I have recently finished reading the book Learn Functional Programming with Elixir, from Ulisses Almeida, published by PragProg. I was curious about this book in  particular because I wanted to know how a book that explains functional programming for people that are starting this journey would be My path to learning functional programming was not … »

We are glad to welcome Wojtek Mach to the Research and Development department at Plataformatec. Wojtek will help us towards our Elixir efforts, contributing to Open Source, communicating with our Elixir teams across multiple projects and joining our Elixir Development Subscription team. Wojtek is a software engineer with 10 years of experience. He started working … »

Polêmica! Ainda esses dias, conversava com um responsável pelo capítulo de agilidade de uma startup sobre reports de projeto sedutores e o mal que eles podem fazer. A situação é a seguinte: não habituados com a forma como as métricas de projetos ágeis são apresentadas – CFDs, histogramas de Throughput, Lead Time etc. – e … »

I’ve been working on Plataformatec for 5 years and one common mistake that I see developers making is hiding the error, instead of fixing the problem. This kind of behaviour can turn your product full of problems quickly by having a codebase with unnecessary defensive programming. Let’s explore that by taking a look at an … »

Caso você tenha assistido alguma palestra sobre ágil na sua vida ou tenha participado de algum treinamento sobre o assunto, é bem provável que você tenha interagido com o conceito de Shu Ha Ri. Para quem não conhece, o nome tem origem no Aikido e foi introduzido no ambiente de desenvolvimento de software por Alistair … »

Flow v0.14 has been recently released with more fine grained control on data emission and tighter integration with GenStage. In this blog post we will start with a brief recap of Flow and go over the new changes. We end the post with a description of the new Elixir Development Subscription service by Plataformatec and … »