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Atoms are one of the most widely used datatypes in elixir and erlang. In order to understand the internal working of elixir’s data…

In part one of this series, we introduced the CoreComponents that get generated when bootstrapping a...

Introduction I currently work at Bzzt AB, a Swedish startup building an urban logistics...

Most Elixir projects that require internationalization, localization or both use the Gettext library for translating user-facing texts.

Postgres does not support searching for names with special characters by default. Here is how to fix it.

LiveView.JS is great for client-side animations because no round-trip to the server is needed. Here's how you can use JS to animate a side drawer.

Introduction In today's building software systems that can gracefully handle failures and...

Scheduled tasks are not just a common feature in programming, but a cornerstone of an efficient organization and a fundamental component in

Tuples are a built-in collection datatype in elixir which are implemented based on the array data structure. In order to understand the…

I recently rewrote a service that was on AWS API Gateway and Lambda in Elixir and apparently that intrigued some people, so I decided to do…

Processes are central to how Elixir handles concurrency and scaling. But what exactly are processes in Elixir and how do they work? In this…

First, you need to allow the WebSocket to display the URI. You can do it by editing your endpoint.ex...

Elixir works really well for concurrent code because of it's functional nature and ability to run in...

Compare Elixir’s registries, agents, and genservers — their use cases, strengths, and examples of when to use each for service discovery…

Discover how you can use profiling in Elixir to improve how your application code performs.

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Many people live by the adage that "cleanliness is next to Godliness." They find this way of living to be much less stressful. The problem is that Data is similar to the stuff in our lives. It becomes messy once it's out of the box and played with fo...

Is there room in the Data Science world for another option? The go-to programming languages are and have been Python and R. Could there be another contender? I'd like to invite you to join me on a new series I'm calling Elixir for Data Science. In it...

Sum types are a powerful domain modeling technique. Let’s look at how to use them to remove invalid states.

How do we use Phoenix LiveView's new async_assigns functions and helpers?

Learn how to detect spam with XGBoost and Elixir and serve the model for production use.

Let's dive into how you can handle exceptions in Elixir.

A replicated cache using the Elixir libraries ConCache and Phoenix.PubSub. We show how to combine them in only 65 lines of code.

The nine nines. 99.9999999% of uptime. Whether the AXD301 actually deserves to be held up as a system of nine nines seems debatable. I am not particularly interested in that debate. Erlang has a strong record for reliability and a design intended to help you as a developer and operator achieve your nines. Maybe just five of them. Up to you really.

Unlocking the Power of UUIDs in Python: Your Guide to Universally Unique Identifiers

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

New Guidelines for Securing Elixir and Phoenix Applications.

With the NimbleOptions library, you can define powerful and flexible argument validation schemas.