Scaling community by webhooking the things

Don't make your forum an island. This lightning-length presentation provides a look at the Algolia community tech stack and then two new open source projects spun out of building it.

Presented at Open Source Show & Tell 2017.

Transcript

1. Josh Dzielak Scaling community by webhooking the things Developer Advocate, Algolia Open Source Show & Tell · June 9, 2017 · San Francisco @dzello dzello
2. Developers hit walls. exception missing doc out of date unsupported bad use case
3. Developers need to start conversations.
4. Conversations at scale? Build a community.
5. The owner-occupied community forum.
6. https://discourse.algolia.com/ 512 topics 3,510+ posts Algolia Discourse activity as of June 2017
7. Don’t make your forum an island
8. Algolia Community Tech Stack
10. vue-keen-dashboards https://github.com/algolia/vue-keen-dashboards A secure, extensible dashboard for your Keen IO data built with Vue.js
11. https://github.com/algolia/discourse-webhook-collector A set of webhooks for consuming activity from Discourse discourse-webhook-collector and doing all the things with it
12. We’re hiring! Algolia Series B Cheese Plate algolia.com/careers
13. Thank you! Questions? — josh@algolia.com