Tech at Tictail

A lightweight presentation on how Tictail builds product.

Transcript

2. @alexismic http://alexmic.net
3. “Tictail is the Tumblr of e-commerce” – Wired Magazine
4. 30,000 online stores Growth
5. We are a small team. Things work for us now, but time will tell as we grow.
6. git git clone git@github.com:tictail/api-explorer
7. python import antigravity
8. AWS aws ec2 start-instances
9. So, how do we work now?
10. XP Scrum Agile Pairing Kanban Whatever.
11. Always develop in production mirror. Consistency. Repeatability. Repeatability .
13. Branching model. Keep it simple, stupid. Plus, “if in doubt, branch”.
14. production master branch
15. Master is always deployable. No need to say the same for production…
17. We like pull requests. Each branch ends (or starts) with a pull request.
19. Progress
20. Progress Discussion
21. Progress Discussion Code review
22. Progress Discussion Tests Code review
23. Progress Discussion Tests Code review Knowledge Sharing
24. Culture of trust. If one person thinks it’s good, ship!
25. GitHub issues are great. We use them for bugs and feature tracking. With labels. And colours.
27. Integrate all the things, bro.
28. for each push do: build() test() notify() profit?()
29. build(); test()
30. notify() Hipchat Email Desk lamps
31. Deployment.
32. Release cycles are slow. Iterate, validate, polish (or scrap). We deploy many times a day.
33. $ penguin-c4 deploy! Deploying… No downtime deployment. Unless we break things… :-)
34. Communication is key.
35. Hipchat We chat… a lot.
36. Email We email… a lot. echo Feature announcements, office gossip. tech Discussions, link sharing, quick decisions.
37. Project Sync Every Monday, each team gives a summary of what they’ve done and what they plan to do.
38. Bi-weekly. We discuss what we’ve done well, and what we can do even better. Retrospectives
39. Simple. Consistency. Trust. Notifications. Testing. Simple. Communication. Trust. WIPs. Pull Requests. Issues. Trust. Testing. Automate. Branching. Testing. Simplicity. Git. Communication. Cloud. Notifications. Python. Hipchat. Emails. No downtime. Git. Retrospectives. Code Reviews. Ideas. WIPs. Share. Discussion. Integration. Git. Build. Notifications. Email. Retrospectives. AWS. Deployment. Growth. Commits. Git. Cloud. Communication. Code Reviews. Vagrant. Pull Requests. Infrastructure. Workflow. RECAP
40. By the way, we’re hiring. Thanks!