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.
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Software Engineer Apprenticeship: The Definitive Guide
This is a complete guide to preparing for and landing a software engineer apprenticeship — that leads to a full-time job! If you want…
Why Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Makes User Stories 100% Better
At Revelry, we use BDD for all members of the team — and yes, that team includes our clients — so that everyone is clear about the intended user experience in the final product. Revelry’s flavor of BDD is a process for describing software features that is biased toward user’s actions and the results of those actions.
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…
How to set up a local SQL Server container with Docker – Windows 10
It is quite simple to set up a local instance of SQL Server container with Docker on a Windows 10 machine. Step 1 Download…
When to Use Ruby On Rails
Ruby on Rails runs on Ruby, which is an open source language that has been around since the 1990s. What is Ruby? One of…
6 Reasons PHP is a Mutant Toolbox
“Imagine you have a toolbox. A set of tools, looks okay, standard stuff in there. You pull out a screwdriver, you see it’s one…
3 Approaches to Solving the New Year Chaos Logic Problem
Software engineer, Jonathan Walters, breaks down three approaches he took to solve the New Year Chaos logic problem from HackerRank.
How To Setup GitHub Authentication for an Exposed Service in Kubernetes
Setting up an exposed service or ingress on a Kubernetes cluster needs authentication with OAuth 2 Proxy: here’s how to get it done in 6 easy steps.
Common Code Review Pitfalls for Managers and How to Deal with Them
Learn how to avoid common code review pitfalls that engineering managers face.
Hone your team’s code reviews at the Git Pull Request level.
Getting Started with Image Formats for Web
What are the best image formats for web? Saving an optimized file in an appropriate format can have a big impact on website speed.