🤔 About the benefits of cli

Since a few years now, we started to design various cli for internal batch usage, on our Java Stack on top of picocli and quarkus, delivered as images, and run on podman.

Our goal was to :

1. Avoid as much as possible to write unnecessary documentations : each tool should describe himself according to a common pattern
2. Rely on the best possible practices
3. And overall : deliver a consistent first-class UX to OPS

Therefore I started to read and follow the following site to follow the best possible guidelines :

$ brew install hugo
$ cd <path>/<to>/cli-guidelines/
$ hugo server

hugo server --bind 0.0.0.0 --baseURL http://$(hostname -f):1313

🎯 Our Go(al)

On my very own side I gave a try during a hackathon to Go and goreleaser :

⏳GitHub Copilot 1-Day Build Challenge : eol, a tiny Go client to manage eols

adriens ・ Jan 11

#devchallenge #githubchallenge #ai #go

Then, I wanted to bring my team to the Go experience at the office as sometimes we need to deliver apps to systems on which we don't want or can't install new softwares : so delivering a static binary thanks to Go and goreleaser seemed a good option for effortless cross-compilation... and of course build the best possible UX thanks to Cobra.

So I used this opportunity to sharpen our skill with my team :

And...

Build the best possible cli of our dreams to send sms from a terminal and see what we can deliver and learn from that.

🍿 v1.0.0 brew unboxing

📜 The story behind the product development

As I always say to my team & student, always "Start with why" :

After having drafted my ideas :

Here are the motivations that kept us on track :

Do things extremely :

• 🧩 Interoperable
• 🫴 Easy to integrate for anyone (even on legacy systems)
• ⚡ Efficient
• 🦥 Useful : make people save time, ie. make more with less effort
• 📦 Easy to deliver and install
• 🤩 Beautiful
• 📉 Fast to build : for an improved Time to market
• 🟢 Fast to (learn to) use
• 💡 Inspiring for us and others, eg. create new business opportunities ideas
• 😍 Desirable : people should feel the desire to use the product and feel joy while using it
• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Create new relationships with people and discover new practices

🔭 What's next

Next, we'll focus on showing and sharing the benefits :

• ♾️ Continuous delivery tools and automation
• 📼 New ways of documentation with next-gen tools
• 🛡️ Security (beacause it always matters)
• 🦸 One liners (because they're both a cool and efficient way to get things done)
• 🐧 Classical linux tools
• 📚 General IT Culture
• 🧑‍🎨 Creative product design and development

Hopefully you'll like it as much as we do...and will engage yourself on the same kind of way : the #learnbydoing journey 🤗