Admin Your App

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1. Admin Your App or Why Internal Tools Matter
2. Hi. I’m Mike. (Michael Sean Becker)
3. Content Engineering
8. I’d like to tell you a story
10. Initial Build • Rails for backend and frontend • Active Admin
11. Then RailsConf 2012 Happened
13. The Ecosystem • Smaller systems that talk to each other • API Endpoints that served both Web and Mobile • and….. • Active Admin in the same spot as before
14. We modified our architecture, but didn’t update how we dealt with internal tools.
15. • Admin wasn’t updated • Content creators were blocked • Engineers had to begin updating content
16. That brings us to 2014
17. Principles • API driven • Testable • Trackable • Administrable
18. Our new goals • Internal users deserve good tools • Treat our data as content and not rows in a spreadsheet • Admin tools need to be easy to add to and extend by other developers
19. Internal Products and Tools can be as important as the ones you build for your customers
20. The Plan • Small, reusable libraries for common functionality • Done with Ember Components when possible • Consolidated code
21. The Other Side • Use an establish CMS • Fix Active Admin installation • Use our admin tools to experiment with new technology
22. What next? • Building our admin tools from scratch • Start moving features over one at a time • Starting with moving the blog into our ecosystem
23. Things we need to solve • Isolating feature code • Bower to make admin sections
24. Thank You @michaelsbecker www.michaelseanbecker.com