Making a Continuous Deployment Model Succeed
So I’m not going to go into the specifics of what a continuous delivery model is or what it’s supposed to do. I wanted to talk about what I felt could make a continuous delivery model succeed.
We Need Front End Developers!
Are you a front end developer? We need kickass rockstar front end guys (or girls) to come help us out at Ancestry.com. We are a big company, with great revenue that really is engineer focused.
Lots of great perks that you would get at a startup and we’re located in the tech hub of South Park area in San Francisco (think TechCrunch, Github, Yammer, Splunk, etc)
Check out the opening here and let me know if interested.
GitHub for Mac
Very cool.
Amazon Web Services Summit 2011
I attended the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit 2011 yesterday in San Francisco and had a good time. I thought it might be a bit introductory but I actually gained some insight on new services that are being used by companies in a very successful way.
The theme of the talks was definitely cloud and scalability. I had the change to talk with CEO and founder of Optimizely which is an AB test tool which looks very promising and I definitely want to make use of such as great tool which runs on top of Amazon web services.
Even though I’ve made heavy use of other AWS services I have a clear picture of Amazons direction and how well they really listen to their customers!
WCF WebSockets
Update: I have moved the code snippets to a Github gist because of design constraints of my blog. It’s better that way ;)
So one of my new hobbies is using Node.js, which is an uber awesome event driven server side JavaScript engine (whew). Anyway, I hit a point where I wanted to use Node.js with WCF and was thinking how I would be able to interact with my service layer (WCF) to send asynchronous events back to the client in a similiar manner that Node.js does.
WCF WebSockets Prototype
Microsoft has released a prototype which gives initial support for WebSockets, pretty damn cool. Check it out here. Effectively you can now do something like this:
So with some magic, and a few lines of code you can quickly create a WCF host that will listen for connections via an HTML 5 WebSocket and echo back the value. Neat, huh? Now a quick demo of a client.
With Microsoft releasing IE9 today, we’re one step closer to all browsers supporting these insanely cool HTML 5 features.
Hey SF. (Taken with Instagram at 4th & King Muni Metro Station)
Breakdown for 2011
Since 2010 was not the greatest of years, I’m really looking forward to 2011. I think I’ve had better luck with odd years so I want to do my annual post of resolutions. Since I haven’t imported my original wordpress blog here yet I don’t have the original list to mark off what I’ve done. Once I do I’ll re-update this post.
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Fully embed myself in unit testing as much as possible - Bring innovative ideas to my new job
- Begin exercising daily
- Go to burning man
- Write a project using jQuery + MongoDB + NodeJS and push it live
- Pay off my financial dues completely
Be more positive
For now, these are my high priority items but I will update this post as I think of more.
Officially Moved
Today we officially moved all of our goods from Fresno and handed in the key. Here’s to the future and a great 2011.
What I’ve Been Up To in San Francisco
So I’ve transplanted here to San Francisco for the past two weeks so far, and I have to say it’s been a pretty exciting two weeks.
I started my new job at Ancestry.com and everyone there is friendly and talented. We just had our christmas party and I got to know some more coworkers I had yet to officially meet. I also got moved into my new loft which is much smaller than the apartment in Fresno but fits well.
This city is pretty amazing, with the amount of life and energy of people really wanting to get things done. Sure, I have to step over a few homeless on my walk to work each day but I don’t mind.
The next couple weeks I’m going to spend some additional time getting more locked in to unit testing, mocking and some other experimental things I want to research that I could present to our team eventually.
