BBC account : Engineering Excellence at Strictly Scale (Longer version)

A longer version of the talk I gave on building a culture of "Engineering Excellence" in the BBC account team. Learn how we built a culture of engineering best practices to build the BBC's new account sign-in system at a scale with supports the voting on Strictly Come Dancing.

Transcript

1. THE IT CREWE SEPTEMBER 2018
2. BBC ACCOUNT ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE AT STRICTLY SCALE THE IT CREWE SEPTEMBER 2018
3. MARC LITTLEMORE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TEAM LEAD BBC ACCOUNT BBC AUDIENCE PLATFORM LONDON & MANCHESTER
4. MARC LITTLEMORE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TEAM LEAD @marclittlemore github.com/marcl linkedin.com/in/ marclittlemore www.marclittlemore.com
5. WHAT DO WE DO? BBC account
14. “GATEWAY TO PERSONALISATION”
16. THE PUBLIC LOVE IT BBC account
24. THE TEAM CARES
25. HOW DO WE ENSURE CODE QUALITY AT STRICTLY SCALE?
27. “THE VOTE IS NOW OPEN”
28. STRICTLY SCALE
30. WE BUILD A CULTURE OF ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE
31. WHAT DO WE USE? TECH STACK
32. PROFILE OAUTH/OPENID CONNECT APIS ACCOUNT SESSION OTHER BBC APIS HTTPS USERS FORGE ROCK ACCOUNT FRONTEND IDCTA
35. HOW DO WE WRITE MAINTAINABLE CODE?
37. NOT JUST ABOUT WRITING CODE
38. CODING STANDARDS & CONSISTENCY
40. LINTING & FORMATTING
41. THERE ARE NO BUGS IF WE WRITE LESS CODE
42. WRITING SOFTWARE IS NOT JUST THE CODE
44. STOP! COLLABORATE & LISTEN!
45. WRITING SOFTWARE IS ALL ABOUT COMMUNICATION
46. PAIR PROGRAMMING
48. PULL REQUESTS & CODE REVIEWS
50. PR : WHAT NOT TO DO
51. ADD DETAIL
52. LET’S TALK ABOUT IT
53. DOCUMENTATION
55. ARCHITECTURE DECISION RECORDS
56. IMPORTANT CODE DECISION
57. OOH! A NEW JS FRAMEWORK! IMPORTANT CODE DECISION
59. http://bit.ly/github-adr
60. TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
61. TESTS, TESTS, TESTS EVERYWHERE
62. CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
63. AUTOMATE EVERYTHING
65. ALWAYS LEAVE THE CAMPSITE CLEANER THAN YOU FOUND IT
66. ANY NEW CODE IS POTENTIAL TECHNICAL DEBT
67. ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE •  CONSISTENCY & STANDARDS •  LESS CODE == LESS BUGS •  COMMUNICATION •  DOCUMENTATION •  TESTING •  REDUCE TECHNICAL DEBT
68. KNOWLEDGE SHARING IS KIND OF A BIG DEAL
69. QUESTIONS? @marclittlemore