How to Get Hired as a Front-End Design Engineer
What does it take to join the Revelry design team? After seven years of hiring front-end designers, VP of Design Laura Eble shares her…
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The Bitcoin Extended Public Key: Explaining the Mystery
Scanning, paths, hardened keys, derived addresses…these are just a smattering of the ‘fun’ nomenclature that awaits you if you dip your toe in the…
Converting Phoenix mix.gen.live Files to Surface Compatible Files
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…
How to Kill Staging Without “Testing in Production”
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…
Tackling Hard Problems Head-On (Can Be a Mistake)
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…
Nix: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Today we explore Nix, a purely functional package manager. Why Nix? Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of Erlang, once described Erlang as the…
Online Planning Poker for Accelerated Decision Making
Planning poker is an important part of estimating time spent on a project. But how do companies that recently went remote do planning poker? Here’s how we do planning poker for remote teams.
Slack Communication With Clients and Partners — Our How and Why
At Revelry, we have a pretty solid internal Slack communication structure. Here’s how we collaborate with multiple innovation partners on Slack.
The Tools
Tool Cheat Sheet We use these tools to automate our development — try them out and let us know how they do. GitHub – Story…
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.
Our Remote Workstations & the Products We Love
We understand how involved it can be as you acclimate to remote work culture, especially during times like these. With years of remote work under our belt, we’d like to help by sharing our own work from home setups and some of the tools and products that we love.
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.
7 Tips for Context Switching Without Losing Momentum
Our process requires trust and skill at context switching. Here are the best ways to make it easy for yourself and others to switch tasks and cope with juggling project work.
9 Common UX Design Mistakes That Will Confuse Your User [and How To Fix!]
Although we might not be able to anticipate and avoid every user’s pain points, we can minimize by avoiding these common UX design mistakes.