2017-11-02 Meeting Notes

Date

02 Nov 2017

Time	Item	Who	Notes
10 min	Status	Everyone
30 min	Asset compilation audit	Dave Ormsbee	Asset Compilation Audit 2017-11-01
15 min	Andy parting wisdom

In collectstatic (static_optimize.py) the biggest timesink is the RequireJS optimizer, which can/should be moved to webpack.
Lowest hanging fruit?
- Consolidate JS files across themes
- Extract and isolate vendor JS
- Investigate "ideal" Bootstrap CSS compile time
- Fix Webpack config extraction process. Shared config in a single place for both Django and Webpack?
  - Sticking point here: Studio static files logic/git hash cachebuster
Devops motivation (Fred Smith (Deactivated))
- Green/blue deployments require cookie routing logic around static assets. This can lead to broken CSS, JS, etc.
- Immediate goal: push assets to S3 at build time, serve from there instead of from the app servers
- Factor asset builds out of the AMI build process, parallelize asset build with AMI build
- AMI builds 21 minutes, asset building >50% of that
- devDependencies vs prodDependencies
- Duplicate versions of all assets (md5 vs non-md5 filenames)
- Cloudflare vs. Cloudfront
  - Aggressively cached
  - Sometimes assets 404
- Can we build/package vendor JS separately, since it changes less frequently?
  - Do we need to build fonts? :x

Teams work fast but it's hard to make far reaching decisions!
- OEPs help a lot; formalize process or technology changes
- Let's write an OEP for decoupled frontend?
- Another one for isomorphic JS?
Constant communication!!!!
- Don't let people think projects are dead
How do we get people to learn stuff? Communicate more often?
- Devops struggles with this as well
  - Lunch & learns
  - All hands meetings
  - Turnover!!!
- Support from higher up?