[gavinjoyce]

At Intercom, we've been incrementally upgrading our almost 6 year old Ember app to Octane as the features have landed over the past 8 months. Our app continues to be in great health and we continue to ship hundreds of times a day with a constant stream of features that our customers love [1]

Octane is a huge leap forward for Ember. Its APIs are extremely well designed, composable and cohesive. The new Glimmer components and @tracked properties have resulted in waves of negative diffs as we refactor parts of our app to Octane and, IMO, are an advancement in the state-of-the-art component state tracking / reactive UI.

If you've tried Ember before and were turned off by some of its slightly weird APIs (computed properties, component APIs like tagName, classNames & event handling, the ember object model), you should take a second look.

With Octane, Ember is a framework for rapidly building high quality web applications that will remaining healthy over time as the web platform and JS ecosystem rapidly changes.

[1]: https://www.intercom.com/changes/en

[social_quotient]

Can you shed a little light on the sorts of things that are shipped hundreds of times a day? curious if you could share some use cases or examples.

Intercom is pretty awesome - congrats!

[gavinjoyce]

Sorry, I meant to say we ship to production about a hundred times per day, not hundreds of times per day. We've shipped continuously since the very early days of Intercom. [1]

We have a solid CI/CD pipeline meaning that every good merge to master hits production a small number of minutes later. Most of these changes are pretty small, focused and routine, adding a new button behind a feature flag, a db migration, a bug fix.

These small changes add up over time to a steady stream of highly polished features and improvements.

[1] https://www.intercom.com/blog/shipping-is-your-companys-hear...

[itwy]

Definitely a gross exaggeration.