I'm the engineering lead of Google Santa Tracker (on the web), a holiday-themed experience for everyone. The team is made up of 20%-ers (a concept ...
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Wow, fascinating read. Incredibly honest assessment.
I think it's awesome that the Chrome/Chromium team uses dev.to as a blogging platform! I really appreciate all of your work, and I really like the post. Technical debt is something that's pretty hard to overcome and it's interesting to hear how you tackled it!
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Great story. Reminds me a bit of our journey to get the iOS app out the door, albeit at a much different scale, technically and corporately.
Identifying and Mitigating the Ninety-Ninety Rule in Software Development
Ben Halpern
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. Santa Tracker, the web experience, is the work of many people over ten years.
Now, I know the reason why there are no Santa Tracker Developer day in 2018 in Chrome Devs Youtube channel. I can't wait your team rebuilt santa tracker with lit-html next year. 😍
Yup, I was... busy :)
We do think lit and a new design has tangible benefits too. It should be more performant. But that's a small improvement not worth missing whole parts of the site for!
Great engineering story, Sam.