Writing tests is an important step in software development and everyone knows the benefits. In our last post, we took a look on how to write acceptance tests in Phoenix and today we will see how to configure CI to run the tests. Install Erlang and Elixir We use Jenkins to run ours builds and … »

Every time I think about indicators and metrics I remember a phrase from H. James Harrington that says: “Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t get it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you … »

With Rails 5 soon to be released, many developers are planning to further explore Action Cable and add stateful features to their web applications via WebSockets. In this article we will highlight some points worth discussing when deploying such features. When we use HTTP, scaling horizontally and vertically is cheaper and easier as the server … »

Almost all project stakeholders are used to ask for deadlines when the subject is software development. Every time I face this type of question I usually answer something like this: — “Well, the only thing I know is that uncertainty is one of the few certainties about software development, so let’s look at the team’s … »

Acceptance testing seems to be in its first steps in the Elixir ecosystem, but there are already some cool libs that can help us out to do it. I’m going to show you how we did it with Hound. In this blog post, we’ll write a few acceptance tests for an expenses report listing page, … »

Several teams, different locations. As technology evolves, this scenario gets more and more common. When you need to set up a meeting between distributed teams, it usually leads to frustration. Noise, poor sound quality, interruptions and lack of focus tend to erode communication and make things chaotic. As a consultancy, we have learned a lot … »