Development
Our Engineering team, apprentices, Front-End Developers, and Designers share insights on the development process
Data Pipelines in Elixir
Have you been looking to do something in Elixir outside of the usual Phoenix website? Or do you need to do some data processing…
BTC++, Consensus, and the elusive Web3
On a recent Saturday evening in Austin, Texas, I left a talk between a human rights activist and an Afghan entrepreneur revolving around using…
Apprentice to CTO in 7 Years
Nick Schello, Revelry’s Chief Technology Officer, began his career here as a software engineer apprentice in 2014. After seven and a half years of…
Creating a software application is like creating a theatre production
As a person who is new to coding, I like to try to find parallels for things that are more familiar to me. Since…
How to kill staging without “testing in production”
Most software teams have left behind the Waterfall(1) methodology in favor of approaches that move faster and flex more to accommodate changes and maximize the…
Your brain != A computer
Stuart Page – former Assistant Psychologist, current Software Engineer. “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be…
Wordle as a metaphor for software process
We at Revelry have a #wordelry channel in Slack where we share our Wordle scores and commiserate about unlucky guesses. It’s a great way…
Tackling hard problems head-on (can be a mistake)
A really hard problem can feel like a great chance to flex our skills and finally use some of those architectural patterns we’ve been…
Web3 x Liveview: Crystal Adkins presents at the Big Elixir 2022
You don’t have to forsake Elixir and Phoenix to work with Web3 and Blockchain. Liveview gives us the perfect intermediary. Background The Conference: The…
Nix: an idea whose time has come
In which I shill you Nix, a purely functional package manager. Why Nix? Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of Erlang, once described Erlang…