Howest University College of Applied Sciences Visit

Students of the Howest University College of Applied Sciences visited MediWeb during their visit to Japan. Interested in our technology and process, I gave them a brief presentation of our company and products, then went into more details about how software is being built at MediWeb.

Transcript

1. Tokyo, 2017-02-08 Students of Howest University College of Applied Sciences, Welcome to MediWeb! © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 1
2. Program 1. A brief presentation of MediWeb 2. Process and Technology 3. Visit 4. Discussion and Q&A © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 2
3. 1. MediWeb © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 3
4. MediWeb • Founded in 2007 by a medical doctor • 20 people (mix of nationalities) © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 4
5. © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 5
6. © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 6
7. 3Bees • A suite of online services for clinics • Development started in 2008 • First public release in 2012 © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 7
8. 3Bees in Numbers © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 8
9. 10 Web Apps 3 Native Mobile Apps 2 On-Premise Systems © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 9
10. 10 AWS Instances and some Heroku dynos © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 10
11. Over 30 Git Repos (Microservices architecture) © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 11
12. 4,000 Clinics © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 12
13. © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 13
14. 2,500,000 patient events © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 14
15. 5.2 engineers © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 15
16. Quick Demo © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 16
17. 2. Process and Technology © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 17
18. Our Pilars of Development • Technology • Process • People © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 18
19. Main Technology • PostgreSQL • Ruby on Rails • Ember.js © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 19
20. Main tools • Github (code management) • Trello (project management) • Slack (team communication) © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 20
21. Development and Production environments • Development: mostly on Macs • Testing: on Heroku • Staging and Production: PaaS (EngineYard) / AWS © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 21
22. Process • Agility all the way • Development: eXtreme Programming • Project management: Scrum Agility is a business decision © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 22
23. © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 23
24. © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 24
25. Engineering Team Rules and Practices © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 25
26. Core Values • Simplicity • Communication • Feedback • Respect • Courage © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 26
27. Coding Standards • Standards are good. • We follow the The Ruby Style Guide • Rubocop • Code Climate © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 27
28. Pair Programming • All production code is pair programmed • Pairs are rotated daily • To get started: try ping-pong, or pomodoro © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 28
29. Simplicity • Do the simplest thing that could possibly work • No adding functionality early © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 29
30. Test Driven Development • Test first • Create unit tests • Create tests when bugs found • Maintain test suite quality • Stop and fix flickering tests when found © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 30
31. Refactoring • Refactor mercilessly, follow red-green-refactor • Read the Refactoring book (again) © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 31
32. © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 32
33. Management and Workflows © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 33
34. Sprints • Starts with the sprint planning • Planning poker to estimate • 2 weeks of development • Grooming half way • Ends with a demo and retrospective © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 34
35. The Sprint Planning • PPD • Planning Poker • Decide sprint goal and commit © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 35
36. Typical Day • Daily standup every morning • Mixing pairs • Trello workflow • Direct communication (open space) © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 36
37. Code Management: Gitflow © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 37
38. 3. Now let's take a look inside © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 38
39. 4. Discussion and Q&A © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 39
40. Thank You! And enjoy the rest of your stay in Japan! © 2017 MediWeb, Inc. 40