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Nara Kasbergen
November 17, 2016
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php[world] 2016 Keynote - Cruft to Class: NPR’s 15-year Journey with PHP
by Nara Kasbergen & Paul Miles
November 17, 2016
Nara Kasbergen
November 17, 2016
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php[world] 2016 Cruft to Class: NPR’s 15-year Journey with PHP
Nara Kasbergen (@xiehan) & Paul Miles (@milespj) • November 17, 2016
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A story in 5 acts
Act I: In the beginning…
November 2001 npr.org re-launches using PHP (previously just static files)
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2 in 10 Americans regularly got their news online in
2000 Source: Pew Research
3 in 10 Americans regularly got their news online in
2006 Source: Pew Research
7% U.S. adults who used social media sites in 2005
Source: Pew Research
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11% U.S. adults who had listened to at least one
podcast in 2006 Source: Edison Research
February 2004 First commit to NPR Digital Media's master repository
on CVS
January 2007 Steve Jobs announces the first Apple iPhone
November 2007 First version of our mobile site (m.npr.org) launches
Act II: Enter the API
August 2008 NPR Digital Media launches its "Story API", an
XML-based, PHP-powered public API
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Spring 2009 NPR Digital Media adopts "Scrum" flavor of Agile
Spring 2009 Every NPR Digital Media developer gets their own
virtual machine set up almost identically to our stage/production servers
Spring 2009 NPR Digital Media switches from CVS to SVN
July 2009 Seamus (our CMS) and npr.org re-launch with a
complete redesign
July 2009 NPR Digital Media launches the NPR News app
for iOS
October 2009 npr.org upgrades to PHP 5.2
November 2009 npr.org switches from Oracle to MySQL under-the-hood
November 2009 Second version of m.npr.org, built by a third
party, launches
8,543 commits to the master repository from Sep 2007 –
May 2011 by 9 different developers
Act III: Let's go responsive
May 2011 NPR Digital Media holds its first-ever "Serendipity Days"
(hack week)
September 2011 npr.org upgrades to PHP 5.3.8 from 5.2.9
April 2012 NPR Digital Media adopts Jenkins for builds and
continuous integration (as a result of a Serendipity Days project!)
October 2012 NPR Digital Media launches a new responsive layout
for blogs on npr.org, the first phase in a multi-year responsive redesign project
May 2013 NPR Digital Media begins work on the "Carbon
Services", a new API that will power what eventually becomes NPR One
July 2013 npr.org upgrades to PHP 5.5.0 from 5.3.8
August 2013 NPR Digital Media launches a new responsive homepage
for npr.org
7,302 commits to the master repository from May 2011 –
Dec 2013 by 11 different developers
Act IV: New recruits, new ideas
March 2014 NPR Digital Media completes the switchover from SVN
to Git
March 2014 NPR Digital Media begins using Composer for dependency
management
July 2014 NPR Digital Media launches NPR One, our newest
mobile app for iOS and Android
April 2015 First true unit test is added our main
repository
June 2015 NPR Digital Media begins "DevOpsification" project
March 2016 npr.org retires its Flash-based pop-up audio player in
favor of a persistent HTML5 audio player
May 2016 NPR Digital Media launches a public developer blog,
npr.codes
November 2016 npr.org finally upgrades to PHP 5.6
4 in 10 Americans regularly get their news online in
2016 Source: Pew Research
65% U.S. adults who used social media sites in 2015
Source: Pew Research
21% U.S. adults who listened to a podcast last month
Source: Edison Research
17,354 commits to the master repository from Dec 2013 –
Nov 2016 by 22 different developers
Act V: The future
sometime in 2017 npr.org upgrades to PHP 7
7 strategies for success
1. Serendipity Days
Give people time & space to be creative
Put their best ideas into action
2. Agile
Don't fix what isn't broken
Always be open to changing the process if needed
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday SPRINT PLANNING Developer Mtg. Code
Code Code Code 5pm Code Complete Code Reviews (all day) Set Up Staging QA #1 QA #2 QA #3 2:30pm Code Freeze RELEASE Retrospectives Hotfixes
3. Continuous Deployment
Separate code concerns
Automate builds and deployments
Refactor while delivering features
4. DevOps
Treat infrastructure as code
Provides consistency
Fosters testing and QA
5. Invest in Testing
Run tests on every commit
Fix failing tests immediately
Story not done until tests written
Measure coverage
6. Community & Standards
Attend conferences
Speak at conferences & meetups
Blog openly npr.codes - NPR's public developer blog
Use open-source software
Use community standards & best practices
7. Happy Employees
Hire good coders
Hire good coders
Hire good humans
About Us Nara Kasbergen Software Engineer twitter.com/xiehan linkedin.com/in/narakasbergen Paul Miles
Development Manager twitter.com/milespj linkedin.com/in/milespj npr.codes - NPR's public developer blog twitter.com/NPRTechTeam
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