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Creating a software application is like creating a theatre production

April 21, 2022May 13, 2022 |Kamrin Kennedy
Development

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, 2022April 5, 2022 |Jason Pollentier
Development

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, 2022June 29, 2022 |Stuart Page
Development

Stuart Page – former Assistant Psychologist, current 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 software process

March 31, 2022April 8, 2022 |Jason Pollentier
Development

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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Case Study: Revelry Helped MediaKits Grow Exponentially

March 30, 2022April 7, 2022 |Rev Team
Growth

After five months of teaming up with Revelry, MediaKits grew exponentially, from less than 1,000 users to over 15,000. The product is now monetized,…

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Tackling hard problems head-on (can be a mistake)

March 24, 2022March 30, 2022 |Jason Pollentier
Development

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, 2022March 18, 2022 |Rev Team
Elixir

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…

Why Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Makes User Stories 100% Better

February 27, 2022December 29, 2022 |Josh Frank
Development

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.