Back-End Engineering
Revelry’s talented engineering team – comprised of front- and back-end developers – offers expertise in a wide range of languages, frameworks, and capabilities. In addition to long-time favorites, like Elixir and Phoenix, they enjoy exploring “what’s new and what’s next,” and then sharing about it.
Codebase Decisions, Part 2: Best Practices
In part one of this two-part blog series, we looked at two approaches to codebase decisions: working with existing code patterns and refactoring for…
Codebase Decisions, Part 1: Refactoring vs. Working with Existing Patterns
Codebase decisions aren’t just about writing code. They’re about making choices that shape the reliability, maintainability, and overall quality of software. Since requirements, technologies,…
Lessons Learned from the Hackers Hall of Infamy
Curiosity is at the heart of what we do – both in software engineering in general and at Revelry in particular. Building or improving:…
What’s New in Phoenix 1.7 + LiveView .18 – File Structure and Templates
I recently had the opportunity to use Phoenix 1.7 and LiveView .18.3 in a production environment and it was, in a word, amazing. It’s…
20+ Questions to Ask for a Successful Code Review
Code audits are critical to preventing unstable code from being shared with the world or shipped to customers (gasp!), and they should be a…
Programmatic Parallels of Signal Flow
By Matt AguiluzRevelry Alumni Signal flow is something I find endlessly fascinating. The process of receiving input, processing it, and returning output is relatively…
Stop Camouflaging Your Software Bugs
Termites and software bugs have this in common: they must be identified and managed quickly to avoid devastation. Termites can destroy the structural integrity…
Use Svelte for Speed and Magic
Many web developers use JavaScript to make their websites responsive and reactive. With the advent of Node.js and npm, many devs have moved from…
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 in our apprentice program in 2014. After seven and a…
The Fractal Nature of the Revelry Software Development Process
“There’s a fractal nature to the Revelry software development process. Whenever I advise someone who is stuck using our process, I see this psychedelic,…
Converting Phoenix mix.gen.live Files to Surface Compatible Files
Introduction One of the most handy features of Phoenix 1.6+ is the ability to use mix phx.gen.live to easily generate Liveviews, templates, and a…
A Beginner’s Guide to Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails (also just called Rails) is a vital part of software development in today’s world. It is a server-side framework written in…
Building Software 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…