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Elixir vs Scala
Ludwik Bukowski and Kacper Mentel compare the results of a pattern recognition app implemented in Elixir and Scala.
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Verifying a Distributed System with Combinatorial Topology
Veronica Lopez shares her experience with containers and Kubernetes, including flexible autoscaling and refined testing & delivery experiences, that make sense within an Elixir environment.
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Modeling the Real World with Elixir/OTP
Aish Raj Dahal talks about concurrency support and error handling in Elixir.
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A Practical Guide to GenStage with a Real-Life Use Case
Gyanendra Aggarwal introduces Elixir GenStage, a back-pressure abstraction, demonstrating how to use it through a real case warehouse automation.
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Writing Extensible Functional Code
Renan Ranelli discusses Protocols (Elixir & Clojure) and TypeClasses (Haskell) and relates them to alternatives in other languages (Mixins in Ruby and Extension Methods in C#).
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Turn Hours into Seconds - Concurrent Event Processing
Emil Soman discusses implementing a thread safe solution to a concurrency problem using Flow, Elixir's concurrent computation library.
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Always Available
Claudio Ortolina discusses leveraging Elixir/OTP tools to provide continuous service even when a database is down, walking through the refactoring of an Elixir/Phoenix/PostgreSQL application.
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Background Processing with RabbitMQ
Tatsuya Ono introduces TaskBunny, a background processing library, discussing implementation details and why they chose RabbitMQ over Erlang process/OTP.
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Wobserver: Easy to Integrate Monitoring and Debugging
Ian Luites introduces wobserver, discussing the background of the project and showing how to mount it into a Phoenix application, hook it up to Prometheus, and deploy it behind a load balancer.
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Refactoring Elixir - Lessons Learned from a Year on Exercism.Io
Devon Estes discusses some common, but less than optimal, solutions to some of the problems on exercism.io followed by refactoring, showing the performance improvements and tradeoffs made.
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Elixir and Money
Tomasz Kowal discusses using Elixir for a financial application, handling rounding errors, designing APIs that gracefully handle network and hardware failures, and crashing the app during design.
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One and Only One Process in a Distributed System
Nathan Herald discusses the possibility to create a distributed system with one process representing every user / shared resource in Elixir.