Developer Happiness - Building Systems & Tools

Have you ever used a tool that made you want to tear your hair out? If we’re being honest, we all have, and some of us are even responsible for the mess we’ve unleashed on our coworkers. Tools and automation that seemed fine at first don’t always scale with the team as it grows. When that happens, you’ll find that the tool will become the latest yak to shave when your new members need to get something done.

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1. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS Building Tools & Systems Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pcorliss/
2. WHO IS THIS ASSHOLE? • Philip Corliss • @pcorliss (Gmail, Twitter, Github) • Cheese Enthusiast • Current GetBraintree.com • Groupon Alum
3. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS Systems and Tools Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pcorliss/ Dev Happiness
4. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS Systems and Tools Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pcorliss/ Happiness
5. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS Systems and Tools Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pcorliss/ Big Companies
6. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS Systems and Tools Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pcorliss/ Institutional Barriers
7. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS Systems and Tools Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pcorliss/ The Worst Tool Ever
8. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS Systems and Tools Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pcorliss/ What did we do?
9. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS Systems and Tools Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pcorliss/ Gatekeepers
10. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS Systems and Tools Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pcorliss/ Process & Automation
11. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS Systems and Tools Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pcorliss/ $ man find | wc -l
12. A demo GUI?
13. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS Systems and Tools Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pcorliss/ Docs
14. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS Systems and Tools Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pcorliss/ What did we do? •Eliminate Gatekeepers •Replace Process with Automation •Ditch the Command Line •Web GUIs Instead •Fewer Docs, Better UX
15. DEVELOPER HAPPINESS Systems and Tools Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pcorliss/ Happy?
16. WHO IS THIS ASSHOLE? • Philip Corliss • @pcorliss (Gmail, Twitter, Github) • Cheese Enthusiast • Current GetBraintree.com • Groupon Alum