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(Don’t Fear) The Regex

This is how we significantly improved compilation time for Elixir projects that use Gettext, using a few metaprogramming tricks and ten years of Elixir experience since we wrote the first version of this library.

Discover the benefits of FLAME and see how it can offload intensive tasks to remote machines.

Sick of flaky Rails system tests? Try blaming Selenium and swapping it with Playwright! I did and it's going great. Here's how

I've kept very busy recently and as I look at what I published last it has clearly kept me from blogging. I don't love that. I like having a blog and I like tending to it. I've not missed a beat on the newsletter's weekly cadence but that might not be your jam. Let's catch up. I've been diving into embedded Linux with Elixir.

I adore Nerves. I recently joined the core team. And I'll be doing my best to help people get along with this lovely way to co-mingle hardware and massively concurrent reliable software.

This article explores the design decisions of typing lists and tuples in Elixir within a sound gradual type system

Learn how to build custom Hex repositories using codemix hex.registry build/code that ships with Hex since version 0.21

Let's discuss the options Elixir developers have available when it comes to the use of Redis

Shows how to sign and verify HTTP requests with Elixir. This is useful for webhooks and communications between servers on the Web.

Thus, making sure that the token is being used by the same web browser used to authenticate in the first place? Note: I am using Guardian.

cuckoo_filter is a high-performance, concurrent, and mutable Cuckoo Filter implemented using atomics for Erlang and Elixir. A Cuckoo Filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure for approximated set-membership queries. It can be used to test whether an element is a member of a set in constant time with a low rate of false positives. By using erlang atomics we have fast and concurrent access for read and write operations. It is implemented in erlang so you can use it in both erlang...

A case study of how Elixir is being used at Veeps.

Learn how to build robust and dynamic embeddable web apps using LiveState for Elixir.

How to use native Phoenix LiveView and Ecto features to enable forms with dynamic key/value input needs.

🔛 an Elixir reverse proxy Plug with HTTP/2, chunked transfer and path proxying support - tallarium/reverse_proxy_plug: 🔛 an Elixir reverse proxy Plug with HTTP/2, chunked transfer and path proxying...

A Plug based, reverse proxy server written in Elixir. - slogsdon/elixir-reverse-proxy

Lately, I’ve been working on my Ethereum JSON RPC Client https://github.com/hswick/exw3. One of the dependencies it uses is…

This article details how to implement soft-delete in Ecto using PostgreSQL rules and views

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.