Our experience writing Elixir microservices

Our feedback after spending a year writing Elixir…

Go as a scripting language

At Heetch, in order to handle growth, we went from a Rails application to a bunch of Go services running in containers, so we had to rewrite scripts that handled deployments.

First iteration consisted of basic Bash scripts and it did the job perfectly…

Software engineers don’t scale

… or how I learned to stop worrying and love commenting my code.

Developer Care

Restoring the common core in a micro-service world

Using ReactiveX to build reliable stateless mobile applications

Design exploration is never a waste of time

Take any House M.D. episode: a patient has been assigned to Dr House because the…

An Elixir Plug that targets a specific path

Plug is a cornerstone of Elixir and handling HTTP requests. It’s striking how simple it is to write one:

A Visual Guide To React Mental Models

I’ve learned that the biggest difference between someone that…

How We Supercharged Growth at Heetch with Mix Media Optimization