| title | description |
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Highlights of Artsy Engineering |
What are the PRs/releases/ideas that got us to where we are? |
This is very much a living document, and likely missing things. so, please send PRs adding new (or old) events.
- Jan 2011 - Artsy's API: Gravity was
git init'd 🔒 - Oct 2012 - Artsy launches to the public
- Jan 2012 - "Hello World", we start off the Artsy blog
- Feb 2012 - We move to 401 Broadway 🔒
- Feb 2012 - Artsy's partner portfolio app: Energy is released 🔒 to the App Store as (Folio)
- Sep 2012 - The first "Artsy Tech Stack" post, series
- Oct 2012 - Order/Purchase are modeled 🔒 in Gravity
- Nov 2012 - Artsy's iOS app: Eigen is
git initd 🔒 - Jan 2013 -
art.sy-> 🔒artsy.net - Jul 2013 - Artsy's mobile website: Microgravity is started 🔒
- Aug 2013 - Auctions are modeled 🔒 in Gravity
- Aug 2013 - Gravity moves to OpsWorks
- Sep 2013 - Eigen is released to the App Store
- Oct 2013 - Artsy's first benefit auction is launched
- Nov 2013 - Artsy's Website: Force is started 🔒 - beginning the start of splitting gravity
- Nov 2013 - Force starts receiving network requests 🔒
- Nov 2013 - Doge added to force
- Jan 2014 - Artsy ships its first annual review - site | code
- Jan 2014 - Artsy's partner CMS: Volt is is started 🔒
- Feb 2014 - Artworks 🔒, Genes and tags 🔒, Shows and Orders 🔒 are removed from Gravity
- Mar 2014 - Fairs were re-designed in Eigen with maps / Force for Armory 2014 - press
- Mar 2014 - For Fairs on-site, we created monoliths and forgetsy
- Mar 2014 - Skrillex added to force, ASCII mode added to Eigen
- Apr 2014 - Our first write-up on using React
- Jul 2014 - API v2 started 🔒
- Aug 2014 - Force has a public fork, making it the first open source front-end app
- Aug 2014 - Work starts on Eidolon, the first OSS by Default iOS app
- Aug 2014 - API v2 announced publicly
- Aug 2014 - Engineering starts a security bounty
- Sep 2014 - Artsy's editorial API and CMS: Positron is created
- Jan 2015 - Eigen turns OSS by Default
- May 2015 - Posts are removed 🔒 from Gravity, in favour of Positron
- Mar 2015 - The iOS team write about OSS team culture in objc.io
- Mar 2015 - Artsy starts hosting a peer lab every saturday morning
- May 2015 - Artsy's initial team documentation repo: Potential is created 🔒
- Apr 2015 - Auctions are re-created for our first auction with Sotheby's
- Apr 2015 - The Engineering ladder is made public (it's now in README)
- Jul 2015 - Eigen becomes the center of all docs on slow launch speeds in iOS apps using Swift
- Jul 2015 - Engineering re-orgs into practices: Platform, Web & Mobile
- Jul 2015 - We start to declare ourselves moving to OSS by Default internally
- Aug 2015 - Team Navigator v1 starts out as a hackathon project
- Aug 2015 - Energy becomes OSS by Default, moving all of the iOS projects to be OSS
- Sep 2015 - Artsy's mobile website is used in Apple marketing
- Sep 2015 - Artsy's auction live bidding engine: Causality is started
- Sep 2015 - The Art Genome Project's genes and definitions are made public
- Oct 2015 - Artsy ships a tvOS app to the App Store
| code
- Nov 2015 - Artsy's GraphQL API gateway: Metaphysics is created
- Jan 2016 - Engineering teaches Swift to non-technical + technical colleagues
- Jan 2016 - Danger is added to Eigen
- Jan 2016 - Analytics are removed from Gravity by deprecating MASS 🔒
- Jan 2016 - Data pipelining starts moving to spark via cinder 🔒
- Feb 2016 - Artsy's React Native component library: Emission is created
- Feb 2016 - Gravity moves to Puma 🔒
- Mar 2016 - Engineering re-orgs into Auctions, Collector Experience & GMV, Partner Success & Revenue, Publishing and Platform - email 🔒
- May 2016 - Emission is used in Eigen
- Jun 2016 - First live auction in production with Eigen, Force, Prediction and Causality
- Jun 2016 - Artsy gets its first queuing system with Kafka 🔒
- Aug 2016 - Force is made OSS by Default - moving all front-end code to be OSS.
- Oct 2016 - Gravity's auth tokens turn into JWTs 🔒 - post
- Jan 2017 - We switch from Kafka to RabbitMQ 🔒
- Feb 2017 - Artsy's consignments app: Convection is created
- Feb 2017 - Artsy's web react components library: Reaction is created
- Feb 2017 - Microgravity and Force are merged, now there is only one website
- Feb 2017 - Team Navigator v2 is shipped
- Mar 2017 - React first makes its way into Force
- May 2017 - Emission gets demo’d during the Microsoft Build conference’s "What’s New in TypeScript?"
- Jun 2017 - Peril added to the Artsy org
- Sep 2017 - Force is modernized with the Omakase
- Sep 2017 - Artsy has a town hall on API designs, and projects migrate to GraphQL
- Aug 2017 - Force has its first Reaction-driven page set up for Articles
- Aug 2017 - Engineering does a DevSwap
- Nov 2017 - The first stab at GraphQL stitching is merged
- Dec 2017 - Engineering re-orgs to be project and goal driven sprints
- Jan 2018 - The RFC process is established
- Jan 2018 - Engineering merges with Design and Analytics (data) and a new Product org is created, making PDDE
- Jan 2018 - Engineering re-orgs to Grow, Discover, Evaluate, Sell and Platform
- May 2018 - On-call process is formalized
- May 2018 - Our team stand-up is automated completely by documentation
- Mar 2018 - Eigen becomes one of the first apps using static frameworks
- Jun 2018 - Artsy's design system: Palette is created
- Jun 2018 - Artsy runs a series of workshops on the Omakase called JavaScriptures
- Jul 2018 - Artsy runs a conference with Facebook: Artsy x React Native
- Aug 2018 - Engineering's engineering principles doc is created
- Aug 2018 - Artsy's public docs repo is created - RFC 🔒
- Sep 2018 - The Artsy Omakase's name is decided
- Sep 2018 - Engineering highlights are created
- Oct 2018 - Buy now is launched🔒
- Jan 2019 - Launch Artsy Learns to Code to support non-engineering colleagues who want to learn how to program
- Jan 2019 - Make Offer is launched