php[world] 2016 Keynote - Cruft to Class: NPR’s 15-year Journey with PHP

by Nara Kasbergen & Paul Miles
November 17, 2016

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1. php[world] 2016 Cruft to Class: NPR’s 15-year Journey with PHP Nara Kasbergen (@xiehan) & Paul Miles (@milespj) • November 17, 2016
4. A story in 5 acts
5. Act I: In the beginning…
6. November 2001 npr.org re-launches using PHP (previously just static files)
12. 2 in 10 Americans regularly got their news online in 2000 Source: Pew Research
13. 3 in 10 Americans regularly got their news online in 2006 Source: Pew Research
14. 7% U.S. adults who used social media sites in 2005 Source: Pew Research
16. 11% U.S. adults who had listened to at least one podcast in 2006 Source: Edison Research
17. February 2004 First commit to NPR Digital Media's master repository on CVS
18. January 2007 Steve Jobs announces the first Apple iPhone
19. November 2007 First version of our mobile site (m.npr.org) launches
20. Act II: Enter the API
21. August 2008 NPR Digital Media launches its "Story API", an XML-based, PHP-powered public API
23. Spring 2009 NPR Digital Media adopts "Scrum" flavor of Agile
24. Spring 2009 Every NPR Digital Media developer gets their own virtual machine set up almost identically to our stage/production servers
25. Spring 2009 NPR Digital Media switches from CVS to SVN
26. July 2009 Seamus (our CMS) and npr.org re-launch with a complete redesign
27. July 2009 NPR Digital Media launches the NPR News app for iOS
28. October 2009 npr.org upgrades to PHP 5.2
29. November 2009 npr.org switches from Oracle to MySQL under-the-hood
30. November 2009 Second version of m.npr.org, built by a third party, launches
31. 8,543 commits to the master repository from Sep 2007 – May 2011 by 9 different developers
32. Act III: Let's go responsive
33. May 2011 NPR Digital Media holds its first-ever "Serendipity Days" (hack week)
34. September 2011 npr.org upgrades to PHP 5.3.8 from 5.2.9
35. April 2012 NPR Digital Media adopts Jenkins for builds and continuous integration (as a result of a Serendipity Days project!)
36. 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
37. May 2013 NPR Digital Media begins work on the "Carbon Services", a new API that will power what eventually becomes NPR One
38. July 2013 npr.org upgrades to PHP 5.5.0 from 5.3.8
39. August 2013 NPR Digital Media launches a new responsive homepage for npr.org
40. 7,302 commits to the master repository from May 2011 – Dec 2013 by 11 different developers
41. Act IV: New recruits, new ideas
42. March 2014 NPR Digital Media completes the switchover from SVN to Git
43. March 2014 NPR Digital Media begins using Composer for dependency management
44. July 2014 NPR Digital Media launches NPR One, our newest mobile app for iOS and Android
45. April 2015 First true unit test is added our main repository
46. June 2015 NPR Digital Media begins "DevOpsification" project
47. March 2016 npr.org retires its Flash-based pop-up audio player in favor of a persistent HTML5 audio player
48. May 2016 NPR Digital Media launches a public developer blog, npr.codes
49. November 2016 npr.org finally upgrades to PHP 5.6
50. 4 in 10 Americans regularly get their news online in 2016 Source: Pew Research
51. 65% U.S. adults who used social media sites in 2015 Source: Pew Research
52. 21% U.S. adults who listened to a podcast last month Source: Edison Research
53. 17,354 commits to the master repository from Dec 2013 – Nov 2016 by 22 different developers
54. Act V: The future
55. sometime in 2017 npr.org upgrades to PHP   7
56. 7 strategies for success
57. 1. Serendipity Days
58. Give people time & space to be creative
59. Put their best ideas into action
60. 2. Agile
61. Don't fix what isn't broken
62. Always be open to changing the process if needed
63. 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
64. 3. Continuous Deployment
65. Separate code concerns
66. Automate builds and deployments
67. Refactor while delivering features
68. 4. DevOps
69. Treat infrastructure as code
70. Provides consistency
71. Fosters testing and QA
72. 5. Invest in Testing
73. Run tests on every commit
74. Fix failing tests immediately
75. Story not done until tests written
76. Measure coverage
77. 6. Community & Standards
78. Attend conferences
79. Speak at conferences & meetups
80. Blog openly npr.codes - NPR's public developer blog
81. Use open-source software
82. Use community standards & best practices
83. 7. Happy Employees
84. Hire good coders
85. Hire good coders
86. Hire good humans
87. 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