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 [email protected]
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