"Being a distributed team had it's challenges, but everyone did their part to make that as painless as possible. We had well-established practices to maximize efficiency and make sure we were building the best, most stable products we could. When I first started at NodeFly, before the acquisition by StrongLoop, the code was a bit hackish, but it was typical prototype hackish and they fully acknowledged it. When better ways were suggested to do things, they were completely open to the new ideas."