Awesome Elixir Newsletter

Popular News and Articles

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  IEx Persistent History

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  [Video and slides] Operable Erlang and Elixir - Fred Hebert @ Code BEAM SF

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  Elixir Streams to process large HTTP responses on the fly

  www.poeticoding.com
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  Elixir: Gracefully Shutting Down GenServer Process - [026]

  www.codemy.net
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  [Video and slides] Functional farming with Nerves - Connor Rigby @ Code BEAM SF

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  How we Built a Highly Performant App with Ruby on Rails and Phoenix

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  No silver bullets: NodeJs, Elixir & Go

  around25.com

  15+ years of coding and it took learning several languages to understand there is no silver bullet when it comes to choosing the right technology for a project. This road includes transitioning from NodeJS to Elixir then to Go, in the pursuit of a more flexible tech stack.

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  AWS IoT Core, Elixir, and Nerves: A Crash Course

  www.verypossible.com

  Build on a solid foundation of Nerves, quickly write robust firmware in Elixir, and rocket through the clouds with AWS. Along the way this post will expose you to some of the biggest pieces of the IoT puzzle.

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  From 0 to DynamicSupervisor — Handling Processes in Elixir

  coletiv.com

  With Java it’s possible to use processes and parallelize them but it isn’t common and it’s always a struggle. With Elixir I found another world that, citing Bruce Williams, doesn’t treat concurrency and process management like afterthoughts or advanced features. A few months ago Elixir was updated to version 1.6 which introduced the DynamicSupervisor.

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• credo
  

  » Code Analysis

  A static code analysis tool with a focus on code consistency and teaching elixir.

• guardian
  

  » Authentication

  An authentication framework for use with elixir applications.

• distillery
  

  » Release Management

  A pure elixir implementation of release packaging functionality for the erlang vm.

• Rebar3
  

  » Build Tools

  Erlang build tool that makes it easy to compile and test erlang applications and releases.

• hackney
  

  » HTTP Client

  Simple http client written in erlang.

• ex_prompt
  

  » Command Line Applications

  Helper package to add interactivity to your command line applications as easy as possible.

• Coney
  

  Consumer server for rabbitmq.

• DeepMerge
  

  » Algorithms and Data structures

  Deep (recursive) merge for maps, keywords and others in elixir

• Mockery
  

  » Testing

  Simple mocking library for asynchronous testing in elixir.

• serum
  

  » Static Page Generation

  A simple static website generator written in elixir.