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Aaron Chambers | Ember CLI Deploy and Immutable Deployments

Episode Summary

Aaron is the author and co-maintainer of the popular Ember addon, EmberCLI Deploy, which has become the defacto addon for shipping Ember applications. He has spent the past 5 years evolving deployment patterns for JS web applications to allow faster shipping with more confidence, using patterns such as parallel deployments that leverage tools such as Redis. By day, Aaron is a tech lead at Phorest where he helps lead the development of their salon management software built in Ember.js and loves to ship at 4pm on Fridays :)

Episode Notes

Aaron is the author and co-maintainer of the popular Ember addon, EmberCLI Deploy, which has become the defacto addon for shipping Ember applications. He has spent the past 5 years evolving deployment patterns for JS web applications to allow faster shipping with more confidence, using patterns such as parallel deployments that leverage tools such as Redis. By day, Aaron is a tech lead at Phorest where he helps lead the development of their salon management software built in Ember.js and loves to ship at 4pm on Fridays :)

• “What do you do?” (1:25)
• “What is Ember?” (1:53)
• “What is Ember CLI deploy?” (3:35)
  • Multiple versions of app
• “What inspired you to create it?” “4:30”
  • Team member saw it used at square
  • Web server looks for parameter
• “What are patterns are you interested in these days?” (10:40)
  • Immutable deployments – normal on the backend, but not normal on the front end
• “Where do you use Redis?” (12:35)
• “S3 (assets), CDN & Redis (store links, version to files in Redis)” (15:10)
• “Patterns to make dev easy” (14:35)
  • Javascript
  • CSS
  • Images
• “Parallel Deployments” (19:15)
• “How do you integrate with other app code?” (20:00)

RELATED LINKS:

https://twitter.com/grandazz

https://cli.emberjs.com/release/basic-use/deploying/#emberclideploy

https://immutablewebapps.org

https://www.phorest.com