Open source behind the firewall

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! Open source behind the firewall What government can learn from startups and the open source community @benbalter government.github.com government@github.com

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! 1. How government works 2. How open source projects work 3. How gov. can work like open source

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! How you work is as important as what you work on

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! But first, I’d like to talk about trash cans

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! But first, I’d like to talk about rubbish bins

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! For any given problem,   there are always two solutions

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! The easy way and   the government way

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! When outputs can’t be measured, government institutes process

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! A lot of process.

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! " on the DC Metro

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! " on the London Underground

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! Transparency solves for process

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! How government typically works

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! Few (if any) in-house developers

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! Same procurement process for   aircraft carriers and websites

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! Siloed IP, Siloed efforts

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! Closed source, but still somehow, too many cooks in the kitchen

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! Program managers as   human issue trackers

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! Non-purpose built tools (Excel + Outlook)

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Ye Olde workflow

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! Open Source ≠ Published Source

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! How Open Source projects work

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! If you remember one thing about open source’s secret sauce…

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! Prefer systems that naturally capture and expose process

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! Who made what change when (without the human blocker)

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! Open source is the story of   Wikipedia v. Encyclopedia Britannica

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! Rarely in the same place   at the same time

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! Rarely working on the same thing  at the same time

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! Better results than   heavyweight alternatives

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! The constraints of open source

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! ! Electronic High fidelity mediums expose process

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! # Transparent Communicate decisions in realtime, and forever

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! $ Asynchronous Focus workflow on code, not meetings

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! % Informal Adopt cultures, not polices

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! What makes a healthy   open source project?

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‣Code in the open ‣Shared, public issue tracker ‣Extensive test suite run on each proposed change & Code

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‣Proposed improvements discussed in the open ‣Few synchronous meetings   (open and memorialized when necessary) ‣All stakeholders have opportunity to contribute ' Discussions

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! What government can   learn from open source (even if the code’s never public)

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! Friction (n)  Time between “I want to contribute” and “I have”

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! 1. Minimize friction

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! in Gov Speak

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! Maximize the substance-process ratio

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! ( Scripts to rule them all $ script/test Bootstrapping $ boxen giants $ cd ~/github/giants $ script/bootstrap Running $ script/server Testing githubengineering.com/scripts-to-rule-them-all

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! 2. Prefer cultural constraints to administrative or technical constraints

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! Non-blocking is better than blocking

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! 3. Optimize for   developer happiness

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! You can have open source without executive oversight

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! You can have open source without policy guidance

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! You can’t have open source without developers

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! You can’t have open source without code

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! What does that look like practically?

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! ) Email

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! At GitHub we use GitHub to build GitHub

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GitHub uses GitHub for Code Legal HR Blog posts Documentation Policies Sales Ops

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zachholman.com/posts/github-communication

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! “Meetings pull you from actual work in order to talk about doing work”

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‣ We use 185 rooms at the moment. ‣ We generated 29,168 lines of text on February 4. ‣ Of that, Hubot accounted for 13,462 lines. ‣ 468 images were pasted in. ‣ We deployed various apps and services 544 times.

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! Why chat?

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! Chat is inherently asynchronous

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! Tapping someone on the shoulder is inherently being a jerk

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! Scheduling a meeting is inherently evil

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! Chat has transcripts

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! Chat exposes process

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* Meet Hubot

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! + Continuous Integration (CI)

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+ Continuous Integration (CI)

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, Build Status

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‣ ~1,500 test suits ‣ ~19,00 tests ‣ ~80,000 assertions ‣ x 2 environments (.com, Enterprise) ‣ Tests > 20 seconds are considered a failure ‣ ~ 90 seconds to complete - On each push…

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! /Deploy

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! Nothing gets deployed unless tests are green

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⚡ Doing it live

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Meanwhile, back at the pull request…

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! githubengineering.com/deploying-branches-to-github-com

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0 ChatOps

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" Shared Command Line •View cameras in our datacenter • Search error logs • Manage and trigger alerts • Perform server maintenance • View load balancer status • Spin up cloud instances • Provision servers • Adjust ﬁrewall ports • Activate DDoS Mitigation • Restart processes • Conﬁgure DNS • Deploy to production

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! Who’s doing this?

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! 20,000+ government users

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! 1,000+ government organizations

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! 100+ UK government orgs

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! What about the private sector?

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Startups twitter.github.io yelp.github.io

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netﬂix.github.io adobe.github.io

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Tech Giants sap.github.io ibm.github.io microsoft.github.io

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! To summarize…

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! 1. Transparency can save you   from the tyranny of process

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! 2. Prefer systems that inherently  capture and expose process

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! 3. Minimize friction

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! Open source behind the firewall What government can learn from startups and the open source community @benbalter government.github.com government@github.com

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! Appendix

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A typical deployment ﬂow Development Staging Production

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GitHub's 1 ﬂow Development Staging Production Development Development Staging Staging

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2 Branch Labs

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3 Queuing

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‣ Trash can — https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcmetroblogger/ 191721958/ ‣ Rubbish Bin - http://anonw.com/2013/02/08/more-bins-are- appearing-on-the-underground/