How Rails helps make cooking more fun in Japan
summary
Cookpad runs on Rails and AWS Tokyo serving 15 million monthly uniques and 1.1 million recipes, built by ~40 engineers in small agile teams. The site uses Sphinx search, feature-flagging (Champo) to roll experiments to subsets, and a custom remote_spec system that cuts full test runs from ~60 minutes to ~50 seconds. During the 2011 disaster users immediately add improvised, no-gas/no-water recipes and the site’s mobile/PC accessibility proves useful and widely adopted.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Cookpad's mission
- 2:13Rails at scale
- 8:16Cookpad features and engagement
- 13:46Employees cooking daily
- 17:02Open-source and prototyping
- 20:38Testing and deployment with Rails
- 23:51CI/CD workflow
- 25:06Contributing to open-source
- 25:492011 earthquake response
- 29:02Closing remarks
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