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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Converting Phoenix mix.gen.live Files to Surface Compatible Files

May 23, 2022September 6, 2024 |Revelry Team
Elixir / Phoenix Front-End, UI / UX Engineering

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

April 30, 2022September 12, 2024 |Revelry Team
Back-End Engineering Ruby / 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…

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Building Software is Like Creating a Theatre Production

April 21, 2022September 12, 2024 |Revelry Team
Product Management Back-End Engineering

As a person who is new to coding, I like to try to find parallels for things that are more familiar to me. Since…

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How to Kill Staging Without “Testing in Production”

April 12, 2022September 12, 2024 |Jason Pollentier
Back-End Engineering Testing and Security

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…

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Your Brain != A Computer

April 7, 2022September 13, 2024 |Stuart Page
Off the Beaten Path Back-End Engineering

Stuart Page Former Assistant Psychologist, current Revelry Software Engineer “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be…

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Wordle as a Metaphor for the Software Development Process

March 31, 2022September 12, 2024 |Jason Pollentier
Back-End Engineering Front-End, UI / UX Engineering Product Management

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…

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Tackling Hard Problems Head-On (Can Be a Mistake)

March 24, 2022September 12, 2024 |Jason Pollentier
Back-End Engineering

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…

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Web3 x Liveview: Crystal Adkins Presents at the Big Elixir 2022

March 18, 2022September 12, 2024 |Revelry Team
Elixir / Phoenix Blockchain / Crypto

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…