Programming

Working on the Nerves project, the Embedded framework for Elixir, has given me an increased appreciation for how Frank Hunleth and his collaborators through the years have structured things. And while I've found crossing into the Linux-heavy part of it difficult and frustrating there has been reasonable steps to take all the way from building the application layer in Elixir all the way back to fighting the bootloader. I'll try to detail how a Nerves system is built up in this post.

Learn about the Nix on its functionality as a package manager, insights about using Nix in production, and a guide on integrating Nix with Elixir apps

The Nerves project is a way of building embedded Linux devices where the BEAM virtual machine takes care of running things. This does not constrain what you can run.

Kamal is a deployment tool designed for deploying containerized applications. It’s specifically optimized for use with docker based applications, simplifying the process of building, deployin…

With our initial mockups complete, we were eager to start coding in LiveView Native (LVN). There are two primary ways to debug our iOS app: using Xcode or LVN Go.

This post describes the use of the Erlang xmler library to process XML in Elixir. Two example modules are provided. Both search XML files for a regular expression. One uses a tree walk approach, while the other uses xpath. In addition, we learn how to use Erlang records in Elixir.

Explore the Saga pattern in Elixir for managing complex, multi-step processes. Learn about choreography and orchestration approaches, with code examples for implementing long-lived transactions.

How we rolled out zstandard and other improvements across our gateway cluster to reduce the amount of bandwidth that’s used by our clients.

The lines that divide us, for better or for worse

We're showcasing people building with LiveView Native and the success they've had doing so.

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If a value mutates in the forest with no one to see it, does it really mutate?

Welcome to the first post of our development diary for the Bonfire native app. In this series, we'll journey together through the entire process of designing and publishing Bonfire on the Apple App Store using LiveView Native.

Dive into the world of passwordless authentication as we explore implementing Passkeys in a Phoenix Elixir app using SimpleWebAuthn. Learn how to handle registration and authentication flows, including the crucial process of encoding and decoding public credential keys between TypeScript and Elixir.

It's a classic job interview question. Learn how to give the answer that's specific to the Phoenix framework

My diatribe about adding support for ParadeDB to Ecto

An overview of the new data channels API in Elixir WebRTC

Learn how Livebook, FLAME, and Nx enable effortless AI scaling across GPU clusters, right from your laptop.

After diving into memory issues in Elixir in my previous post, I had the chance to give a talk at the Curiosum Elixir meetup. Since I had…

Learn the basics of Go, Google's powerful programming language. This beginner's guide covers everything from installation to writing your first Go program, along with key features like concurrency and error handling.

Maelstrom is a fast Rust, Go, and Python test runner that runs every test in its own container. Tests are either run locally or distributed to a clustered job runner. - maelstrom-software/maelstrom

In part 3 of this series, we'll learn about defining macros using defmacro, handling quoted expressions, and understanding macro pitfalls.

Interested in Elixir? This quickstart guide teaches you the basics and gets you coding in 30 minutes.

In OctoCut, I have to perform a few tasks that are CPU or memory intensive. Instead of performing them on the machine serving web requests, I want to perform them on a different machine. FLAME is perfect for this. (If you're not familiar with FLAME, I highly recommend checking out

Tips for Elixir developers that want to to use Mnesia.

Shining some light on how phoenix built additional layers of abstraction on top of the primitives of message passing on the BEAM.

All you need to build fully functional, real-time applications in Elixir.