Software Development Engineers Ireland
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The document discusses software development practices at Rococo and Dial2Do, emphasizing agile methodologies such as Scrum and continuous deployment. It highlights the use of various development and deployment tools, including APIs and cloud services like Amazon EC2 and S3. Additionally, it covers the importance of user feedback, ease of use, and experimentation in creating fast and efficient software solutions.
Software Development Engineers Ireland
- 1. BUILDING SOFTWARE FAST AND WELL Sean O Sullivan twitter @sos100
- 2. Why am I here? Rococo www.rococosoft.com Mobile / Wireless (short range) Shipped JSR82 on 200M+ mobile phones LocalSocial: Proximity Platform (www.mylocalsocial.com) 3 software engineers Dial2Do www.dial2do.com Value add voice platform Speak to get things done (email, twitter, text, 40+ actions) Live in 26 countries, partners Plantronics, Jabra, Jawbone,… 4 software engineers
- 3. FAST WELL Process Development tools / technology Deployment tools / technology
- 4. Process
- 5. Process: Agile and Scrum Iterations have been 3-4 weeks on average Lots of feedback along the way Try, change, review, re-plan A la carte take on Agile Testsfirst – mostly Pair programming – sometimes Continuous deploy – yes User stories – yes Refactoring – yes
- 6. Process: Roadmap Deals Share Social MobDeal User Proximity Social Redeem Simple Power Merchant Register Loyalty Deals Deals Social Locations Analytics Campaigns MobDeal Proximity Wireless Bluetooth "private" QR NFC Public WiFi Support WiFi Support Support Iteration1 Iteration2 Iteration3
- 7. Process: Minimum Viable Product Eric Ries @ startuplessonslearn.com
- 8. FAST WELL Process Development tools / technology Deployment tools / technology
- 9. Development Tools Frameworks API Rails Gson (Java, Android) Android acts_as_api (Ruby) Java Test IDEs RSPec Eclipse (Java / Android) Cucumber IntelliJ / RubyMine (Rails/Ruby) Junit Continuous Integration Database TeamCity ORMlite (Android) Version Control mySQL on Amazon RDS Git, GitFlow Charting Highcharts AgilePM TinyPM And more besides….see the blog post
- 10. Git and gitflow
- 11. Testing Cucumber BehaviourDriven Development framework Domain Specific Language to describe code behaviour RSpec BDD for Ruby
- 12. Making / sharing APIs Rails : acts_as_api Java (Android) : Gson
- 13. highcharts
- 14. FAST WELL Process Development tools / technology Deployment tools / technology
- 15. Deployment Started out with Amazon EC2 A little too early – very Beta back then Then S3 Much better – very stable Back to EC2 when it stabilised Been very solid for some time now…
- 17. Motivations Ease of use / Speed of use Experimentation AMIs Flexibility Pricing
- 18. LocalSocial S3 Stores AMIs Fedora 8 from AWS Plus all our own stuff (RoR, Scripts, …) EC2 One “small instance” Server 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform Runs our AMI fulltime Two domains right now gigmonkey.com mylocalsocial.com And our VPN EBS Connected to running EC2 Instance Persistent Store for all mySQL DBs
- 19. LocalSocial
- 20. Heroku
- 22. Open Source A few words on it Incredible in terms of potential for re-use, time saving, cost saving, quality Must have eyes fully open License, support, TCOO Need a house style / approach Awareness of license types / styles BlackDuck
- 23. Observations Great time (imho) for software development Development and Deployment Tools Costs Re-use Help Routes to Markets Speed / gratification (or failure) Ability to test features, product quickly
- 24. BUILDING SOFTWARE FAST AND WELL Sean O Sullivan twitter @sos100
- 25. References / Material - process Joe Drumgoole Introduction to Agile and Scrum Lean Startup / MVP Guide to MVP from Eric Ries here
- 26. References / Material - tools TinyPM Agile PM tool Git Branching model Tools for branching model Open Source management, control, checking Black Duck here Acts_as_api XML/JSON responses in Rails 3 Tutorial here Highcharts Charts here