DevStackup

Presented about the company and dev team culture of Paperless Post at DevStackup. Awesome graphics by Cat Chi and Jason Wong.

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2. It’s me, @AQ
   HeYO
   

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3. CTO of
   

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4. Chief Taco Officer
   CTO of
   

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5. www.paperlesspost.com
   

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6. • Unique animated gifs posted in Campfire: 3,208
   • Unique metrics stored in Graphite: ~250,000
   • Most individual user-generated cards sent in a single week: ~2
   million
   • Registered user growth over December 2011: 211% (3.1x)
   • Revenue growth over December 2011: 135% (2.3x)
   • Number of commits to main app git repo: 44,545
   • Number of commits to chef git repo: 4,447
   • Peak traffic served: ~300 Mbps
   • Number of production deploys across applications: 1,631
   • Number of staging deploys across applications: 10,600
   December 2012
   

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10. ALMOST 60, crazy,
    wonderful people
    

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11. Ain’t Easy
    Growing a rails app
    

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12. Also not easy
    Growing a Team
    

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13. Each one, Teach one
    MENTORING AS
    A WAY OF LIFE
    

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14. When I Ship, You Ship, We Ship
    pushing for a
    culture of shipping
    

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15. Rules to ship by
    

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16. We all live with the choices we all make
    Fixing > Complaining
    

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17. Roadies > Rock stars
    helping > winning
    

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18. Push for a balance of quality and quantity
    working > perfect
    

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19. Win in pieces, not all at once
    small changes > big refactors
    

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20. What does this mean
    in practicE?
    

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21. Including Rails, Ruby, Chef
    Maintain over 40 forks
    

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22. Even if they don’t hit the button,
    everyone is a part of it
    Everyone deploys
    

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24. Numbers for everything we can number
    Metric obsessed
    

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26. While keeping our main focus grounded in
    the things we know and care about (Ruby,
    JS, PGSql)
    An ever evolving stack
    

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28. Refuse to replace our stack whole hog,
    Lets make it the best it can be
    The future =
    Polishing +
    simplification
    

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29. github.com/quirkey
    twitter.com/aq
    quirkey.com
    paperlesspost.com
    THANKS!
    

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