At Iora Health we are on a mission to transform healthcare, starting with primary care. Part of that transformation is powered by our home-grown collaborative care platform, which we affectionately refer to as Chirp. Chirp contains all of our patients...

“A [person] is only as good as [their] tools.” is, I think, how the saying goes. Perhaps a more appropriate quote for engineering would be “An engineer is only as productive as their tools allow them to be.” For a software engineer, this encompasses...

Before writing this post I did a quick search for “Cucumber worst practices parameterization,” and didn’t come up with much. (Apparently people don’t tag their terrible scenarios with @worst or the like.)

But parameterizing your Cucumber stories is...

Using spikes is a crucial tool in the agile developers arsenal. I’ve noticed that there is often a post-spike depression in a developers speed when they begin to incorporate the concepts from the “throw away” code into the application and they must...

At Iora we are always discussing the best ways to architect our apps. We tend to do a number of things to isolate concerns and reduce complexity. Sometimes we start out creating a gem we will need, other times we extract code into libraries as complexity...