The document outlines strategies for optimizing the development process, addressing frequent problems such as ignoring patterns and repetitive tasks. It emphasizes improvements through process productization, promoting quality and innovation, and engaging teams with collaboration. The document also suggests identifying opportunities for automation and utilizing tools to enhance productivity and efficiency.

1. Optimizing your
development process
Rafael Corrêa Gomes

2. Rafael Corrêa Gomes
󰞵 Technology Director at
🏆 Magento Master 2018
💡2x Innovations Lab
⚡Open source contributor

3. Summary
1. Frequent problems
2. Improvements
3. Identifying and validating
opportunities
4. Tools

4. 1
Frequent
problems

5. 1. Ignoring patterns in
the process.
Most repetitive ones:
- Deploys
- Local setup
- Share knowledge

6. 2. Repeating steps
every time
- Get used to repeat manually steps
- Think it’s more secure
- Training people to do machine work

7. 3. Smart and resilient
code
- Easy to change
- Code that predicts changes
- Not reinvent the wheel
- Internal modules
- Plug and play

8. 4. Check the symptoms
- Save logs
- New Relic
- How to detect it?

9. 5. Strategic analysis
- Create an action plan
- Setup a monitoring system
- Could it be delegated?
- Share knowledge
- Share roadblocks

10. 2
Improvements

11. 1. Optimizations
- More quality
- More strategic tasks
- Fun tools

12. 2. Turn processes into
products
- Consolidate knowledge
- Improving developer experience
- Ready to use
- Reduce the learning curve

13. 3. Focus on quality and
innovation
- Extra time dedicated to efficiency
- Benefits to the team and clients
- Easier to identify weak points

14. 4. Helping your team
and community
- Solving frequent problems
- Receive collaborations and feedbacks

15. 3
Identifying and
validating
opportunities

17. 1. Critical analysis of
repetitive processes
- Most repetitive and critical process
- Common task in your team
- Easy to apply

18. 2. Proof of concept
- Notes during execution
- Test locally
- Apply in a small project
- Automate it more
- Setup in more projects

19. 3. Turn it in an
internal project
- Internal meeting to purpose the solution
- Show the benefits
- Test plan
- Training and engaging the team

20. 4. Share or sell it
- Internal product (module, integration, saas)
- Open Source (company or personal)

21. 4
Tools

22. Critical issue
- Forgot commands
- Specific commands
- Repetitive process
- Running unnecessary commands
- Developers run it differently
- Long downtime
- Harder rollback
- Expensive pipelines

23. Code snippet
- Apply it today
- Speed
- Consistency
- x Can be faster
- x Can be more dev friendly
- x Not resilient
- x Not integrated

25. 1. Deployer Recipe

29. 2. Docker

31. 3. Pipelines

32. 4. Code Snippets - Cacher

33. Magento +
Pipelines +
Deployer

34. Magento +
Pipelines +
Deployer

35. Thanks
github.com/rafaelstz
rafaelcg.com