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.

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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.

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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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Last time we talked about encodings, we went in with a C++-like design where we proved that

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How to use Neo4j in an Elixir project with real time updates. Presented September 8, 2017 at ElixirConf 2017.

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