We are getting Iguana X very close to being production ready. We are starting working with a few customers using the Iguana 6 Channel Importer to help customers bring their Iguana 6 channels into Iguana X and identify any gaps or problems which would stop them from using it.
The logging system still has some problems which we are working on and we’re really just doubling down on making sure all the features we have built so far are working as expected.
One thing we have found helpful is not to spread out efforts too thin in terms by deliberately switching off support for things which are not core to the product.
What does that mean?
Well it means we only support the Chrome browser at this stage. With a little more effort we could support Firefox and Safari but that is effort and time taken away from getting the core functionality of Iguana X complete. For our purposes Chrome is free and works well so it seems reasonable to use it.
It means for now we are only supporting early adopters using Bitbucket because we have enough headaches working through the integration issues with that platform before we then do Github. Gitlabs will be the last platform we support because it is the most difficult one to test with given that many customers run their own versions of it. For our purposes the free version of Bitbucket works well so it seems reasonable just to use that. We are still finding issues with the Bitbucket integration that we resolving - it would not be helpful to double or triple the problems in this area.
Of course we will support those platforms in good time - but we’d rather be focusing effort on making everything we do deliver as rock solid as quickly as we can and adding requirements for additional browsers, additional git platforms like github and gitlabs will pull us away from getting the core problems tackled.
Our goal is to get 10 customers running Iguana X solidly in production. I think with 10.1.88 we now reached the point that IguanaX will now be a viable production platform. We already are running about 8 IguanaX servers of our own running in production for our needs.
Our priorities are:
Stability - getting to zero memory leaks and no crashes.
Usability - getting the onboarding process completed to make the product easy to use.
Compatibility - doing everything we can so our customer have trusted us for decades can have as smooth of transition as possible on to the new platform with their existing interfaces.
So to keep laser focused it means there are a lot of things we are saying no to, at this stage:
Chrome and Edge Browsers are the only supported browsers.
Bitbucket is required in order to use the product. We are not currently supporting other GIT platforms.
Network Access - at this stage it is not possible to run IguanaX in a closed environment.
Making these deliberate choices of focus means we can deliver IguanaX faster to market and give everybody a better experience than by trying too early to support these other platformsoptions.
Happy to discuss.If you are interested in getting some help trying your interface code from Iguana 6 on Iguana X then reach out to me directly.
Eliot Muir
CEO