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.
Check out some of our tech team’s latest insights and opinions below, and then sign up for our monthly e-newsletter for more.
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 and How to Manage 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.
A Simple Leader Election Solution for Kubeadm in an AWS ASG
At Revelry, we use kubeadm to build our Kubernetes clusters. Here’s the four-step process we used to setup and test kubeadm in an AWS ASG.
My Favorite Functions and Patterns: Function Clauses in Elixir
Elixir is far too generous. I realize how cossetted I am when I go to use function clauses in JavaScript. Because you can’t do…
How We Use GitOps with Kubernetes Featuring Helm and Secrets
Since the implementation team is already using GitHub on a daily basis to track work and deploy code to our project repositories, our Cluster Ops team has adopted the GitOps philosophy. Having a centralized place for all of our configuration and the ability to view all deployments in a friendly, comfortable environment makes Kubernetes more accessible to the rest of the team.
Elixir Releases: Moving Quickly Past Elixir 1.8 and Distillery 2.0
Elixir 1.9 has been released with built-in support for releases, a need that was previously served (and continues to be) by the Distillery package.
8 Super Simple Steps to Launch an App with Kubernetes API
Anything you can do from the Kubernetes command-line interface (kubectl), you can do through the Kubernetes API. Here’s how to build an app in 8 steps.
What makes GraphQL better than (the) REST?
What is GraphQL? The Graph Query Language is an API specification created by Facebook that provides an efficient, declarative and flexible alternative to REST.
Problem Solving and Learning on the Job as a Software Engineer
A while back several Revelers were chatting in Slack about learning and working as a software engineer. Some interesting ideas were being thrown around…
How to Delegate with Defdelegate
Software engineer and Elixir pro Bryan Joseph explains how to delegate functions to another module with a secret weapon, also knowns as defdelegate.
How to Cope with Growing Pains of a Scaling Culture
Don’t Get Turned Into Spaghetti By Tidal Forces As You Approach The Event Horizon Opinions about ‘scaling’ and ‘change management’ that flood expanding companies…
Ecto, You Got Some ‘Splainin To Do
Ecto is a powerful tool for interacting with databases. By adding `EXPLAIN` to the SQL strings, I was able to quickly troubleshoot and get the job done.