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Way of the Herokai @schneems

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@schneems

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Schnauser

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I <3 Ruby

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Hans Peter Von Wolfe (the 5th)

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‚ Schneeman

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Wicked ‘ ‘ Gem

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Triage Code codetriage.com

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Adjunct Professor

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Good News Everyone! schneems.com/ut-rails

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Most Importantly

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We optimize developer happiness

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Git Push: Deploy

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Ruby Task Force

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Ruby Task Force Meetings

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The Heroku Way

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Can only be sought, never attained “

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Questions? @schneems

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The Heroku Way is not

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Defaulting to the easiest

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The Heroku Way is not

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Following the herd

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The Heroku Way is not

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Doing it because it’s what we did last time

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The Heroku Way IS

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Reflecting on every moment

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Constantly asking: Why

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or Why not?

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Why: did we do it this way?

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Could we do it better?

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Hunt problems not solutions

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comes from

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Hero +

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Hero + Haiku

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Samurai Followed “bun and the bu”

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Not enough to master the blade

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จ෢྆ಓ The pen and the sword in accord

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Waza Task Force

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The art of Coffee

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Making coffee the right way

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Making coffee the Heroku way

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Carefully Roasted Beans

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Fresh Ground Coffee (minutes ago)

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Precision Kettle

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Chemex

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205˚F

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~3˚C? ??

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Time

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Why?

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Efficiency is good

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Never Sacrifice Efficiency for reflection

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Building the best product, deliberately

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Fully present

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Don’t forget

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CoWorkers

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Teach new employees how

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1 Brew enough for 2 Cups

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Share the work, share the workflow

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At Heroku we believe deploying apps should be easy and making coffee should be hard." - @mattmanning & @pvh

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How Herokai Get stuff done

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“Herokai”

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A member of Heroku

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Not Pronounced like..

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No Deadlines

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Instead: Priorities

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Ship it when it is ready

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Ship it when it is right

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No Deadlines*

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Problem Research Prototype Alpha Beta Release

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Problem Research Prototype Alpha Beta Release }

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Does it always work like that?

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Nope

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Problem: Awesome feature (B) relies on Amazing feature (A)

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GH Issues

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A long time ago... Largest GH customer

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Project Coordination

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Who decides on what features

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Ponies vs Mustangs

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Mustang

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Pony

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Why?

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Sounds better than “things we really freaking have to do” and “stuff we should probably do someday”

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Makers Day

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Makers Day

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Makers Day

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Cut out Distractions

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No Meetings

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Focus, reflect, get work done

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Developer Productivity:

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3 steps 1 step <

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1 step No steps <

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Time critical issues...

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Incident Commander Incident Commander

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Examples: Availability Security Performance

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Coordinates comms

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Prioritizes Work

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Recruits Help to fill the gaps

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IC removes blockers, lets devs focus

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Postmortem & followup actions

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Status Site

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In-office offline lights

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Remo-kais

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Remo(te)- (Hero)kais

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70% In SF

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Protip: don’t call SF “san fran”

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Ever

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I live in Austin, Tx

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No: I do not ride a horse to work

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(I work from home)

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Tools:

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Trello

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Github Issues

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Campfire

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G+ Hangouts

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Remote Week

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You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here

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Campfire + gchat much more active

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Organized by VIBE

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An organization dedicated to preserving our culture, and developer sanity

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Developers: building tools for developers

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No one can walk the path for you

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You must find it yourself

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A meditation on Herokai

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“ Herokai seek dreams,

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“ Herokai seek dreams, meditating happiness.

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“ Herokai seek dreams, meditating happiness. Building sharp simple tools

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“ Herokai seek dreams, meditating happiness. Building sharp simple tools #haiku

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The Way of the Herokai

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Questions? @schneems (btw I have stickers)

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Questions? @schneems