Hi! I'm Brett,
a cloud-native software engineer and solutions architect

One of the greatest features of the GIT version control system is its ability to rewrite local history before pushing it to a remote repository. Yes. Even you, a lowly programmer with your forgetfulness, clumsiness and caffeine shakes can make yourself look like a finely tuned programming God. This allows you to go back in time and start your work again with all the knowledge and code you have in the present; to reword and reorder the changes. more»

You might have read the infamous blog posts titled “Rails is Dead”, but I have seen development teams flounder over and over again when they try and reinvent the wheel using NodeJS on the backend. Rails is Scalable Despite the negative press, I’ll argue rails does scale. After developers at Twitter have spoken at length about their issues with Rails performance, it’s easy to get the wrong idea. Rails is not the fastest framework in the world… but I will argue that performance is the last thing you should worry about when you want to scale. more»

The “greenfield” project is known by developers as a productivity Nirvana. It is a beautiful place where there is no legacy, no bugs and endless possibilities. It is also littered with mines. I’ve recently seen a number of anti-patterns around the creation and early growth new projects, and thought I’d summarize the anti-patterns I’d seen in the past as a guide for developers to avoid these common pitfalls. 1. Get a Pipeline in Place Early Run your tests automatically. more»

Unity, despite being one of (if not) the most prolific games frameworks in the industry, still provides a completely lackluster path to automation and CLI support. We can do better as a community.

DISCLAIMER:

I love the Unity framework. It’s my go-to framework for games development, and a cornerstone of the technology my company Immerse builds.

This blog post is a collection of frustrations, and while negative, I think it important to voice.

Because, despite all the fantastic work the Unity team has done recently, their automation story is quite simply an after-thought, and a glaring hole in an otherwise brilliant product.

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I recently did a live coding session on a 3d audio server built in Elixir.

This project involves quite a complicated supervision tree where GenServers are created and destroyed dynamically based on users joining a room and moving around.

As such this requires in-depth logging of processes in the application.

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