Awesome Elixir Newsletter

Popular News and Articles

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  Pearls of Elixir - Interesting patterns from popular Elixir packages

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  Benchmarking Go vs Node vs Elixir

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  How We Learned Elixir—Our Story and Tutorial for Beginners

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  Connecting Elixir Nodes with libcluster, locally and on Kubernetes

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  Setting up CI in Elixir with CircleCI

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  Introduction to handle_continue in Elixir (and when to use it)

  medium.com
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  Async Task Streams in Elixir

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  How to store 'last seen' for users in Phoenix

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Product Graveyard

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  The Product Graveyard - Commemorating all software products that have been discontinued

  A list with all popular products that have shut down and their alternatives

Featured packages

• floki
  

  » HTML

  A simple html parser that enables searching using css like selectors.

• Hex
  

  » Package Management

  A package manager for the erlang ecosystem.

• faker
  

  » Testing

  Faker is a pure elixir library for generating fake data.

• excoveralls
  

  » Code Analysis

  Coverage report tool for elixir with coveralls.io integration.

• kafka_ex
  

  » Queue

  Kafka client library for elixir.

• RDF.ex
  

  » Frameworks

  An implementation of rdf for elixir

• geocalc
  

  » Geolocation

  Calculate distance, bearing and more between latitude/longitude points.

• Google Maps
  

  » Geolocation

  Google maps api written in elixir

• exop
  

  » Validations

  A library that allows to encapsulate business logic and validate params with predefined contract.

• logster
  

  » Logging

  Easily parsable, one-line logging for phoenix and plug applications, inspired by lograge.