So you're starting a startup an need best practices for your engineering team. Well, look for: 1. Versionning 2. Branching and Pull Requests (GitHub Flow) 3. Deployment & Continuous Delivery 4. Rollback Strategies 5. Testing 6. Backups 7. Monitoring 8. Communication 9. Issue Tracker / Project Management This deck talks about the tool used by Le Wagon and startup coached by Le Wagon. Le Wagon is the French innovating coding school for entrepreneurs. More info on https://www.lewagon.com

1. Technical Workflow
(for a startup)
@ssaunier

2. Context

3. Lean Startup

4. a
is a
formed to
for a
and
Startup
temporary organization
search
repeatable
scalable
business model
Steve Blank, 2010

5. Disclaimer: no « best » method, find the one that works for you

7. Versionning

8. Timeline

11. How to read a repo
- Contributors
- Commits
- The Code

12. Branching &
Pull Requests

13. GitHub Flow
- https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/index.html
- http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html
Let’s look at the

14. Create a branch

15. Work and Commit

16. Open a Pull Request

17. Discuss and Review

18. Merge

20. Commit Graph

21. Live Code
github.com/lewagon/www/issues

22. What next?

23. Deployment

25. « Anything in the master branch is
deployable »
- Scott Chacon, 2011

26. master changed

27. Your laptop GitHub
Heroku
repo repo
repo
push
push

28. Automated
Deployment

29. a tool to
at
of the
automatically deploy
every change
master branch

31. becomes the "Ship" button

32. Ship Often

34. What if you break
something?

35. Rollback!

37. Testing

40. +
TravisCI automatically test
every commit pushed on
every branch

43. Continuous Delivery
Now we have

44. « The key test is that a business sponsor
could request that the current development
version of the software can be deployed into
production at a moment's notice - and
nobody would bat an eyelid, let alone
panic. »
- Martin Fowler, 2013

45. Advantages
- Reduced Deployment Risk
- Real Progress (Done)
- User Feedback

46. What if I have
a Database?

47. Backups

48. Rollback Data!

49. heroku pg:backups schedule DATABASE_URL --at '02:00 Europe/London'
heroku pg:backups restore b111
heroku pg:backups
=== Backups
ID Backup Time Status Size Database
---- ------------------------- ---------------------------------- ------ --------
b013 2015-03-18 19:03:16 +0000 Running IVORY
b011 2015-02-18 17:55:38 +0000 Finished 2015-02-18 17:55:39 +0000 1.9GB IVORY
b010 2015-02-17 19:14:43 +0000 Finished 2015-02-17 19:14:48 +0000 1.9GB IVORY
b004 2015-02-11 19:00:55 +0000 Finished 2015-02-17 19:14:48 +0000 1.9GB IVORY
==== Restores
ID Restore Time Status Size Database
---- ------------------------- ---------------------------------- ------ --------
r002 2015-03-16 17:33:19 +0000 Finished 2015-03-16 17:33:19 +0000 1.9GB IVORY
r001 2015-03-15 12:13:44 +0000 Failed 2015-03-15 12:13:47 +0000 1.7GB IVORY

50. Monitoring

54. Tools

56. Issue Tracker /
Project Management
Embrace Simplicity

57. Issues

61. Advices from a Developer
- Resist Meta-Work
- Avoid Meetings
- Write everything
- Embrace Asynchronicity
- Don’t pull me from The
Zone

62. Thank you!
@ssaunier

63. Photo Credits
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/betsyweber/6719452305
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/iamted7/11697845826
• https://octodex.github.com/codercat/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/msankar/8133893440/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/107342453@N02/10614978976/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/katedowding/4847072561/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticmadness/4109705161
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/nancyandwayne/5361008419/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/tamdong/4740575064/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/electrofreeze/5361172656/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/trayay/2255153547/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/eurocontrol/5240845216/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/36247316@N00/3108399560/