Building an army of robots

There's nothing quite like writing code to automate a task. It's like bottled satisfaction for coders. With that in mind, I want to introduce you to GitHub's army of robots. Robots to test our code and deploy. Robots to open doors. Robots to play our music. Robots to record videos of presenters. Robots to serve us beer.

Robots improve quality of life. Robots remove the separation between programmers and designers. They replace managers and large QA departments. They ensure GitHub continues to be a company full of hackers.

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1. Building an army of robots
2. I’m Kyle Neath On the interwebs @kneath
3. I’m Director of Design I work at GitHub. It’s a tech thing.
4. Mostly, I discuss features write code sketch design
5. 2009 201
6. 2010 201
7. 2011 201
8. NOW June 8, 2012
9. Mission: Take over the world Let’s build the best company in the world
10. does  robot  work Illustrations by @broccolini
11. USB 12 NANO CONNECTOR HIGH EFFICIENCY INSERT/RETRACT POLYMER VISUAL ACQUISITION SENSOR 1M DPI RETINAL TRANSCEIVER WITH HIGH FIDELITY SQUIGGLY LINE OUTPUT OBJECT ACQUISITION DEVICE 3,000,000 PSI “DEATH PROOF” CLAW ARM EXTERNAL INPUT TERMINAL PREDICTIVE LOGIC MINI QUERTY TECHNOLOGY PLASMA ARM HYPOTHETICAL TERMINUS POINT RETENTION TECHNOLOGY
12. Hubot load fe memcache evict image me
14. Hubot load fe memcache evict image me
16. Hubot load fe memcache evict image me
18. Hubot load fe memcache evict image me play thermonuclear war
19. Hubot deploy Any app. Any branch. Production or staging.
20. Anyone can deploy
21. Everyone does deploy
22. Hubot auto-deploy Starting to get complicated…
23. Did the tests pass? Is your branch up to date? Is someone using production?
24. That’s what robots are for Doing computer work so I don’t have to
26. janky monitors app-perf groceries heaven team haystack kod office me play coalminer halp
27. github’s internal tools introducing
51. … and so many more
52. increase your potential for building rad shit TOOLS
53. Network Ops Business Executive Copywriter Visual Designer UX Designer Sysadmin Assembly Hacker Kernel Hacker Mac Developer Marketer
54. This is your potential How do you want to spend it? Proficient Mastered
55. 1997 I want to be a master Mac Developer Mastered
56. 1997 I want to be a master Visual Designer Mastered
57. 1997 I want to be a proficient Visual Designer and play around as a Mac Developer Proficient
58. 2012 I want to be a master Visual Designer and a proficient Mac Developer Proficient Mastered TOOLS and a proficient Marketer! and learn me some Unix!
59. Our internal tools level up the whole company
60. No managers No top-down “vision” No core hours No mandatory meetings No conference calls
61. GitHub’s tools prevent chaos and give power to employees
62. Our internal tools scale our business
63. Our internal tools adapt Because that’s what software does
64. But, what if we didn’t build these tools?
65. become the culture internal TOOLS
66. You should deploy MR. MANAGER
67. deploy github to production HUBOT
68. Everyone does deploy
69. You need to run tests! MR. MANAGER
70. Kyle, your branch has failing tests. I can’t deploy it right now. HUBOT
71. Everyone does care about tests
72. We’re a distributed company MR. MANAGER
73. Everyone is distributed
74. We’re an idea centered company MR. MANAGER
75. GHTeam::Idea.count => 238
76. No, we are an idea centered company
77. Building software makes me happy
78. Common sense scales companies
79. To us, building internal tools was common sense
80. Internal tools are the DNA of software companies Don’t look at them as wasted effort
82. Internal tools can be beautiful
83. “If you want a golden rule that will t everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” William Morris
85. Surround yourself with beautiful software