Elixir Lessons Our Software Engineers Learned, So You Don’t Have To
At Revelry, we’ve been big fans of Elixir since its introduction by Jose Valim in 2014. A functional, general-purpose programming language built on Erlang…
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Announcing TextChunker: Flexible Semantic Text Chunking for Elixir
Introduction Today, we’re excited to announce the open-source release of TextChunker! This library empowers Elixir developers to break down large text documents into meaningful…
From Ruby Roots to Elixir Excellence: Inside Our Slax Project Management Tool
Every software development team has its unique set of challenges when it comes to project management and communication flow. Enter **Slax**, our bespoke Slack…
#RevTWIL: How to Debug Elixir with Visual Studio (VS)
At Revelry, we believe in sharing and learning from one another (beliefs that are rooted in our Core Values). Among the many things we do…
Data Pipelines in Elixir
Have you been looking to do something in Elixir outside of the usual Phoenix website? Or do you need to do some data processing…
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…
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…
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…
An Implementation of Conway’s Game of Life Using Ramda and Functional JavaScript
Once he wrote his own implementation of Conway’s Game of Life, Jonathan finally felt like a real programmer. He continues to apply this tactic when learning a new language or library. Here, he shares the results of using it on Ramda.