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When you start a program, it creates a ‘process’ which own its memory. Memory is allocated to a software process in blocks called ‘pages’. These pages might span 4kB, 16kB or more. For a given process, it is safe to read and write within these pages. In your code, you might allocate a 32-byte array. … Continue reading Modern vector programming with masked loads and stores

I'd like to execute some procedure on a remote node. And I'm not sure which is the best way to do this. I can write a rpc:call to do this. Or send a message by Remote ! {call, some_procedure} to th...

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If it's not obvious, we love Elixir here at Gigalixir and one of the reasons is distributed clustering. Clustering allows you to connect your app servers together and makes it simple for them to communicate with one another. Here are 5 reasons we love Elixir clustering. Pub/Sub If you've

Data modeling in Ecto takes a bit of getting used to. The goal of this post is to give a short but definitive answer to this problem.

Now that we’ve explored some simple Ecto setups, let’s get a littlebit exotic. Did you know that you can set up your application in sucha way that you can connect to multiple databases with Ecto? Ecto actually makesit super simple to do so. Let’s take a look.

Ecto is awesome. It makes dealing with SQL databases in Elixir particularly fun. Is it simple to use with legacy databases though? The…

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If you aren’t sure of a certain feature, you can experiment with feature flags to find out what users think of it before releasing it to a wider audience.

I have spent the last few years programming often in C++. The C++ langage is probably one of the hardest to master. I still learn something new every week. Furthermore, C++ is getting upgrades all the time: C++17 was a great step forward and C++20 brings even more exiting improvments. In C++, we often use … Continue reading Book Review : Template Metaprogramming with C++

In this article, Sacha Greif tries to anticipate future CSS trends and takes a look at some far-fetched and futuristic CSS features that might one day make their way to the browser.

It’s been a while since I last wrote about Elixir or Phoenix. So, when I thought about resuming my writing on Elixir, I thought I should…

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Anti-patterns are on the opposite side of the design pattern and undesirable. We should understand what are they and how to avoid them.

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I often want to program something just for fun without any expectations. But why? Well, a recent scientific paper investigated this idea of programming as play.

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