Behind the scenes at 37signals: Sysadmin and development
Written by on November 29th, 2007 in Ajax News.
This is the third in a series of posts showing how we use Campfire as our virtual office. All screenshots shown are from real usage and were taken during one week in September.
This time we’ll take a look at how Campfire is an integral part of our sysadmin and development efforts.
Discover and fix a code failure
Whenever someone checks in a piece of code, CIA (Continous Integration Agent) automatically runs our test suites and reports on any failed tests.
Analyze a server problem
David and Mark discuss a server issue.
Subversion shows changes to the code
Subversion tracks changes Ryan recently uploaded. Jason offers kudos on the copy edit made.
Tell everyone about a server change
Sam deploys changes to Backpack and details what was changed.
Prep the rollout of a new feature
The team discusses server performance and the best way to roll out a new feature.
Share server analytics
Mark and David discuss median response times.
Find out when a domain will update
Jason posts a domain status screen and asks Mark when it will update.
Related:
Behind the scenes at 37signals: Design
Behind the scenes at 37signals: Coding
Coming soon: How we use Campfire for copywriting, customer support, and more.
Source: Signal vs. Noise
Original Article: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/721-behind-the-scenes-at-37signals-sysadmin-and-development