31. Adding E2E tests to an Elixir library (www.wyeworks.com)
In WyeWorks we maintain a library that sends a notification every time an exception is raised in a Plug application. Besides adding unit and…
32. Screenshot testing React Components with Viteshot (www.wyeworks.com)
In my experience across various web development projects, writing automated tests for UI components is often left aside in favor of other…
33. Benefits of outsourcing to a software agency (www.wyeworks.com)
Hiring is tough, we all know that. The process is rather tedious, it’s hard to get good people to join your team, and competition for…
34. Harnessing the Power of Responsive CSS Grids (www.wyeworks.com)
Recently, I had to implement a responsive pricing table for our remote retrospectives app, RetroAlly. Since large tables don’t work well on…
35. About agile project estimation (www.wyeworks.com)
Software development is, in essence, an industrial process like any other. But an immature one, not only because of the industry’s young age…
36. WyeWorks Playbook: How We Work (www.wyeworks.com)
This post aims to explain how a WyeWorks’ team works. It outlines the most important values and behaviors, what we expect from a team, as…
37. Our values (www.wyeworks.com)
Over the years, there’s been a phrase that’s been one of the most repeated ones at the WyeWorks office: we want to keep our culture. As an…
38. What to expect when starting a project with WyeWorks (www.wyeworks.com)
You’ve built the core of your product and now your company grew leaving no time for you to keep building great software. Maybe you’re part…
39. Breaking up a Phoenix LiveView module into components (www.wyeworks.com)
Here is a story about a little application we implemented using Phoenix Live View, how its early implementation looked, and how it evolved…
40. Our Growth Framework (www.wyeworks.com)
You know the saying: A company is only as good as its employees. If you’re in agreement, it’s a no brainer that the best investment you can…
41. How we facilitate The Sprint Retrospective meeting (www.wyeworks.com)
The purpose of this blog post is to share with you two short videos (around two minutes each) about how we facilitate the retrospective…
42. Slimming down fat channels in Phoenix (www.wyeworks.com)
In this article, we are going to discuss an approach we applied in a Phoenix project. Channels were an important part of the solution given…
43. Why we have engineers run interviews instead of HR (www.wyeworks.com)
Recruiting and hiring can be a time consuming, frustrating and hard process. Particularly for tech companies where employees are in much…
44. Foster an adaptive mindset (www.wyeworks.com)
It’s hard to let go of the way we do things. To embrace said change with arms wide open, even harder. Regardless of our job title or the…
45. Emotion Driven Habits (www.wyeworks.com)
As Software Engineers, our emotions love to go on a rollercoaster ride on a daily basis. An incoming deadline in your current project might…
46. To use or not to use the ++ operator in Elixir (www.wyeworks.com)
You may have already been warned about the risks of using the operator to concatenate lists in Elixir. In fact, a good piece of advice can…
47. Why we invest in having our teams visit clients (www.wyeworks.com)
Remotism works great. The amount of different tools that came out in the last few years enabled people to work from any part of the world…
48. What makes a great software engineer great (www.wyeworks.com)
Today I woke up wanting to start a discussion about what it takes to be an awesome software engineer. I constantly see recruiters evaluating…
49. Why a full day of Agile/Scrum? (www.wyeworks.com)
Our company was a pioneer in the use of Agile methods, especially Scrum and for the past 10 years, we have been practicing the principles…
50. Celebrating 10 years of WyeWorks (www.wyeworks.com)
WyeWorks is officially celebrating its 10 year anniversary. When we founded the company in 2008, we had very specific goals in mind: do…
51. Automating your infrastructure deployments (www.wyeworks.com)
We all know that modern applications can get very complex, very quickly. Because of that, I’ve been trying to add more automation to my…
52. Change your Daily Scrum Meeting (www.wyeworks.com)
This article tells the story of our experience implementing a shift in approach during the Daily Scrum meeting. We went from a typical…
53. Infrastructure as Code: A beginner's perspective (www.wyeworks.com)
A couple of months ago, I came to realize I might actually like DevOps. I wasn’t sure what to do, so I talked to the VP of Engineering at…
54. Testing Vue.js in Rails with Webpacker and Jest (www.wyeworks.com)
In the project I’m working on, I was given the task of investigating how to integrate Vue.js with our existing Rails app. So I started…
55. Automatically managing personal and work git configurations (www.wyeworks.com)
There was a time when I found myself constantly switching between my personal and work computers, and it was really annoying. After some…
56. How to quickly deploy a VueJS app to Heroku (www.wyeworks.com)
Recently, I have been investing some time learning VueJS and I found that it is a very interesting framework to play around with. In fact, I…
57. Using git hooks to improve your day-to-day workflow (www.wyeworks.com)
If you have been developing software for some time you have probably noticed that there are lots of things that can go wrong, no matter how…
58. New features in Ruby 2.5.0 (www.wyeworks.com)
The 2.5 series of Ruby first saw the light on October 10th, as part of the first preview release toward Ruby 2.5.0. Just a couple of months…
59. Unopinionated comparison of Glimmer and React (www.wyeworks.com)
In this article, we will discuss how different (or similar) it is to use Glimmer as compared with React. Glimmer is a new library in the…
60. Remote Retrospectives using Trello (www.wyeworks.com)
At WyeWorks, we are passionate about improving on what we do. Indeed, our software development process emphasizes continuous improvement. To…