Gabriel Ortuño — Staff Engineering Notes

When BEAM Is the Right Runtime

A practical guide for engineers evaluating Erlang and Elixir for resilient systems

Jun 7 • Gabriel Ortuño

February 2026

Is Elixir’s Observability Ready for Production? A Guide for Skeptical Engineers

From BEAM introspection to OpenTelemetry: how Elixir actually behaves in production

Feb 1 • Gabriel Ortuño

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January 2026

Elixir’s Gradual Type System (1.17–1.20): How the Compiler Finally Understands Your Code

How the compiler now reasons about your code and how to take advantage of it

Jan 18 • Gabriel Ortuño

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Elixir’s Tooling: What You Get Out of the Box

A practical tour of the core tools, developer experience, and the trade-offs shaped by the BEAM.

Jan 9 • Gabriel Ortuño

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December 2025

A philosophy of software design

Techniques to reduce the complexity on software

Dec 26, 2025 • Gabriel Ortuño

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May 2020

April 2020

DRY

Don’t repeat yourself is a principle of software development aimed at reducing repetition of code and replace it with abstractions.

Apr 23, 2020 • Gabriel Ortuño

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How to Refactor

When you have to add a new requirement to an existing code, first you should check if the code is open to the new change.

Apr 14, 2020 • Gabriel Ortuño

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When to Refactor

Refactoring is not an activity you should set time aside to do.

Apr 12, 2020 • Gabriel Ortuño

Refactoring

Refactoring is a technique for restructuring code in a way that you improve the design, but don’t change the its external behaviour.

Apr 11, 2020 • Gabriel Ortuño

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Zero Bug Software Development

Zero Bug Software Development is a policy to archive an state of zero known bugs.

Apr 7, 2020 • Gabriel Ortuño

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Flocking rules

The flocking rules are an small set of rules for refactoring code.

Apr 5, 2020 • Gabriel Ortuño

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