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From YouTube: Product Marketing | DEX Iteration Release

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A

Hey everyone: this is our iteration uh release, video for the product marketing team, on digital experience for December 1st I'm, going to hand this over to Tina to go first, she can show something, so we can go around the room there.

B

Sure, thanks um here should be seeing my screen. um My primary focus and release for this iteration um are eight iterations on the comparison page.

B

um So there's this one here, which is um an interpretation of this image that was provided um to me, um so we were kind of asked to make this interactive. So we have a version like this, but there's a little pop-up to get more. You click here. You can go to the GitHub page, um the versus pages, so I made some prototypes for all of these.

B

um So this is uh iteration version four, and this is five, which is closer to what that image is with the logos um here, just to kind of satisfy that request um and then we're experimenting with progress bars instead of the Harvey balls.

B

um With that same image in mind, um we find that kind of looking at that vertically, like stacked um vertical progress, bars it's easier to identify.

B

um You know the percentages of um where we are um and then there's a version here, which is um Michael kind of sketched out an idea um where we kind of give an overview, and then it opens up this other table here where you can learn more and you'll, see that we're kind of looking at different versions again of this progress bar um and then that kind of inspired this version, which um is kind of the same concept as the one previously, but instead of opening a new table, everything is kind of accessible from this page.

B

We've got the pop-up here, so there's a little bit less clicking and it's kind of easy to learn and maybe a little less chaotic than this one. Let's look at this one, but this one also is very utilitarian.

B

So we'll see where we're going to present those on Friday and we'll see where, where we'll end up with that, but um I think you know that pretty much took out of my whole iteration, because prototyping those took a long time and I worked a bit on the nav and other things, but and get a lot dedicated yeah. That took a long time too, but I think more growth will show that um so I'll go to Margaret next.

C

Yep uh sure I'm gonna share my screen. Let me know when you guys can see it so yeah during the situation. I mostly focused on this git love dedicated page, uh it's a pretty straightforward page. uh We just reuse some of the sections that we've been creating for the security pages uh so um Yep. This is the form that we added and again we're using some of the components that we already had.

C

um I also worked in some content updates for the platform page and I, helped out with some of um blog related uh updates that a Visa and tme are working on. I also uh help hanif uh with some content box that he was having for the topics Pages, uh but that was it for my duration, uh I guess, I'm just gonna pass it out to Mattel.

D

Okay, let me share my screen.

D

Okay, so first I worked on a bunch of different things here in the customer. Page first thing was adding uh a new case study. The dunno case study, which now shows up over here, I, also updated these filters to allow a single case study having multiple um tags for it to show in different filters. So if I filter for healthcare, which is a new one, that I added this one comes up, but it also comes up uh from RE from technology.

D

D

um So, though, that is, Now supported and I also updated. This header, which was having a render issue, it was rendering like this on page load, which was a bit ugly. uh All of these tabs were showing up for a second and then it would load like this after that. But now, when loading, the page, just glutes, normally um I also updated the drop down components in slippers to have it have an option where we can set a label uh for to show before the selector option.

D

So the example was uh sorted by so that the drop down can show this sort by before this selected option, um and you just Loop this again, uh I also updated the icons in features and I. Think that.

A

D

I also created in this direct linking to the pricing page FAQ. This was a very old issue, seven months old, but still could be done so pick that one up and yeah that's it for my iteration I will pass it over to Nathan.

E

Thanks Mateo yeah I was all over the place. uh I guess I could share. Oh I have some token stuff, so I don't really want to share just in case I expose a token so yeah. What I've been working on is rotating the gitlab bot token.

E

uh So we're just kind of limiting permissions on some of the tokens that we have in www.getlab.com, which is for security reasons, so I've been on that and then there's a mini incident with the redirects, and so one of the temporary solutions to get it under the Thousand redirect cap was to find like 40 or find redirects that were targeting 404s.

E

So some of these redirects are like four years old and so I wrote a script that pretty much 404, checked all the targets and then deleted all the ones that are for reporting um and then I removed the categories and features the ammo file.

E

In my experience, uh I think they were just floating around from the past, so they didn't need to be there they're gone and then I went back to the 404 finder job and then I fixed all the 404s they're starting to add up again and then I added two new jobs for security uh into the pipeline.

E

So there's the security detection, job and there's the um what's the other one, the dependency scanning job and so right now they run on every prod deployment, which I think I'm going to change it to only run like on a schedule, because we don't change stuff that often and so I think we can wait a day if something pops up um also the first cleanup of features yaml, so I worked with product and we managed to trim down so we removed bronze silver. All those like weird plan names uh from features yaml, so they're gone.

E

The next step is to trim it down, even more so I think we're down to like 10 000 lines, so it's still huge, but it's better and then I also fixed a bug with slippers. uh One of the releases for some reason just didn't work so then re-release test, 2.1.18 and now that works so anyway, a lot of like fires, but they're all out now so looking good into the holidays. uh Heavy you're up next.

F

Thank you. Nathan uh iteration I worked on more of the Vlog image. Compression worked on a couple things one if the image is larger than 1900 pixels wide it'll scale it down proportionately to if the compression algorithm doesn't compress the images properly it'll just keep the original, um also going through subdirectories. Now so it's like. If your directories has directories, it'll go through their directories as well.

F

um That made a big Improvement. We were looking at before I. We haven't run the algorithm on the blog images on production yet, but that Mr got merged and the last time I ran it. It had 54 savings on that directory, which is a lot so happy about that um small upgrade to remove the manage tab from the secondary table. uh Small thing that Justin asked me to do yesterday and then I had work with adding GA data properties to ctas.

F

Thank you Mark for checking some of that and thank you for catching some of those silly errors appreciate it um and that's it for me: yeah how's it back to Justin.

A

Cool thanks, everyone and yep um yeah I, don't know, I have a good signup so till next time.