World Cup 2014

28 languages

5 sprints

137 points

Who?

• World Service

  WS Dev - all of them

  WS Editorial27

  Sport

When?

• Spike in Mid March
• Brazil v Croatia t-minus 7 days, 1 hr

What?

• Localised Sport Data App
• What?

  Hook up the Sport API

  Decouple their models

  Translate it all

  Make it purdy

  Desktop and responsive

Where?

• From NBH-BR3
• to The World

Why?

• Huge audience interest

  around 44m

• Knock on benefits of talking to Sport
• Drunken promises between editorial and tech leads

How?

• Seat of the pants Agile dev
• Lots of coffee
• ..and sporty gifs

Hook up the Sport API

Live Broker API

Sports Data API

bbc-pal-library-onesport

• API integration 700 loc, 30+ unit tests
• Builders, 5 Classes, 1000+ loc, 40+ unit tests
• :-/

la Gazzetta dello sport

• PAL app with bbc-pal-library-onesport as dependency
• Routeable
• Integrates with Tabloid via shared presenter
• Uses the sport lib defensively

Use the sport lib defensively

Decouple their models

Sport models

• SoccerEvent, Team, Competition, Event, Table, TablePosition...
• Using them as a data source, might want to swap out
• Shouldn't make it to a presenter/view

BBC/Gazzetta/Model

• Match
• Table
• TableRow

Populating our models

• Transformer
• Factory

Translations

Make it purdy

logicless templates

tested view models in presenters

Tricky bits

rtl

..more tricky bits

big words

Desktop and responsive

Responsive iFrame

mustache knock-ons

{{#showNonIFrameComponents}}
    

NFRs

Monitoring, Runbook, Reviews, Pipeline, etc.

Aka reasons why devs don't wear ties

Thanks!