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Taking Flickr to Gamma Some things we should have learned by now Cal Henderson

Cal Henderson Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 2

No scaling stuff (Today) Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 3

Book! Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 4

Buy my book (Or Theo’s) Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 5

Construction workers Socially & PE teachers acceptable The nerd scale Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 6

We’ve come a long way Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 7

Lots of new stuff Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 8

Not many examples (Hello LJ) Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 9

New ground Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 10

Things we Things we already knew needed to know Something about HTML Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 11

What we learned, Wasn’t unique Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 12

So how are we different? Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 13

It takes outsiders to see Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 14

Some ideas, then? Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 15

Lesson 1 - ? Plan for maintenance Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 16

Advance notice Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 17

Disable by component Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 18

Tell your users Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 19

Clear escalation paths Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 20

Who do I call? Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 21

In-process alerts Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 22

Communication! Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 23

Stats tracking is hard (and important) Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 24

So many stats So little time Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 25

More graphs Much more graphs Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 26

Cacti Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 27

Ganglia Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 28

Web stats – usually bad Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 29

Create dashboards Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 30

Familiar? Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 31

http://visualcomplexity.com/vc/ Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 32

APIs = cool Who knew? Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 33

Forces clean interfaces Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 34

Regression testing Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 35

Beware abuse Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 36

Track usage carefully Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 37

I heart (clean) URLs Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 38

Never break me Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 39

Careful of middle tiers Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 40

Don’t navigate by URL Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 41

Don’t expose auto-incs Maybe Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 42

/noun/verb/ ! Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 43

Hiring people is tough Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 44

Good people have jobs Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 45

Giving notice Moving house Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 46

Older the product, Longer the induction Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 47

Documents saved my life Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 48

Release early Release often Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 49

Under construction! Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 50

Perpetual beta Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 51

Small increments Visible progress Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 52

Less moving parts Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 53

Lightweight QA No safety net Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 54

Own the process Not the feature Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 55

Avoid branches Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 56

Shared development Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 57

No developer Is an island Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 58

Have good tools Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 59

One touch deploy Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 60

Automate everything Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 61

Many tools Componentize! Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 62

Always deployable agile Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 63

Pragmatic Make it work Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 64

Beautiful code Not a priority Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 65

Disclaimers • This stuff wont work everywhere • Takes the right people and process • Like XP, it doesn’t start working until you do it all • But then it pays off Web Apps Summit, 13-14th September 2006 66

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