In my new job as Director of Engineering at 25Lux.com, I’ve been dealing with a lot of the infrastructure parts of development that I mostly glossed over before because I always worked at a company that had everything set up for me. It’s a good chance to think about in what kind of environment I’d really like to develop.
It turns out that big part of my answer involves automating everything. Part of my reasoning is that our team is very small now, so the more we automate, the more we can concentrate on just development. Another part of my reasoning is that I’ve read a lot about continuous deployment lately and many of the principles like decreasing the time between developing a hypothesis and learning your answer make sense and can only be achieved through extensive automation. Read the rest of this entry »
