Building an army of robots

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1. Building an army of robots

2. I’m Kyle Neath On the interwebs @kneath

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

   tech thing.

4. Mostly, I discuss features write code sketch design

5. 2009 201

6. 2010 201

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8. NOW June 8, 2012

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

   in the world

10. does  robot  work Illustrations by @broccolini

11. 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

12. Hubot load fe memcache evict image me

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14. Hubot load fe memcache evict image me

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18. Hubot load fe memcache evict image me play thermonuclear war

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

20. Anyone can deploy

21. Everyone does deploy

22. Hubot auto-deploy Starting to get complicated…

23. Did the tests pass? Is your branch up to date?

    Is someone using production?

24. That’s what robots are for Doing computer work so I

    don’t have to
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26. janky monitors app-perf groceries heaven team haystack kod office me

    play coalminer halp

27. github’s internal tools introducing

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51. … and so many more

52. increase your potential for building rad shit TOOLS

53. Network Ops Business Executive Copywriter Visual Designer UX Designer Sysadmin

    Assembly Hacker Kernel Hacker Mac Developer Marketer

54. This is your potential How do you want to spend

    it? Proficient Mastered

55. 1997 I want to be a master Mac Developer Mastered

56. 1997 I want to be a master Visual Designer Mastered

57. 1997 I want to be a proficient Visual Designer and

    play around as a Mac Developer Proficient

58. 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!

59. Our internal tools level up the whole company

60. No managers No top-down “vision” No core hours No mandatory

    meetings No conference calls

61. GitHub’s tools prevent chaos and give power to employees

62. Our internal tools scale our business

63. Our internal tools adapt Because that’s what software does

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

65. become the culture internal TOOLS

66. You should deploy MR. MANAGER

67. deploy github to production HUBOT

68. Everyone does deploy

69. You need to run tests! MR. MANAGER

70. Kyle, your branch has failing tests. I can’t deploy it

    right now. HUBOT

71. Everyone does care about tests

72. We’re a distributed company MR. MANAGER

73. Everyone is distributed

74. We’re an idea centered company MR. MANAGER

75. GHTeam::Idea.count => 238

76. No, we are an idea centered company

77. Building software makes me happy

78. Common sense scales companies

79. To us, building internal tools was common sense

80. Internal tools are the DNA of software companies Don’t look

    at them as wasted effort
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82. Internal tools can be beautiful

83. “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
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85. Surround yourself with beautiful software