As consultants, our job is to provide the most value possible to our clients over the course of our engagement. As engineers, our desire is to build software that is a joy to work on. Thankfully, these goals are not mutually exclusive. In trying to meet both of them, it helps to focus on building well-designed applications. Since “well-designed” is a fairly nebulous term, I’ll lean on Sandi Metz to provide a definition.…
It’s no secret that we here at MojoTech are big advocates of Elixir. We’re using it on client projects, talking about it at conferences, Elixir meetups, and we’re even involved in an incredible conference this fall, Elixir with Love. We’ve spent a fair amount of time getting to know the ins and outs, so we decided to share some of our Mojos favorite Elixir links and resources. Feel free to add some of your own favorites in the comments!…
You are likely one of the many folks (myself included) who have recently learned to love Elixir. I initially started down the wrong road with Elixir, but I learned a valuable lesson as I corrected course. It takes some adjustment to view the world in terms of a functional language, with lightweight processes, running on the Erlang Virtual Machine. My realization was that thinking in terms of visual diagrams enables this important mental shift.…
Don’t let failing APIs get you down. (Zing!) If your software depends on various services, service failures can compromise part of your application or bring your application down entirely. This simple problem gave rise to a powerful software pattern called a circuit breaker. It allows your software to stay up gracefully, even if it depends on something that is experiencing a failure. Let’s implement a circuit breaker in our Elixir API, with the Erlang library called Fuse.…
On paper, MojoTech’s resume looks pretty impressive. Since its inception in 2008, MojoTech has launched more than 100 products by partnering with clients to deliver software that solves their most complex business problems. MojoTech was ranked the 42nd fastest growing software company in America by Inc. Magazine, and was listed as one of 2016’s Best Places to Work for the third year running, by Providence Business News, who also awarded co-founder Chris Shoemaker “CTO of the Year”.…