Programming

When building a web application there is almost always some form of a database being utilized to persist the application's data.

Stop wasting time trying to decipher what a commit did.

Unless you already didn't know, when a LieView component is mounted on a page, it runs the mount/2 function twice. One when the page is rendered from the initial request, and one one when the socket is connected. So if you have data that is slow or resource heavy to load, you should consider to wait until the socket is connected so the intial load is not in vein. A popular approach is to use ghost cards. A ghost gard is a loading placeholder that looks similar to the content that you try to load in but without actual data. In this tutorial I will show you how

A collection of small Elixir programming language examples.

Last week I got a pleasant refresher on updating maps. As I type this it sounds like such a basic thi...

Joy of Elixir is a gentle introduction to programming, aimed at people who already know some things about computers, but who have little-to-no programming experience.

Master Anonymous Functions in Elixir by solving 3 exercises, with support from our world-class team.

I have a bit of an odd question, but I have read all sorts of Elixir documentation and textbooks in sort of an answer to this and have come up with nothing. I have a set of .txt files which each c...

Know the working of strings

When crafting an Elixir program, you often need to share a state. For example, in one of my previous articles I showed how to code a server to perform various calculations and keep the result in...

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Display code beautifully in your React app

Feature Factories are dangerous things. You might even work in one and don’t realize it yet. Here’s a test: if your team built something 6 months ago and you’ve no idea if anyone …

Probably the first in a multi-part series on DP.

Make sure to do continuous delivery

I thought it would be nice to make a streaming music service focused on bringing lo-fi artists and listeners together. Early on, I put together a series of prototypes to explore with a small group of listeners and artists. Since this is a technical article, I'll jump right into the requirements we arrived at, though I'd love to also do an article on the strategies and principles that guided our exploration.

Elixir - File IO, File IO is an integral part of any programming language as it allows the language to interact with the files on the file system. In this chapter, we will discus

We take a close look at the functions in the Tuple module.

Build concurrent and multi-stage data ingestion and data processing pipelines with Elixir.

Curated list of resources on testing distributed systems

How you can use micro-commits to effectively apply the Strangler Fig pattern.

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I'd like to think that my understanding of "async Rust" has increased over the past year or so. I'm 100% onboard with the basic principle: I would like to handle tho...