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🏃🏻‍♂️ About me!

• Backend Engineering Transplant
• Startup Burnout
• Moment of Fame

08-15-2019

Day everything changed

Will sign Star Tribune prints after the talk

Guest
Facing
Web

1 Team

16 Product squads

• Help Me Help You

• Reward Me

• Help Me Get My Stuff

• Resolve Me Fix It

Web
Platform

Fragmented Ecosystems

United Ecosystem

United Ecosystem (cont.)

Shared

•Foundational UI components

•Foundational Service Layer

•Foundational Dependencies

•Platform CLI

•E2E Tests

•CI / CD Pipeline

 

Encourages

•POC Innovation

•Platform Transparency

•Site Onboarding / Retirement

•Structured Documentation / Release Notes 

Independent

•Specialized Components

•Specialized Services

•Specialized Dependencies

•Test Suites

•Releases / Release Breakages

•PRs

 

Discourages

•Coupling

Our successes

• 37 packages and growing
• Scaffold built and gaining features
• 6 sites coming on board as pilots
• Storybook of components
• 26 Contributors
• And growing every day....

Pain points

• Getting more contributors
• Making Decisions

Tech
Stack

Platform Sites

• React
• Custom SWR (stale-while-revalidate) Data Layer
• Next.JS
• Service Worker
• Cypress

Older Web

• React
• Redux
• Custom SSR Server
• WebdriverIO

Infrastructure

• Strategic Releases with Canary
• Ephemeral Environments (Short Stacks)

The
troubles
we've seen

Performance

Display Mediums

A11y

Cross Pyramid Projects

What's

Coming