LBi Denmark asked me to stop by their internal event called "We do our own stunts", to talk a bit about Podio.
In the context of doing stunts I thought the evolution of the Podio front-end stack would be a great fit. At Podio we have been through a big technical transition. We migrated our technical foundation, the whole frontend stack from PHP to Ruby, while we continued to itirate and release new features in our product.
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Podio's air-bourne stunt.
This was a bold decision and atypical for a startup in the early stage, something rarely see. We didn't have 6 months to set aside for refactoring. Instead we choose to tacle this from a different perspective: This was the perfect opportunity to review all the features in the product. With this opportunity in our hands, the flow as actually straight forward. Everytime we added or improved a feature, we implemented it in the new code-base, and made the transition completely transparant to our users.
Our goals with this project was to ensure a solid techinical platform that would enable us to keep our team productive, while growing, nad to ensure a foundation to deliver the best experience to our users.
This was the "Podio air-bourne stunt". One hell of a trans-atlantic flight.
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Read more about the project in the slides, <a href="http://auchenberg.github.com/podio-frontend-stack-evolution">Podio Frontend Stack Evolution</a>