Ymir Report #89 ā Tackling technical debt š§š·āāļø
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Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO So September has come and gone! It's been really busy, but not in a publicly visible way. There isn't much I can share or talk about yet so this will be a shorter update. For example, I'm working very hard on the Ymir CLI. But unfortunately, the technical debt there has really caught up to me. So a lot of the work is still ongoing, I'll talk about it a bit more in the product section. I'm also speaking at WordCamp Canada in a few weeks on serverless! I'm also excited to meet up with some people I haven't seen in a long time. Otherwise, everything is pretty much unchanged on the business front. PRODUCT You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog. So adding Laravel support to the Ymir CLI has basically become rewriting a large amount of the CLI. This wasn't something I anticipated. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but, as I got to work on it, it became clear that the technical debt had to be paid now. The Ymir CLI codebase is quite large. It's 20,000 lines with essentially no testing. The "no testing" has bothered me for a while. I even tried to do a livestream to add testing. There's also a lot of hardcoded logic especially in the ymir init command. The architecture is poor because I don't have experience building a CLI tool of this size. There was just no way what I'd done so far would carry me beyond 20,000 lines. So here we are, I'm doing a rewrite of essentially every command. It's been a slow methodical process of planning the architecture, slowly building it out, evolving it as we convert commands and run into new use cases. I then want to add tests to everything. It's a lot and I'm hoping I can wrap it up in October. But it's looking like a busy month, so we'll see what happens. MARKETING Nothing much to share here right now. I'll be at WordCamp Canada next month to talk about serverless. It's also looking pretty likely I'll be at CloudFest USA in November as well. BUSINESS You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes. Pretty quiet this month. I talked to another Laravel Vapor customer this month. Waiting to see if they decide to use the product or not. Carl |
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Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO Slowly getting back into the groove of things. I'm not working as hard as before the burnout. I still have days where I work for an hour and that fries my brain. I still get the itch to work on the product though! So I've been just doing smaller chunks of work. That still lets me ship things like PostgreSQL support! PRODUCT You can always view the history of...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. This isn't the hundredth report I was planning to write. I wrote my previous report so sure I was close to the finish line of moving off Vapor. I was so happy that I'd nail the timing. The title wrote itself, "Ymir Report #100 ā Ymir on Ymir". (That's a lot of "Ymir" in the same sentence! š¤£) But life is nothing but full of irony. The day after I sent that report, my...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO Been a little while since the last report! Unfortunately, not much has happened since the last update. I got a pretty nasty cold that knocked me out for more than a week. I then had to shift to consulting work to pay my bills. š Following the consulting work, I flew out to Phoenix for PressConf. I'll talk more about it later. But Raquel created an exceptional...