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Approaches for converting imperative loops into functional Elixir.

A Phoenix LiveView is a Process, let's discuss what that means!

How I set up Ecto to use prefixed base62 UUIDv7 Object IDs

Process dictionaries are useful, can solve specific problems, and are not evil

I've been using LiveView for about two years now. It's a great framework that makes snappy and responsive pages. One anti-pattern I see fa...

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This post is about how to add Dialyzer to an existing Elixir project to get the benefits today without being overwhelmed fixing all the legacy problems.

Runtime application self protection (RASP) for Elixir, from Paraxial.io

How to not write benchmarks

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Most of us are familiar with IP addresses: they are strings of the form “ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd” where ddd is a decimal number of up to three digits in the range 0 to 255. For example, 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.2. Each of the four number is a byte value, and the address is n IPv4 network address that … Continue reading Parsing IP addresses crazily fast

Ever wondered the impact ChatGPT can have on your Elixir code? Oleg Tarasenko has put the AI tool to the test and shares his interesting results.

My thoughts one month into learning the Elixir programming language

When I started coding in Elixir (around 2016), I was working for a financial company. Our product aut...

Publish-Subscribe is a messaging pattern that works as follows: a group of consumers subscribe to events of a given topic and are notified whenever an event of that topic arrives. When an event is published into a topic channel, the channel delivers a copy of the message to each of the output channels. The advantage of this is we can decouple the consumers from the producers. Neither party need knowledge of each other to communicate. In other words, pub-sub is a pattern used to communicate messages between different system components without the components knowing anything about each other’s identity. Let’s look at an implementation of Publish-Subscribe in Elixir. The full source code is provided below.

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Discover how you can best use Absinthe for data-heavy Elixir applications.

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How to migrate from legacy Phoenix routes to the newer Verified Routes in Phoenix 1.7.

TIL is an open-source project by Hashrocket that exists to catalogue the sharing & accumulation of knowledge as it happens day-to-day.

Chronicling, plugin systems, and six other disjointed ideas combine in an argument of how to "engineerize" software more

Open-source Elixir alternatives to popular AI tools like ChatGPT offer benefits like better control, reduced costs, and more.

Implementing async background jobs in Python on Fly Machines.