TeamSPS

Moments from life at SPS Commerce and our #TeamSPS community. Highlights include company meetings announcing sponsorships, Tech Connect conferences, volunteer projects and social events like hockey games.

Nov 19, 2014 ∞

Welcome to “The Cloud”! The #TeamSPS space rocks. 😊

Glass door etched with the words the CLOUD and cloud shapes, leading into a modern office lounge with red bar stools and pendant lights.

Nov 13, 2014 ∞

Awesome to hear SPS Commerce won Tekne Awards this evening! Missing event due to AWS re:Invent. Shout out to #TeamSPS!

Nov 13, 2014 ∞

AWS re:Invent - Day 2

Excited for Werner Vogels AWS re:Invent keynote!

Large conference keynote with a speaker on stage in front of a projected slide reading Werner Vogels Chief Technology Officer Amazon.com

Great groove!

Excited to have @iamjacknovak spinning on stage before my keynote at #reinvent pic.twitter.com/QFSzZaHXOq
— Werner Vogels (@Werner) November 13, 2014

Awesome! AWS container service!

AWS is first cloud platform with container support. Yes?

Some CLI geekdom in the AWS re:Invent keynote. Nice!

Large conference hall audience watching a dark presentation slide showing command-line interface text on a big screen, with illuminated pillars and stage lighting visible.

Impressive Docker AWS container demo at re:Invent!

AWS Lambda announced! AWS Lambda has big potential for #TeamSPS!

Skrillex performing at re:Play!

Expecting a packed Lambda breakout session at re:Invent!

Packed conference room audience seated in chairs facing a stage with AWS re:Invent branding and a slide reading Getting Started with AWS Lambda

AWS #reinvent should hand out copies of Strucuture of Computer Programs to celebrate Lambda.

Book cover of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Second Edition by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman

Love AWS Lambda bringing cloud scale to functional workloads. Opens up amazing potentials.

Lots of buzz in conversations about Lambda.

Wonder how long until social feeds like Gnip allow connecting AWS Lambda functions. Seems obvious.

Line for AWS ECS session is insane.

At the most in-demand re:Invent session of AWS Container Service. Packed!

Packed conference ballroom at AWS re:Invent with rows of attendees facing a stage showing Amazon EC2 Container Service slides on two large screens.

Every session at re:Invent touching on containers or Docker have been completely full with lines out the door.

When did “fleet” overtake the term “farm”. Tertiary impact of all this container talk?

The Container Service slides seem to have gone without review from the AWS brand managers. 🙂 Refreshing actually.

“Server farm” v “server fleet”. Fleet sounds bigger. Better to be transportation system than farmers?

Very cool elastic container service demo.

Nov 12, 2014 ∞

AWS re:Invent - Day 1

Seated for AWS re:Invent keynote!

Large conference hall packed with attendees facing a stage and two large screens showing an AWS re:Invent presentation with a tweet about Amazon Cloud

Andy Jassy “Cloud has become the new normal.” True for many!

Large conference keynote slide reading Cloud Has Become the New Normal surrounded by white cloud illustrations on a dark background, with a seated crowd in silhouette below.

“shower cycles”? New term to me.

Amazon Aurora looks compelling.

Impressed by first day keynote and all the work going on!

At the re:Invent Security Keynote. AWS capabilities for security has radically changed and improved in recent years. AWS has 5 to 7 thousand instances running continual security tests against internal systems constantly.

Lunch for 9,500.

Large convention hall with rows of round tables covered in white linens and red banquet chairs, partially filled with attendees eating lunch.

You will not miss Michael Ducy. Very sparkly!

Smiling bearded man wearing a shiny silver metallic zip-up hoodie at a tech conference expo hall with Cisco and Imperva booths visible behind him.

Nice demo of Datadog.

Attending impressive session on Key Management in AWS with Amy Patton. Wishing Milinda Rambel Stone, our security leader for #TeamSPS, was here too!

Nov 11, 2014 ∞

AWS re:Invent - Day 0

Looking forward to connecting with the rest of #TeamSPS at #reinvent!

68 °F and the cab driver had the heat on. Opened window. #vegas

Hotel is pretty full so got upgraded to a suite. Nice digs.

Spacious luxury hotel suite at night with a king bed, red bench, gray suitcase, marble bar, and city lights through the window.

Nov 7, 2014 ∞

Nice — #TeamSPS product and platform offsite today! #InfiniteRetailPower

👍 #TeamSPS assembling for product & platform event! Let’s do this!

Large hotel ballroom filled with rows of attendees seated at white-draped tables with laptops during a corporate offsite event.

👍 #TeamSPS tech ops on the job from event.

Five men seated at a long conference table with laptops open, smiling at the camera during a team offsite event in a hotel ballroom.

👍 #TeamSPS presentation from Shivani Stumpf and Mike Bjerkness!

Two presenters on a stage at Marriott Minneapolis City Center, one standing and gesturing while speaking, the other standing at a podium.

Product design for #TeamSPS being continually improved and redefined by Chuck Mallott!

Man in a gray jacket and green shirt speaking at a Marriott Minneapolis City Center podium on a draped stage.

Love Chuck Mallott pursuit of bringing delight to B2B applications. Business users are people too! #TeamSPS

Nov 6, 2014 ∞

👍 #TeamSPS workshop day kicking off! Education, training and continuous learning are key to successful teams! Six sessions ranging from Agile, TDD, Platform overview, AWS, Git Workflow and Ansible!

Corporate training room with attendees at rows of tables facing a projected Agile Overview slide, while several people gather at a food table in the foreground.

If you are practicing agile methods, and haven’t revisited fundamentals in the last year, you’re probably doing it wrong.

Nice — #TeamSPS workshops continue with Mike Bjerkness presenting SPS CodeFlow.

Large conference room filled with dozens of attendees seated at rows of desks facing a presenter standing at a projected screen at the front.

Thank you to AWS Cloud for sending presenter to #TeamSPS workshop day!

Final session of #TeamSPS workshop day hosted by David Federlein giving depth on Ansible. SPS is starting to use Ansible for continuous deployment.

Nov 4, 2014 ∞

Rich Howard and Chris Bidler jamming on some code. #TeamSPS

Two men sitting side by side at an open-plan office desk, looking at a laptop screen together, surrounded by coworkers at computer workstations.

Nov 3, 2014 ∞

TeamSPS Opens New Floor

Today is first day in new #TeamSPS floor! Expect many tweets with photos today. Collaborative, mobile optimized team-oriented space! Fifty five #TeamSPS WiFi access points found from my desk.

Large open-plan office with rows of white desks, dual monitors, and green dividers, filled with employees working and moving about.
#TeamSPS getting setup!

Purple office pillar and wall with two bright green paper signs taped up reading Write On Me, beside open-plan cubicles and a desk with a blue cup of markers.
Writable surfaces everywhere!

Row of tall office lockers with keypad locks in bright green, blue, red, and light blue, lining a long carpeted office corridor.
140+ lockers to keep your coat and stuff.

About ten people working on laptops and tablets in a modern open office with colorful lockers, seated at desks and on mobile stools.
Two #TeamSPS dev teams.

Dozens of donuts in open cardboard boxes spread across a long red counter while several people browse and select from the assortment.
Donuts for #TeamSPS move in day!

Six people in a casual office scrum room, one man standing near windows while others sit on floor or bean bags with a laptop open.
Morning scrum in one of the #TeamSPS scrum rooms.

Large open-plan office with rows of white desks, green dividers, and monitors, blue structural columns, and a few people working or walking through.
#TeamSPS new floor.

Scrum A room sign on wall beside glass-walled meeting room where four people gather, one reclining on a green bean bag with a laptop.
Another #TeamSPS scrum room.

Two developers working on laptops in a modern scrum room while a third person stands near a whiteboard and dual wall-mounted monitors.
Great #TeamSPS teamwork space.

Two men playing a Pac-Man arcade table in an office game room with an NHL bubble hockey table in the foreground.
#TeamSPS game room getting some use. Galaga FTW!

Oct 31, 2014 ∞

New #TeamSPS space is ready to roll. Here is one of the many collaborative tables with great tech.