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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.

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

Learn how to build a finite state machine with gen_statem in Elixir

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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An introduction to Elixir's Structs, and how to get around some of their limitations when developing libraries.

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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.

(Best viewed on larger screens) What is it? Given the number of digits to maintain, and a starting positive integer i with no more...

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.

1. Naming convention

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

Yes, it's the replace function in chapter 9

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

Accessing Neo4j from Elixir with Bolt and Cypher

What is a hash function and how to calculate the hash strings and files in Elixir, using functions in :crypto module and Elixir Streams

Elixir File.stream! lines vs chunks. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

You can download the code from this article from GitHub Elixir in itself does not have functions to...

How to use Erlangs cryptographic hash functions from Elixir.

Simple nix-shell to get started with using nix as development environment with Elixir/Phoenix/Rust