Building an army of robots

Slide 1

Slide 1 text

Slide 2

Slide 2 text

I’m Kyle Neath On the interwebs @kneath

Slide 3

Slide 3 text

I’m Director of Design I work at GitHub. It’s a tech thing.

Slide 4

Slide 4 text

Mostly, I discuss features write code sketch design

Slide 5

Slide 5 text

2009 201

Slide 6

Slide 6 text

2010 201

Slide 7

Slide 7 text

2011 201

Slide 8

Slide 8 text

NOW June 8, 2012

Slide 9

Slide 9 text

Mission: Take over the world Let’s build the best company in the world

Slide 10

Slide 10 text

does robot work Illustrations by @broccolini

Slide 11

Slide 11 text

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

Slide 12

Slide 12 text

Hubot load fe memcache evict image me

Slide 13

Slide 13 text

No content

Slide 14

Slide 14 text

Hubot load fe memcache evict image me

Slide 15

Slide 15 text

No content

Slide 16

Slide 16 text

Hubot load fe memcache evict image me

Slide 17

Slide 17 text

No content

Slide 18

Slide 18 text

Hubot load fe memcache evict image me play thermonuclear war

Slide 19

Slide 19 text

Hubot deploy Any app. Any branch. Production or staging.

Slide 20

Slide 20 text

Anyone can deploy

Slide 21

Slide 21 text

Everyone does deploy

Slide 22

Slide 22 text

Hubot auto-deploy Starting to get complicated…

Slide 23

Slide 23 text

Did the tests pass? Is your branch up to date? Is someone using production?

Slide 24

Slide 24 text

That’s what robots are for Doing computer work so I don’t have to

Slide 25

Slide 25 text

No content

Slide 26

Slide 26 text

janky monitors app-perf groceries heaven team haystack kod office me play coalminer halp

Slide 27

Slide 27 text

github’s internal tools introducing

Slide 28

Slide 28 text

No content

Slide 29

Slide 29 text

No content

Slide 30

Slide 30 text

No content

Slide 31

Slide 31 text

No content

Slide 32

Slide 32 text

No content

Slide 33

Slide 33 text

No content

Slide 34

Slide 34 text

No content

Slide 35

Slide 35 text

No content

Slide 36

Slide 36 text

No content

Slide 37

Slide 37 text

No content

Slide 38

Slide 38 text

No content

Slide 39

Slide 39 text

No content

Slide 40

Slide 40 text

No content

Slide 41

Slide 41 text

No content

Slide 42

Slide 42 text

No content

Slide 43

Slide 43 text

No content

Slide 44

Slide 44 text

No content

Slide 45

Slide 45 text

No content

Slide 46

Slide 46 text

No content

Slide 47

Slide 47 text

No content

Slide 48

Slide 48 text

No content

Slide 49

Slide 49 text

No content

Slide 50

Slide 50 text

No content

Slide 51

Slide 51 text

… and so many more

Slide 52

Slide 52 text

increase your potential for building rad shit TOOLS

Slide 53

Slide 53 text

Network Ops Business Executive Copywriter Visual Designer UX Designer Sysadmin Assembly Hacker Kernel Hacker Mac Developer Marketer

Slide 54

Slide 54 text

This is your potential How do you want to spend it? Proficient Mastered

Slide 55

Slide 55 text

1997 I want to be a master Mac Developer Mastered

Slide 56

Slide 56 text

1997 I want to be a master Visual Designer Mastered

Slide 57

Slide 57 text

1997 I want to be a proﬁcient Visual Designer and play around as a Mac Developer Proficient

Slide 58

Slide 58 text

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!

Slide 59

Slide 59 text

Our internal tools level up the whole company

Slide 60

Slide 60 text

No managers No top-down “vision” No core hours No mandatory meetings No conference calls

Slide 61

Slide 61 text

GitHub’s tools prevent chaos and give power to employees

Slide 62

Slide 62 text

Our internal tools scale our business

Slide 63

Slide 63 text

Our internal tools adapt Because that’s what software does

Slide 64

Slide 64 text

But, what if we didn’t build these tools?

Slide 65

Slide 65 text

become the culture internal TOOLS

Slide 66

Slide 66 text

You should deploy MR. MANAGER

Slide 67

Slide 67 text

deploy github to production HUBOT

Slide 68

Slide 68 text

Everyone does deploy

Slide 69

Slide 69 text

You need to run tests! MR. MANAGER

Slide 70

Slide 70 text

Kyle, your branch has failing tests. I can’t deploy it right now. HUBOT

Slide 71

Slide 71 text

Everyone does care about tests

Slide 72

Slide 72 text

We’re a distributed company MR. MANAGER

Slide 73

Slide 73 text

Everyone is distributed

Slide 74

Slide 74 text

We’re an idea centered company MR. MANAGER

Slide 75

Slide 75 text

GHTeam::Idea.count => 238

Slide 76

Slide 76 text

No, we are an idea centered company

Slide 77

Slide 77 text

Building software makes me happy

Slide 78

Slide 78 text

Common sense scales companies

Slide 79

Slide 79 text

To us, building internal tools was common sense

Slide 80

Slide 80 text

Internal tools are the DNA of software companies Don’t look at them as wasted eﬀort

Slide 81

Slide 81 text

No content

Slide 82

Slide 82 text

Internal tools can be beautiful

Slide 83

Slide 83 text

“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