Nrwl & Nx Team Members Share News
Read these notes from our team members and share your opinions in the comments below!
Coming together during pandemic times
A message from Amanda Connon-Unda, Nrwl’s VP of Marketing
Never before has the world seen the kind of viral outbreak at the global speeds we’re experiencing with covid-19. While our team is already predominantly remote, serving our clients in a distributed way since the day we started, we are still in shock over the affects of coronavirus. Our team members have all had to adjust in various locations (the US, Canada, UK, Scotland, Italy and Ukraine) to the impacts of the lock-down and the economic downturn from the pandemic.
At this time we’re focused on continuing to build our team culture, and providing the best and highest value in service to our clients and the developer community. We are working harder than ever, and feeling grateful for the journey we’re on.
Nrwl welcomes a new Controller, Thomas Kuehne
A message from Jeff Cross, Nrwl’s Co-Founder
One of the keys to Nrwl’s success has been our ability to balance our aggressive growth with financial discipline. Being a bootstrapped company, we don’t have outside funding to act as a buffer for poor performance or failed business models. As the company continues to grow in size and scope, so does the importance of being smart about looking ahead at our finances and investments. That’s why I’m excited that Thomas Kuehne is officially joining Nrwl as staff controller after acting as our controller on a contract basis.
At Nrwl, we like T-shaped people (with extensive breadth of experience, and depth of expertise in one particular area). Thomas’s background of working with many different types of companies, in Germany and the US, makes him a well-rounded but deeply knowledgeable person. Now based in Santa Cruz, CA, Thomas is focused on building more of a comprehensive financial decision framework to help us continue expanding our professional services offering, as well as keep investing in new ways of making Nx a life-changing tool for enterprise software teams. We’re really excited for the future of the company with Thomas on board! Here’s what Thomas had to say:
“What is very special at Nrwl is the speed of profitable growth. Usually in the Silicon Valley, companies are either profitable or they grow fast. Narwhal is different, and that is driven by the people who work here. I have been the outside controller for Nrwl for about two years and I was very excited when Jeff asked me to join. Narwhal has the potential to go far.”
On April 1, we launched Nx Cloud in Public Beta!
A message from Jeff Cross, Nrwl’s Co-Founder
Nx Cloud is something Victor and I have wanted to build for a long time. The timing was never quite right, and there was always some missing piece that stopped us from building it. But late last year, we looked at the team we’d assembled at Nrwl, and looked at what capabilities could be unlocked for Nx with a connected cloud product, and we decided it was time to go for it.
It’s less than a month into the beta of Nx Cloud, but already we’re seeing a huge impact for teams who adopt it. We worked hard to make the primary initial feature — distributed caching — easy to set up, with no code changes required to use it. Already, we’ve seen hundreds of developer hours saved from the beta users of Nx Cloud, and more workspaces are coming on board every week!
We’ve also been learning a lot from the beta users. Our team has been actively engaged in the live chat support on the site, and in our email support at cloud-support@nrwl.io. We’re taking all the feedback and insights from those conversations to make the product even more powerful and easier to use. Our biggest focus right now is on making distributed cache a simple and high-impact experience for all teams, and to give developers more insights into their build timings with Nx.
If your team is using Nx, I encourage you to go to Nx.app today and spend a couple of minutes connecting your workspace to Nx Cloud for free, and watch the time-savings roll in. And stay tuned for even more Nx Cloud announcements coming soon!
Nx is seeing good growth and an emerging presence within the React community
A message from Philip Fulcher from Nrwl and the Nx Core Team
Nx has always enjoyed the support of a strong community, and 2020 is no different. We’ve seen average weekly downloads of @nrwl/workspace increase by 1.8x since the beginning of the year!
We’re particularly excited about the increased awareness and adoption of Nx with React projects. We’ve seen average weekly downloads of @nrwl/react grow by 2.6x in 2020. We’re excited to help React developers learn about Nx and the tooling we provide so that they can scale their development practices, adopt the monorepo approach, and save time through distributed caching features that Nx and Nx Cloud provide.
To better support this increasingly large community, we re-doubled our efforts on documentation. With the release of Nx 9.2, we revamped our documentation with better navigation and new content. Since then, we’ve continued to add more content and improve existing documentation. We’re here to support you, so please take a look and reach out with any feedback.
Nx 9.2 also introduced community plugin support, and we are humbled by the enthusiastic response. It’s so exciting to see what the community has to offer! Be sure to check out the latest additions.
Remote developer conferences are important for our ecosystem to thrive
A message from React Summit speaker, Jason Jean, Architect at Nrwl
In April, I was able to speak at the Remote Edition of the upcoming React Summit conference about how Nx can help organizations scale their development across multiple teams! The organizers and the broadcast team did a fantastic job of putting on a seamless high-quality event. React Summit had participants in 3,000 cities in 116 countries attend through the web, share ideas, and learn about new exciting technologies and techniques! In particular, I loved interacting directly with attendees during the extended Q&A after the talk, akin to chatting in the hallway! While I cannot wait to attend conferences in person again, I would love to continue attending remote conferences long into the future! I am so glad to have been able to share the power of Nx with the React ecosystem!
A message from ngConf speaker, Brandon Roberts, Sr Engineer at Nrwl
This year’s ng-conf was the same in some ways and different in some ways — Pretty much just like every ng-conf I’ve been to over the past few years. It was the same in that I got to see who the new speakers were, I still had to prepare for a talk, and do a workshop on using NgRx.
The part that makes ng-conf good for me is the people. The community is the best part of Angular, and ng-conf allows the community to come together. And that’s the part where it was different. I was hesitant about how a virtual conference would still have that community feel. When I take a step back, I think the ng-conf delivered something that the community can look back on and be proud of. I still got to hang out with other speakers, talk and joke around with people I haven’t talked to before, get nervous before my talk, and see the reaction from others during the talks. Those are the things I can take with me going into next year, when we hopefully get to see each other in person again.
My talk was “Revisiting a Reactive Router with Ivy”, where I talked about the history of routers in Angular, and how Ivy gives us the opportunity to get back to focusing on routing with components, and being more reactive out of the box. You can watch the video at https://videos.ng-conf.org/videos/revisiting-a-reactive-router-with-ivy. Make sure you go and watch the other talks as well, and share them. I look forward to meeting more people at virtual, and in-person conferences in the future.
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