Katana

We chose CloudAMQP because it suited better for the job - being a message broker between microservices. Also, it keeps message states and has a good UX.

The drawbacks of this decision are hypothetical, it is said that RabbitMQ scales better vertically, we are consuming it as service via CloudAMQP so, they will take care of this.

Sometimes #ad-blocking addons can cause a real headache when working with JavaScript apps. Onboarding assistants (Appcues + elevio ), chat (Intercom) and product usage insight (Hotjar) have all landed on their blacklists. I guess there is a perfectly good reason for this that I just don't know.

In order to fix this, we had to set up our own content delivery service. We chose Amazon CloudFront and Amazon S3 to do the job because it has a good synergy with Heroku PaaS we are already using.

As a new company we could early adopt and bet on #RemoteTeam setup without cultural baggage derailing us. Our building blocks for developing remote working culture are:

• Hiring people who are self sufficient, self-disciplined and excel at video and written communication to work remotely
• Set up periodic ceremonies ( #DailyStandup, #Grooming, @{Release}|topic:1491| calls and chats etc) to keep the company rhythm / heartbeat going across remote cells
• Regularly train your leaders to take into account remote working aspects of organizing f2f calls, events, meetups, parties etc. when communicating and organizing workflows
• And last, but not least - select the right tools to support effective communication and collaboration:

1. All feeds and conversations come together in @{Slack}|tool:675|
2. @{#Agile}|topic:531| workflows in @{Jira}|tool:154|
3. @{InProductCommunication}|topic:1492| and @{#CustomerSupportChat}|topic:66| in @{Intercom}|tool:257|
4. @{#Notes}|topic:1488|, @{#Documentation}|topic:404| and @{#Requirements}|topic:1495| in @{Confluence}|tool:769|
5. @{#SourceCode}|topic:1489| and @{ContinuousDelivery}|topic:1493| in @{Bitbucket}|tool:28|
6. Persistent video streams between locations, demos, meetings run on @{appear.in}|tool:2300|
7. @{#Logging}|topic:1490| and @{Alerts}|topic:1494| in @{Papertrail}|tool:82|

Back at early 2017 the confusion and controversy around the future of AngularJS was at full swing. Also, the Angular 2 looked quite restrictive (or prescriptive even) when we did the assessment what to choose for Katana. React came out on top because it's community looked healthier, future more solid. And as you all know, one decision leads to many others: Redux, redux-saga , Axios