Talks
Speakers
Events
Topics
Sign in
Home
Talks
Speakers
Events
Topics
Leaderboard
Use
Analytics
Sign in
Suggest modification to this talk
Title
Description
Chanko provides a simple framework for rapidly and safely prototyping new features in your production Rails app, and exposing these prototypes to specified segments of your user base. With Chanko, you can release many concurrent features and independently manage which users see them. If there are errors with any chanko, it will be automatially removed, without impacting your site. Chanko was extracted from Cookpad.com where the team uses it daily to test new features live, in production, on the largest Rails site in Japan which serves 500 million page views a month to a user based of over 15 million highly engaged uses.
Date
Summarized using AI?
If this talk's summary was generated by AI, please check this box. A "Summarized using AI" badge will be displayed in the summary tab to indicate that the summary was generated using AI.
Show "Summarized using AI" badge on summary page
Summary
Markdown supported
In this presentation, Kenta Murata discusses Chanko, a framework developed at Cookpad to facilitate safe and rapid prototyping of new features in production Rails applications. The primary focus is on how Cookpad manages to test various concurrent features safely, obtain real user feedback, and ensure high-quality code without disrupting the production environment. Key points covered include: - **Introduction to Chanko**: Originally developed by Cookpad, Chanko allows for the release of experimental features to specific user segments, enabling direct feedback from real users and ensuring quick iterations based on user experience. - **The Evolution of Development Practices**: Cookpad shifted from traditional development methods, which utilized closed environments and topic branches, to a more open approach aimed at gathering real user feedback. This methodology draws inspiration from the principles outlined in 'The Lean Startup.' - **Challenges Overcome by Chanko**: The development team faced three major challenges: minimizing negative impacts from experimental code, ensuring production quality was not compromised, and maintaining a rapid development pace. - **Chanko’s Functionality**: It allows developers to manage experimental code safely, with features that can revert any errors automatically to the original production version, thus preventing user-facing issues. The presentation included a detailed live demonstration of Chanko in action, highlighting how to create and manage Chanko units effectively. - **Practical Applications of Chanko**: Throughout its use, Cookpad has managed numerous Chanko units simultaneously, continuously running around 30 to 40 at any given time while allowing for thorough testing of design layouts and features. - **Error Management and Feature Roll-outs**: Chanko includes robust mechanisms to handle errors separately from the main application, allowing the team to prioritize bugs and issues, thus ensuring a seamless user experience. In conclusion, Chanko exemplifies an innovative approach to integrating experimentation into a high-traffic production environment. By employing Chanko, Cookpad has effectively enhanced its service development processes, allowing for continuous improvement while keeping production stable and reliable. The code is available on GitHub for others to utilize and adapt for their needs.
Suggest modifications
Cancel
