Raul Barroso talking about working at Heroku, at the #tenerifetechandbiz end of 2013 special event

2. Raúl Barroso
www.raulbarroso.com
Engineer

6. So, what’s Heroku?
● It's a platform that makes deployments easy.
Traditionally this was hard.
● Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of
their time on their application code, not
managing servers, deployment, ongoing
operations, or scaling.
● And much more.

7. Developer productivity
● Why require 3 steps when 1 will do?
● Why require any action at all when zero steps
will do?

8. source: dangerismyfirstname.com

9. Agility
● How fast you can publish your application,
how fast you can change it
● We believe that a deployment platform’s
workflow and experience should be designed
No surprises
Our first concern is your happiness.

10. Our happiness
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<3 Vibe Team
Wellness (Yoga, Meditation, Gym…)
Weeks off
Conferences
Remote work
Beer club
(http://starving-samurai-42.tumblr.com/archive)

11. Feel productive

14. Makers day
“As Heroku has grown, meetings have increased,
and the value of Maker Day’s has increased
exponentially.” - Craig Kerstiens

15. Methodology

16. Small teams
● Operates much like an individual entity
(multidisciplinary)
● Chooses its own tools and best method for
communication
● Ownership
● Rotations

17. Starter projects
Change roles inside the company.
Pick your battle.

18. New hires
Not an HR, this goes to the hiring manager
(usually an engineer).

19. Communication
● Mailing lists (announcements@, discussion@,
fun@, concerts@, sf@, api@)...
● GitHub
● Trello
● Campfire/Hipchat/Slack

20. Avoid context switching
(preserve quality)

21. Mostly asynchronous but also
● 1:1(s)
● Offsites
● Stand ups
● Meetings

22. All hands & Workshops

24. Happiness & Trust
Nothing is more powerful than a community of
talented people motivated to succeed.

25. Even playing Dodgeball

26. Muchas gracias
www.raulbarroso.com
We’re hiring!
jobs.heroku.com

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