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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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: Docker…
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 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.