The Business of Laravel Continuous Deployment and Continuous People Growth | Greg Skerman, DoT at iseekplant
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Aug 6, 2024 In this discussion, Greg Skerman, the Director of Technology at iSeekplant, shares his insights on the unique challenges in tech leadership within the construction industry. He highlights the balance of scaling technology alongside nurturing people, emphasizing soft skills and open-mindedness. Greg discusses the advantages of frequent deployments for risk mitigation and staff retention. He also offers advice for future leaders, stressing community engagement and mentorship as key to professional growth.
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Legacy System at iseekplant
- Greg Skerman joined iseekplant when it used Laravel 4 overlaid on a legacy database.
- This created challenges like Hungarian notation and suboptimal relationships, leading to a progressive rewrite.
SOA for People Scaling
- Service-oriented architecture (SOA) isn't about technical scaling but people scaling.
- SOA allows teams to work independently and experiment in isolated services.
Experimentation with Inertia and DDD
- iseekplant experimented with InertiaJS in one service before adopting it company-wide.
- They also tried domain-driven Laravel, but decided against wider adoption.