Real World Ember

We talk reasons to choose Ember, the Javascript dev hiring process, and how to upgrade a 2.5-year-old Ember app that contains 1800 components. We’re interviewing Neil Thawani and Jessie Graves from Infegy Atlas Guest interviewer: Erik Hatchett from ProgramWithErik.com Infegy Atlas Kansas City, working onsite Infegy Atlas helps corporations understand what their customers want through Social Media Intelligence For example, Infegy Atlas helped McDonalds discover what would make their customers love Breakfast All Day Getting started: Jessi had experience with SproutCore, but they still had trouble getting started (pre-1.0, when documentation was scarce) They have a 2.5-year-old Ember app (!) She cited the community and solid conventions as one of the big reasons they chose Ember Because of those conventions, Neil was able to push code within his first week at Infegy At one point they got behind on Ember upgrades (1.5 through 1.13 + switching to ember-cli) and that’s been one of their big difficulties The