Refactoring Our Engineering Skills Matrix

At Expert360, we want to provide a framework an environment…

Why you should stop making developer candidates do tests

Dynamic Supervisors in Elixir

In Erlang and Elixir, an application is a process which supervises a tree of child processes. This tree is, unsurprisingly, referred to as “the supervision tree”.

Traditionally, when an application is started, it will also start a supervisor:

How we plan: Product Increments

As a fast-growing technology company the challenges of working together effectively are ever present…

The curly thing about “Full-Stack”

I’ve been coding for a pretty long time. Since 1994 if you include the early Q-BASIC programs I wrote as a teenager. I’ve always believed that if there were important gaps in my knowledge I could work to fill them pretty quickly. As the web development world emerged in…

Currying functions in Elixir

Today I realised that you can curry functions in Elixir and it kind of rocked my world.

A powerful but not widely known feature of languages like Ruby, JavaScript (and many others!) is the ability to define a new function as the partially called version…

The Subtleties of Debate in Engineering Teams

Diverse opinions in engineering teams can lead to great…

Meet Samantha Wirasinha

Meet one of our very own developers Samantha, a Software Engineer here at Expert360. She’s one of our newest…