Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Architecting a Culture of Quality
Search
Sponsored
·
Ship Features Fearlessly
Turn features on and off without deploys. Used by thousands of Ruby developers.
→
David Cramer
May 02, 2014
Programming
340
2
Share
Embed
Copy iframe code
Copy JS code
Copy link
Start on current slide
Architecting a Culture of Quality
Python Nordeste 2014
David Cramer
May 02, 2014
More Decks by David Cramer
See All by David Cramer
Mastering Duct Tape (PyCon Balkan 2018)
zeeg
2
920
Open Source as a Business (PyCon SG 2014)
zeeg
0
410
Angular.js Workshop (PyCon SG 2014)
zeeg
0
280
Redis Hacks
zeeg
3
270
Release Faster
zeeg
12
1.5k
Open Source as a Business (EuroPython 2013)
zeeg
18
17k
Building to Scale (PyCon TW 2013)
zeeg
18
1.4k
Building to Scale
zeeg
28
24k
Lessons in Testing - DjangoCon 2012
zeeg
8
1.5k
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
さぁV100、メモリをお食べ・・・
nilpe
0
150
Vue × Nuxt × Oxc どこまで使える?実運用の現在地
andpad
0
280
Agentic UI
manfredsteyer
PRO
0
180
技術記事、 専門家としてのプログラマ、 言語化
mizchi
13
6.3k
Language Server 使ってる? 〜VSCode と Zed の場合〜 / Are you using a Language Server? ~For VS Code and Zed~
handlename
0
800
Strategic Design in the Frontend: Moduliths & Micro Frontends @DDDEurope
manfredsteyer
PRO
0
110
Honoでのサプライチェーン侵害対策 〜 3つのライブラリに学ぶ
yusukebe
7
1.4k
脅威をエンジニアリングの糧にして――現場編 / Turning Threats into Engineering Fuel — Field Edition
nrslib
0
290
軽量Java基盤の設計 DIコンテナに頼らない、長期保守と1秒起動の実現 JJUG CCC 2026 Spring
macha64
0
550
AI時代のUIはどこへ行く?その2!
yusukebe
22
7.4k
AI 時代のソフトウェア設計の学び方
masuda220
PRO
29
13k
ふつうのFeature Flag実践入門
irof
8
4.1k
Featured
See All Featured
Chasing Engaging Ingredients in Design
codingconduct
0
220
Visualization
eitanlees
152
17k
What’s in a name? Adding method to the madness
productmarketing
PRO
24
4.1k
Designing Powerful Visuals for Engaging Learning
tmiket
1
420
The SEO identity crisis: Don't let AI make you average
varn
0
490
AI: The stuff that nobody shows you
jnunemaker
PRO
8
720
From Legacy to Launchpad: Building Startup-Ready Communities
dugsong
0
230
It's Worth the Effort
3n
188
29k
Leveraging Curiosity to Care for An Aging Population
cassininazir
1
270
[Rails World 2023 - Day 1 Closing Keynote] - The Magic of Rails
eileencodes
38
2.9k
HTML-Aware ERB: The Path to Reactive Rendering @ RubyCon 2026, Rimini, Italy
marcoroth
1
210
Agile Actions for Facilitating Distributed Teams - ADO2019
mkilby
0
210
Transcript
David Cramer twitter.com/zeeg Architecting a Culture of Quality
None
None
I work on Developer Productivity
(aka the build system + tooling)
ň+PGGFVQRWUJVJKUEJCPIGQWVTKIJVPQYʼn
None
How do we stop emergency pushes?
Identifying the Problems
Slow build process DQQVUVTCRRTQXKUKQPVGUVUGVE
Inaccurate or missing tests
Complex dependencies
Day 1 at Dropbox..
"Go through these manual steps to setup a dev environment”
None
"Why aren’t we using something like Vagrant?"
Keep Things Simple
“make” — a promise that it’s simple
.PHONY: develop setup-env ! # install dependencies develop: setup-env npm
install bower install env/bin/pip install -e . ! ! # ensure virtualenv setup-env: virtualenv ./env
a Makefile is just one solution
Bootstrap affects our sanity
vagrant up ⇢ puppet apply
Bootstrap affects newly hired developers
Bootstrap affects rebuilding environments
Bootstrap affects ability and time to run tests
Remove Dependencies
You cannot reproduce your production environment
Stop Trying
Do you really need Apache? RTQDCDN[PQV
Do you really need HAProxy? UGTKQWUN[!
Do you really need RabbitMQ? JQYCDQWV4GFKU!
Do you really need Zookeeper? PQRG
Do you really need Hadoop? NQN
Do you really need Anything?
Justify your dependencies
Use build servers for whatever is left over
Find Your Bottlenecks [QWRTQDCDN[FQP VGXGPPGGFC8/
Does a using (and maintaining) a VM actually save you
time?
Building A Testing Culture
Make testing so easy that you feel good about writing
tests
"Oh hey, a test I can copy/paste" +VņUCDQWVVJGOCMKPIKVCEEGUUKDNG
Encourage building better testing tools and paradigms
pip install pytest
pip install flake8
pip install mock
Your goal is to make testing accessible
Automatically test individual commits to ensure every change is stable
None
Test Continuously Before code review
Test Continuously During code review
Test Continuously Post-code review (merge)
Keep a tight Feedback Loop PQQPGYCPVUVQHKPFQWVVJGPGZVFC[VJCVVJGKTEQFGYCUDTQMGP
None
Time to response is so important that we fanout to
25 servers per build
Prevent mistakes by blocking commits which fail the build cycle
Red builds can never be deployed
Use Code Review
None
Use Code Review to sanity check code
Use Code Review to influence testing culture
Use Code Review to educate developers
Use Code Review to decrease cycle time
"Does this change look sane?"
"No, this will break X, Y, and Z" FKF[QWGXGPMPQY:YCUCVJKPI!
Aim for Quality Patches
Changes happen outside of master causing master to be the
new stable CMCVKRQTVTWPM
Quality Will Happen
Smaller, better commits
Accessibility is your goal
Accuracy breeds adoption
Scale culture through tooling
Thank You! ! twitter.com/zeeg