on elixir, elixir adoption

An Elixir Adoption Success Story

How a team that was new to Elixir over-delivered a big project in just three months.… »

on elixir, recursion, control flow, pattern matching, guard clauses

Eloquent Control Flow + Efficient Time Complexity in Elixir

In this post, I break down my Advent of Code Day 1 solution and dive into how you can use recursion, pattern matching and custom guard clauses to implement even complex logic and control flow in an easy-to-reason about way that also avoids common time complexity pitfalls.… »

on elixir, erlang, exunit, genservers, testing, rabbitmq

Testing GenServers with Erlang Trace

Thanks to lots of Googling and some help from a friend, I learned you can test that a GenServer received a message with the help of Erlang tracing.… »

on agile, project management, teams

We're All Project Managers Now

Engineers thinking like project managers makes for higher performing teams, whether you're remote and async or not.… »

on go, concurrency, channels, waitgroups, debugging

Synchronizing Go Routines with Channels and WaitGroups

In debugging a mysteriously hanging Go function recently, I learned something new about how to use WaitGroups and Channels to synchronize Go routines. Keep reading to learn more!… »