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Admin Your Appor Why Internal Tools Matter
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Hi. I’m Mike. (Michael Sean Becker)
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Content Engineering
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I’d like to tell you a story
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2012
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Initial Build
• Rails for backend and frontend
• Active Admin
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Then RailsConf 2012 Happened
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The Ecosystem
• Smaller systems that talk to each other
• API Endpoints that served both Web and Mobile
• and…..
• Active Admin in the same spot as before
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We modified our architecture, but didn’t update how we dealt with internal tools.
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• Admin wasn’t updated
• Content creators were blocked
• Engineers had to begin updating content
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That brings us to 2014
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Principles
• API driven
• Testable
• Trackable
• Administrable
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Our new goals
• Internal users deserve good tools
• Treat our data as content and not rows in a spreadsheet
• Admin tools need to be easy to add to and extend by other developers
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Internal Products and Tools can be as important as the ones you build for your customers
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The Plan
• Small, reusable libraries for common functionality
• Done with Ember Components when possible
• Consolidated code
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The Other Side
• Use an establish CMS
• Fix Active Admin installation
• Use our admin tools to experiment with new technology
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What next?
• Building our admin tools from scratch
• Start moving features over one at a time
• Starting with moving the blog into our ecosystem
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Things we need to solve
• Isolating feature code
• Bower to make admin sections
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Thank You
@michaelsbeckerwww.michaelseanbecker.com