We discuss transitioning from Rails to Ember, how Khorus is improving transparency and communication within teams, and how testing is used when failure states including catching on fire.
- Chris Bonser- before Ember
- Programming professionally for 11 years
- Started out with Electrical Engineering/hardware
- Learned Ruby by building test equipment
- We heard you like tests, so we’re testing the code that tests the equipment that tests the microchips
- Stuff could literally catch on fire, something which actually happened while he was in the factory
- Ember
- Been doing Ember about 2 years
- Started at Khorus right after they had chosen Ember
- Went to Khorus partly because they were using Ember (Employers, take note)
- Khorus chose Ember because it was well-liked amongst Rails devs
- Transitioning from Rails to Ember
- The transition was difficult because Ember (and especially Ember Data) were in flux, and acceptance testing was difficult
- Many of those troubles have gone away, and acceptance testing is easier
- The world doesn’t stop during a rewrite :-/
- The transition took a year because there was also a redesign and several added features
- 3 devs + a few contractors, very lean for the size of the app they’re creating
- Benefits of using Ember
- Conventions
- Private addons- pulling parts of main out to share between other apps
- Public addons- we all know and love these
- Khorus
- Helps their customers be the best-run companies on earth
- Help set strategy, culture, talent management, etc.
- This is a new software category
- Strategy- setting quarterly goals, then getting weekly feedback from employees and then using that to adjust
- Helps coordinate different goals between departments and levels, to share knowledge and predict (and mitigate) failure cascades
- Takes into account human intuition at each level
- Ember Data has been really helpful in working with all this data
- They’re dogfooding it within Khorus, has been helpful even though they’re small
- Helpful to be able to look at different team’s status, increases transparency and collaboration
- They’re hiring!
- Ember + Rails ideal
- Looking for a range of experience, willing to provide some training
- Small team, you’ll have a big impact
- Email careers@khorus.com
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