Tag: Web

Make your system more predictable by using idempotent interfaces

Patryk Bąk

May 04, 2021

Let's analyze how a toggle button that turns activity on and off, can be designed and implemented, on the server-side.

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Is Code Review harmful?

Maciej Kaszubowski

Aug 31, 2020

How does code review affect your team? Can it be harmful? This article lists some issues that can be related to code review and some ideas for improvement.

Engineering

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#Backend

#Web

Concurrency and parallelism with Elixir and BEAM

Patryk Bąk

Aug 25, 2020

Patryk from our Backend team explains the differences between concurrency and parallelism, based on Elixir and BEAM.

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Handling failures in background workers with Elixir and supervisors

Patryk Bąk

Jul 07, 2020

Elixir allows us to write systems that can run practically forever. Does that mean that we don't have to do anything to make our systems reliable?

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Why shouldn't you use Elixir code in database migrations?

Patryk Bąk

Jun 17, 2020

Elixir code used in migrations can cause troubles when we decide to start up our system with an empty database. But we'll help you to deal with that!

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How to migrate live production data

Patryk Bąk

Jun 01, 2020

Even simple migrations can be dangerous and when executed incorrectly can lead to errors and downtimes. Avoid these problems with our dev team tips.

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How I changed the default structure of Elixir project to suit my preferences more

Tobiasz Małecki

Nov 27, 2019

Reasonable defaults can make your life easier but what reasonable means? How many benefits can the personalized default structure of Elixir project bring?