Tag: platforms

1. WOW I HAVEN’T BLOGGED IN A WHILE

• hahaha funny ironic meta blogging joke

2. okay so i’m the Tech Lead of the FT.com Platforms Team now, what’s up with that

• my(!) team solves common developer problems so every other team can spend time doing not that
• we own a lot of stuff, like seventy repositories out of the three hundred ish in the Customer Products group
• we’re a fairly new team, there were predecessor teams but basically none of the knowledge about what we own has survived
• we’ve got a lot of catching up to do! we started rewriting our documentation last year and we have a hitlist of what knowledge we’re missing
• but also we’ve jumped in the deep end with a beeg rewrite of the FT.com developer tooling
  • the line i use in presentations is “they’re used literally every day by literally every developer in Customer Products, and they’re broken”
  • they’re actually public, that’s odd
    • n-gage
    • n-heroku-tools
  • this week is the second “mob programming” week we’ve done on this project
    • we cancelled all our meetings
    • we set some goals
    • we worked on VS Code Live Share (for a couple of hours at a time! pairing is exhausting, remote pairing is gggggggggggg)
    • we’ve written more than a thousand fucking lines of code with three developers in one week, what the heck
  • find out next time on dragonball z