull that asset, communicate with the person who’s working on it, manipulate it, and put it back,” Giblin said. “We know that the next generation of engineers needs to understand, on some level, programmability concepts, and this is a great way to ingest that.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the DevNet Create event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the DevNet Create event. Neither Cisco Systems Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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