Andy Glassman - Write Admin Tools from Day One

As a developer, some of the biggest time sucks can be: * Tracking down the cause of unexpected behavior. * Fixing data in production systems. * Answering user, or team member questions. * Running maintenance scripts, or other ad-hoc tasks.

It feels good and productive to do these tasks, but this approach does not scale. Your time spent developing new features, or improving existing features will start to suffer. Your team's feature output will not be consistent. Some weeks you may be swamped with support tasks which eat up your development time, and force you to context switch.

In this talk, I'll provide real examples of: * Support horror stories, and how a focus on admin tools helped the team recover. * Types of support tools and processes you can create from day one. * Elixir specific admin tools, and how to best leverage them. * Getting your team to adopt a support mindset.

About Andy
I'm a recovering Java developer who has been working in Elixir for the past 4 years. I love programming, board gaming, fantasy novels, snow sports, mountain biking, and living the dad life.