Converser Development Tools

A short talk at @RubyIreland in Dublin, 19 Feb 14, detailing the development tools we use at http://converser.io and their interdependencies.

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1. converser development tools @oisin
2. converser
3. converser github • master + tags ships to production, manually • develop ships to staging, automatically • feature branches arrive via reviewed pull request to develop • develop is merged to master • activity appears in hipchat
4. converser circleci • automated build and test run • deploys to staging on successful run • notifies hipchat on fails and recoveries in hipchat • rspec / minitest / jasmine • phantomjs and casper still human powered as part of review
5. converser codeclimate • consensus “quality” metric • coverage / complexity / security • used to measure improvements and encourage continuous small focussed refactors • raise security issues as bugs • does not inhibit build success
6. converser hipchat • notify all the things • code / build / quality activities Iteration Sauna • issue tracking activities • deployment activities • staging / production alerts The Infirmary • general banter and gifs The Lounge
7. converser pivotal • story keeping, analysis and progress • accessible to non-technical staff (and used by same) • notifies hipchat with events - different room per broad topic area • caveat - velocity calculation ineffective for small teams
8. converser rollbar • exception detection and stats • creates issues to track exceptions • live alert to hipchat • excellent visibility into sneaky one-offs
9. converser logentries • log tracking with indexing and pattern match • custom categorize messages as events • set triggers based on events • automate alerts based on trigger counts • emails and send SMS messages (thru mon)
10. converser new relic • performance of web invocations • absolutely vital to continuous improvement, especially API services • database integrations help • requests queuing / request execution • emails issues
11. converser github $50 circleci $49 codeclimate $99 hipchat $14 rollbar $12 logentries $99 mon $0 email $56 new relic $0 pivotal $18 $397