Kevin Yank shares the challenges Culture Amp faced when scaling Elm & React with a Design System team in the middle, and how an acquisition tipped the ultimate decision to move Elm from “adopt” to “contain” at the company.
Oh yeah, and there’s a new host, Jared M. Smith...stay tuned for more episodes!
Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.
Music by Jesse Moore.
Recording date: 2023.04.06 (07 on Kevin’s side of the world.)
Guest00:01:03 Some of Kevin’s contributions to Elm
00:01:45 History of Elm at Culture Amp
00:04:49 "Why didn’t you just…"
00:05:54 The exciting challenge: styling Elm
00:10:50 Sharing a design system
00:13:48 Design System team challenges
00:16:30 Acquiring a large React codebase
00:17:24 Upgrading to Elm 0.19
00:19:24 Momentum before the acquisition
00:24:12 Communicating the decision to “contain” Elm
00:32:43 An alternative reality with Elm for Culture Amp
00:42:26 How Elm changed the way that the teams at Culture Amp work
00:44:34 Elm as a secret weapon for recruitment
00:48:00 “Why didn’t you just use web components?”
00:49:25 Kevin's blog post
00:55:56 Success, or how never adopting Elm at Culture Amp would be worse
00:59:34 Take responsibility for user experiences
01:00:23 Reminiscing on past episodes
01:06:15 Elm Radio rocks!
01:08:10 Thanks
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Elm Town 73 – It actually fits in my brain with Nduati Kuria
Elm Town 72 – 435 million reasons to love Elm + Elixir with Erik Person
Elm Town 71 – Embracing wins with Lindsay Wardell
Elm Town 70 – Getting out of the basement with Jim Carlson
Elm Town 69 – A vision for tooling with Simon Lydell
Elm Town 68 – Shared joy with Mario Rogic
Elm Town 67 – Breaking things down with Gingko Writer
Elm Town 66 – A gateway to scientific research
Elm Town 65 – Let's roll with it
Elm Town 64 – The network effect
Elm Town 63 – Opening the doors of functional programming
Elm Town 62 – The map to Elm Land
Elm Town 61 – Turning the pages with Dillon Kearns
Elm Town 60 – Productivity and the culture of moving a little bit slower
Elm Town 59 – Elm Camp with Katja Mordaunt
Elm Town 58 – Unblocking users with quality software
Elm Town 57 – Brilliant ways to use Elm
Elm Town 56 – Why don’t you do it in Elm?
Elm Town 55 – From algorithms & animation to building a decentralized finance app
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