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
   

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2. Developers hit walls.
   exception
   missing doc
   out of date
   unsupported
   bad use case
   

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3. Developers need to
   start conversations.
   

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4. Conversations at scale?
   Build a community.
   

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5. The owner-occupied
   community forum.
   

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6. https://discourse.algolia.com/
   512 topics 3,510+ posts
   Algolia Discourse activity as of June 2017
   

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7. Don’t make
   your forum an island
   

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8. Algolia Community Tech Stack
   

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10. vue-keen-dashboards
    https://github.com/algolia/vue-keen-dashboards
    A secure, extensible dashboard for
    your Keen IO data built with Vue.js
    

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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
    

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12. We’re hiring!
    Algolia Series B
    Cheese Plate
    algolia.com/careers
    

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13. Thank you!
    Questions? — josh@algolia.com
    

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