A recent project created for the Stockholm Elixir meetup group. I used Elixir and Scenic to create a fault-tolerant spaceship dashboard for Kerbal Space Program (with a brief NASA history lesson)

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This is a continuation of the Simple Phoenix LiveView App series that started with basic setup and a minimal interactive app that captured keyboard events last time.

This time we’ll plan out schemas, look at the relatively complex associations used in a large content site like Alchemist Camp, as explained in the earlier series, and then decide on a good schema structure for this newer, simpler app.

Screencast + article + diagrams: https://alchemist.camp/episodes/phoenix-live-view-db-schemas

Latest episode released today! Check it out here: https://podcast.smartlogic.io/s3e10-debenedetto-dakin

Explore a wide array of Elixir ecosystem tools that can help you create top-notch CI pipelines.

https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/01/29/how-to-get-your-elixir-application-ready-for-ci-cd.html

A series designed for those getting started with Elixir and deployment.

https://phxroad.com/devops/deploy-elixir-phoenix-ubuntu-vps

In this post Tjaco explores how to render markdown files directly in a Phoenix app and investigates the underling mechanism of Template Engines.

https://realworldphoenix.com/blog/2020-01-28/rendering_markdown

In this episode we’ll look at how to use the Oban package to handle background job processing.

https://elixircasts.io/job-processing-with-oban

Today I upgraded my development environment by <a href=”https://nts.strzibny.name/using-elixir-language-server-in-sublime-text-3/“>installing Elixir LS</a> and actually it’s pretty nice!

One of the great things about GraphQL is how broad the abstractions are. Everything is just an “object”, with “fields”! This makes things infinitely composable, and is where a good deal of the power in GraphQL comes from. But, like all things, there are downsides to this - first and foremost (in my opinion) is that it makes organizing a project difficult. Because you can do just about anything, you might end up doing that, and having a fairly difficult time of finding things and knowing where to put stuff. But, most importantly, this can make talking about GraphQL applications difficult since some of these terms are really murky.

http://www.devonestes.com/a-proposal-for-absinthe-project-structure

I released v1.2.0 of Credo, the static code analysis tool emphasizing code consistency and teaching.

For details, please refer to the CHANGELOG.

Code BEAM STO is back with a festival of talks by and for the Erlang, Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, Nerves communities! Get the best rates now! Book conference and training tickets now!

https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sto/

In an effort to improve diversity and benefit the Elixir community, we are offering 15 scholarships to the Lonestar Elixir conference to underrepresented folks in tech - women and minorities. We’d love for you to join us February 27-28, 2020 in downtown Austin, Texas! If you are interested, go to [link] https://lonestarelixir.com/scholarships and send us an email! Come join us!

My thoughts on Lumen and a guide to trying the current bleeding-edge development version yourself. Where you can write Erlang or Elixir to run in your browser. Thanks to the Lumen team for the help on all of this.

https://underjord.io/lumen-elixir-in-the-browser.html

This is the final layer for our object store responsible for exposing it over the web. It exposes endpoints: /upload for uploading a file and /file/:file_id for getting a file by ID.

We used simple and elegant plug abstraction for providing an HTTP interface with routing, avoiding use of any web frameworks: though Phoenix is quite modular, it may not be needed for thin Web layers (as they should be).

https://nitingupta.dev/post/a-layered-object-store-design-in-elixir-part5/

Check out the latest episode of Elixir Wizards here: https://podcast.smartlogic.io/s3e9-zelenka

All Ruby/Rails developers know that for features neither provides, there is probably a Ruby Gem contributed by someone in the community that solves that problem.

Elixir’s equivalent to Ruby Gems are Hex packages. Hex is a package manager that provides reusable libraries for both Elixir and the Erlang ecosystem…

Cool Elixir libraries

Elixir on Erlang VM demystified: https://k.lelonek.me/elixir-under-the-hood

In this post we focus on the API layer of our object store. All layers till now were just concerened about storing the input file together with some file-format specific transforms (like generating thumbnails). It is at the API layer where we will be storing per-file system and user metadata. This metadata can be used to support application specific business logic and security policies.

https://nitingupta.dev/post/a-layered-object-store-design-in-elixir-part4/

How @Postlight leveraged Elixir to build a truly ephemeral chat app:

https://postlight.com/trackchanges/the-magic-elixir-behind-yap

Real-time Object Detection with Phoenix and Python

This article is about Elixir-Python interoperability with Elixir Port, and how to bring YOLO real-time object detection functionalities on a Phoenix app.