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
3. CTO of
4. Chief Taco Officer CTO of
5. www.paperlesspost.com
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
10. ALMOST 60, crazy, wonderful people
11. Ain’t Easy Growing a rails app
12. Also not easy Growing a Team
13. Each one, Teach one MENTORING AS A WAY OF LIFE
14. When I Ship, You Ship, We Ship pushing for a culture of shipping
15. Rules to ship by
16. We all live with the choices we all make Fixing > Complaining
17. Roadies > Rock stars helping > winning
18. Push for a balance of quality and quantity working > perfect
19. Win in pieces, not all at once small changes > big refactors
20. What does this mean in practicE?
21. Including Rails, Ruby, Chef Maintain over 40 forks
22. Even if they don’t hit the button, everyone is a part of it Everyone deploys
24. Numbers for everything we can number Metric obsessed
26. While keeping our main focus grounded in the things we know and care about (Ruby, JS, PGSql) An ever evolving stack
28. Refuse to replace our stack whole hog, Lets make it the best it can be The future = Polishing + simplification
29. github.com/quirkey twitter.com/aq quirkey.com paperlesspost.com THANKS!