Estimates Are More Valuable Than You Think
A reflection on how software estimation, often seen as a tool for micromanagement, actually builds trust and improves team communication when done right.
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Thoughts on software engineering, leadership, and the Elixir ecosystem
A reflection on how software estimation, often seen as a tool for micromanagement, actually builds trust and improves team communication when done right.
A reflection on why software engineers often overvalue uninterrupted coding time when their highest impact work actually happens through collaboration and staying connected to the bigger picture.
A counterintuitive exploration of why defensive programming with excessive error handling creates less resilient systems than those designed to fail fast and explicitly.
A deep dive into why shipping small, daily pull requests transforms both your productivity and your team's collaboration, even though it requires rethinking how you structure your work.
Using distributed Elixir to upgrade a node local rate limiter
I’m incredibly excited to announce the new web-based Hex package differ: diff.hex.pm, maintained by the Hex team!
I wanted to give some insight into the Hex Diff project, how it works, and some issues we ran into on the way.
GenStage is a pull-based system, where consumers pull events from the producers, and most of the documentation describes this
Elixir doesn’t provide its own data structures, instead, it uses the ones provided by Erlang
This article attempts to show some basic patterns for how to use ETS in Elixir or Erlang
I want to share a simple pattern for setting up HTTP based health checks for Plug/Phoenix applications
I want to share a simple pattern for setting up HTTP based health checks for Plug/Phoenix applications
This post was inspired by a thread I participated in on the Elixir forum