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International Ember Upgrades: Matthias Leitner and Hector Zarco at Runtastic
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We talk about upgrading Ember apps, transitions from Rails to Ember, running a multinational team from Austria, and handling performance on mobile.
- Runtastic
- Hector and Matthias here with us today
- located in Linz Austria- 3rd largest city in Austria
- International team- they’ve got HQs in Linz and Vienna, employ people in 25 different countries
- Some people join specifically so they can write Ember code
- Going to Ember
- They first started using Ember in 2012
- Started by integrating them into existing Ruby on Rails application to replace jQuery code
- Slowly switching to more Ember-only apps with ember-cli
- Had to do a big rewrite in the past before Ember due to adding features without thought (The Startup Story)
- Multiple Ember apps
- Because they “sprinkled in” Ember at first, they have more separate Ember apps than they want and are wanting to merge several together.
- They bundle the vendor for all their Ember apps separately so that it can be cached- save download time for users.
- They can deploy each Ember app independently, using a hand-built version of ember-cli-deploy (they built it before the addon)
- Community
- Finding time to contribute back to open source is a struggle, but they do it when they can
- fairly good Javascript community for the size (200k people in Linz, 40 people in a Javascript meetup)
- They’re hiring!
- Personal journeys to Ember
- Upgrades and Addons
- People who start with backbone almost inevitably need more
- They had to develop some stuff early on like QueryParams and improvements to the Router (they’re using the defaults now)
- The upgrade path to 2.0 has been difficult because of large apps and abandoned third-party addons
- They’re trying not to use alpha addons because of all the difficulties they’re having now
- Dependency have been difficult due to addons sometimes not specifying well enough
- They used shrinkwrap for a while, but it was more trouble than it was worth (and now addon authors are better about dependencies)
- Stories from the old days
- Had to look up the source code a lot
- Addons have made things so much better!
- Current version of pods have problems in large organizations, upcoming new version of pods will be awesome!
- Internal code sharing
- Mobile apps built natively, switching some non-core parts to webviews with Ember
- Once again, they’re hiring! Austria is "so beautiful it’s hard to explain in words".
- Performance:
- Android is where most of the trouble is
- Reduce blocking stuff, extraneous requests, css complexity
- Sponsored by EmberScreencasts.com
9 episodes
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Manage episode 174469846 series 1403018
Content provided by Happy Programmer LLC and Jeffrey Biles. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Happy Programmer LLC and Jeffrey Biles or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
We talk about upgrading Ember apps, transitions from Rails to Ember, running a multinational team from Austria, and handling performance on mobile.
- Runtastic
- Hector and Matthias here with us today
- located in Linz Austria- 3rd largest city in Austria
- International team- they’ve got HQs in Linz and Vienna, employ people in 25 different countries
- Some people join specifically so they can write Ember code
- Going to Ember
- They first started using Ember in 2012
- Started by integrating them into existing Ruby on Rails application to replace jQuery code
- Slowly switching to more Ember-only apps with ember-cli
- Had to do a big rewrite in the past before Ember due to adding features without thought (The Startup Story)
- Multiple Ember apps
- Because they “sprinkled in” Ember at first, they have more separate Ember apps than they want and are wanting to merge several together.
- They bundle the vendor for all their Ember apps separately so that it can be cached- save download time for users.
- They can deploy each Ember app independently, using a hand-built version of ember-cli-deploy (they built it before the addon)
- Community
- Finding time to contribute back to open source is a struggle, but they do it when they can
- fairly good Javascript community for the size (200k people in Linz, 40 people in a Javascript meetup)
- They’re hiring!
- Personal journeys to Ember
- Upgrades and Addons
- People who start with backbone almost inevitably need more
- They had to develop some stuff early on like QueryParams and improvements to the Router (they’re using the defaults now)
- The upgrade path to 2.0 has been difficult because of large apps and abandoned third-party addons
- They’re trying not to use alpha addons because of all the difficulties they’re having now
- Dependency have been difficult due to addons sometimes not specifying well enough
- They used shrinkwrap for a while, but it was more trouble than it was worth (and now addon authors are better about dependencies)
- Stories from the old days
- Had to look up the source code a lot
- Addons have made things so much better!
- Current version of pods have problems in large organizations, upcoming new version of pods will be awesome!
- Internal code sharing
- Mobile apps built natively, switching some non-core parts to webviews with Ember
- Once again, they’re hiring! Austria is "so beautiful it’s hard to explain in words".
- Performance:
- Android is where most of the trouble is
- Reduce blocking stuff, extraneous requests, css complexity
- Sponsored by EmberScreencasts.com
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