pivotal labs lunch talk; 3 infrastructure and workflow lessons learned at an early stage startup
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Rainforest QA Lunch talk:!3 Infrastructure + workflow
lessons learned at an early-stage startup
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Rainforest
Human powered QA SaaS
Designed for ‘Continuous QA’
Built for PMs and Developers
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Us
Team of 3 in SoMa
All developers
YC S12
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3 Infrastructure + workflow lessons learned
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#1: Mongo isn’t right for!early-stage SaaS
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(Aside: we 💖 Mongo)
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Why?
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Transactions
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Transactions -> Less junk
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Migrations
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Adhoc queries
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<3 window functions
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Joins
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#2: QueueClassic > Resque!for simplicity
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Why?
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Less moving parts
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Transactions
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#3: Use your own product!(aka dogfooding)
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Find your users’ pain!before they do
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Goal:!Rainforest + Continuous Delivery
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push
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push -> circle
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push -> circle -> rainforest
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push -> circle -> rainforest -> prod
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Rainforest tests fail = no deploy
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Step 1: Built CLI client
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Step 2: Put in build process
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#1 - add gem!#2 - add to circle.yml
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Our Extreme Dogfooding rules
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#1 Make it disruptive
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#2 Fix it quickly
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#3 Don’t cheat
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Current state:
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full continuous delivery
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< 20 mins to test
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in 5 browsers
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> 60 people
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~9.5 hours of testing in ~20 min
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we run 5-10 x per day
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Conclusion
Simpler = better
Transactions = better
Use your own product = better product
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Questions?@rainforestqa
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