Sneakers 1.0

[jondot]

I think it's safe to say: Sneakers is production grade.

Goals

At all of my production deployments, Sneakers outlived and far exceeded it's original goal. On of them, it's been almost 2 years, 4 BILLION jobs processed, supporting 5 completely different use cases.

Contributions

I'm humbled that a lot of smart people contributed to this project and major companies adopted it. All I hope for, is that it has saved you time, and made your job easier and more fun to do.

That it solved a problem for you.

With that in mind - I'd like to share with you the news, and what's coming.

Where we're going

• Rebranding [WIP] - hired a design studio, work is in progress.
• New front page, new look.
• Blog [WIP] - The main purpose is community updates. Tutorials, and use cases will be uploaded and you'll be able to see how everyone is using Sneakers out there.
• Guest appearances - any of you guys

All the additional work I've taken upon myself to do is not a step for commercialization like other open-source libraries may have done in the past. It's a way for me to give back a big Thank You ❤️ for your contributions and adoption of Sneakers.

I believe open-source should stay the same open-source it was back in 99', when I contributed my first project: free, and free of hidden interests.

I hope that Sneakers will always be free, friendly, accessible, and fast :).

Towards 1.0!

I'll be keeping this issue updated along the upcoming couple of weeks.

I'm the meanwhile, here's a thanks to each of you (by no special order) that contributed, provided their feedback and thoughts over pull requests and issues:

@justin-yesware @trungpham @Baltazore @arion @norman @arielze @michaelklishin @imothee @timgluz @tychobrailleur @SebastianEdwards @jaresty @abevoelker @rodrigosaito @jpemberthy @lkang @adamniedzielski @carlhoerberg @sicarrots @magnum @anhuiliujun @simonmorley @nathanpalmer @stevenkaras @bobbytables @doughsay @LukeWinikates @ged @MaxGIS @MadBomber @glenjamin @kmayer @wangli3274 @kke @msaspence @graf-abolmasov @yaauie @jgwmaxwell

[norman]

Looking forward to seeing what's coming next, @jondot! Thank you for all your hard work and generosity.

[graf]

Good for you! My congratulations, and thank you! 👏

[abevoelker]

Congrats and thanks for all your hard work! 🎉 🎈 🍰

I definitely think sneakers has a lot of potential, so I'm glad you're polishing it up for a 1.0 release. Being built around RabbitMQ makes a lot more sense than having to reinvent the wheel of message delivery around Redis primitives, and I think the leanness of sneakers's code base is a testament to that. With a bit of spit and polish it could easily be a strong competitor to other well-known Ruby background processing gems. Looking forward to 1.0!

[simonmorley]

👍

[Baltazore]

Great 🎉 👍 🎆

[tychobrailleur]

Good stuff!

[coladarci]

👍 well done, all!

[doughsay]

👍 awesome!

[michaelklishin]

w00t!

[michaelklishin]

@jondot how can people help you with the stuff you've listed?

[anhuiliujun]

Thank you for all your hard work!

[trungpham]

great work all!

[arielze]

kudos!!

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great work all!

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[jondot]

Hey guys! thanks for the warm wishes - I wish it all back :)
Here's a first logo draft fresh out of the design shop - flat / material design!

@michaelklishin anyone can help, however you'd like to! once I get the designs done (should be any day now) - the blog, and new website are a matter of couple of hours of work (I'll be basing it on top of Middleman). I'll push it and anyone could collaborate on it happily, add their ideas and posts and what not 👍

[msaspence]

This is a cool concept but it wasn't immediately obvious what it was. I think many because the white toe is lost on the light grey back ground.

[warolv]

Great news, thank you for hard work:+1:

[jondot]

Here's a revision of the logo, cuter, more abstract :)
We're almost done with the design!

[simonmorley]

I couldn't help myself ;)

[arielze]

+1

On Dec 9, 2014, at 10:29, Dotan J. Nahum <notifications@github.commailto:notifications@github.com> wrote:

Here's a revision of the logo, cuter, more abstract :)
We're almost done with the design!

[main_logo]https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/83390/5354262/1f81bec0-7f8e-11e4-8ea0-6015c62331f7.png

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[norman]

Excellent revision - it's much, much nicer now.

[doughsay]

I like the new one!

[nathanpalmer]

I like the direction of the logo :)

[jondot]

Hey guys, just pushed sneakers.io which would be the new front page and blog.

One last piece of the puzzle is missing - and we need your help :)

There should be a new section on the front page - "See What People Say"
This section will give stage to anyone who wants to share a cool use case in a couple of lines, here's the mock layout:

Feel free to send me your experiences to jondotan@gmail.com and i'll include them for you. Later you all could just submit pull requests and include yourselves to the sneakers.io repository :)

[jondot]

Hey all,
First staging version here: https://evening-forest-9264.herokuapp.com/
Still collecting comments from you guys - send me anything by mail if you'd like to be featured on the front page :)

[jondot]

Update:

I've merged in 1.0.1 branch,
http://sneakers.io now points to the new site! :)

All: please feel free to add your own experiences for the landing page and articles for the blog with a pull request here :) https://github.com/jondot/sneakers.io

[jondot]

Hi All, please check out #117 :)

[jondot]

🎊