howaboutwe presentation - ruby dev stackup - the flatiron school
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HowAboutWe's presentation from the Ruby Dev Stackup hosted at The Flatiron School on 5/6TRANSCRIPT
You & MeHow it was built
Company Overview• HowAboutWe Dating
• HowAboutWe Couples
• iOS & Android for Dating
• You&Me for iOS
• Blogs
• 20 Developers
• 4 Teams
• Strong Collaborative Culture
What is You&Me?
What is You&Me?• 1:1 Messaging for Couples
• Tons of sharing features
• Extensive editing and customization
• Fun ways to share moments
So… What Does That Mean• Halfsies!
• Take one half of a photo and your partner takes the other half
• Photobooths!
• Old-timey but digital!
• Videos!
• Vine-style
• Voice Messages
• Walkie-talkie style
So… What Does That Mean• Secrets!
• For sensitive content…
• Songs!
• The whole Rdio and Spotify libraries
• Photos!
• A whole suite of stickers, filters, fonts, and other editing features
• … and more!
Dev Challenges• Communication
• Long Feedback loops
• Documentation
Documentation• At first:
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• which returned:
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• We can do better….
Documentation• rspec_api_documentation
• raddocs
• apitome
Documentation
Future Iterations
Post Structure
• Tabular
• 500,000 messages in 4 days.
• Very write heavy - caching is done on the client
• Can shard
• Looking at other solutions other than MySql
Web Sockets• Originally built to support “…”
• Last online at
• Read Receipts
• Offline/Online Access
• Uses em-websocket
• which uses event-machine
Separate apps - BEFORE
Couples
Y&M
API
Separate apps - After
Couples You & Me API API
“We believe that modern love is based on shared experiences, choice and openness. We build incredible products that enable people to leverage technology to seek, find and stay in love.”
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Thank you
VP of Engineering [email protected]
Andrew Watkins Lead iOS
Jerry WongLead iOS
James
http://couples.howaboutwe.com/youandme