I understood arrays and linked lists, but I had no idea how programming languages use them under the hood, so I thought it was a perfect opportunity to learn why Elixir uses linked lists under the hood!

https://dev.to/edisonywh/-elixir–why-linked-lists–1e9d

Base64-encoded files may be a special case in your app, but with the help of Plug.Upload they can be handled as easily as regular files uploaded via HTML forms. https://szajbe.pl/elixir/2019/02/13/file-uploads-with-phoenix-and-plug.html

The panel talks with Ben Schmeckpeper about his SLAX library for SAX parsing in Elixir. We talk about stream processing large XML files, moving to containers, keeping the focus on company needs, and much more!

Podcast Episode

The Curious Case of BEAM CPU Usage

While benchmarking Go vs Elixir vs Node, we discovered that Elixir (running on the BEAM virtual machine) had much higher CPU usage than Go, and yet its responsiveness remained excellent. Some of our readers suggested that busy waiting may be responsible for this behavior.

Download Large Files with HTTPoison Async Requests

In this article we see how some kind of HTTP requests/responses can lead to memory issues. We see then how to manage these cases using HTTPoison Async Requests to asynchronously download large files.

Case2 is a drop-in replacement for Recase supporting Unicode Default Identifiers.

iex> Case2.to_snake "foo_barBaz-λambdaΛambda-привет-Мир"
#⇒ "foo_bar_baz_λambda_λambda_привет_мир"

iex> Case2.to_camel "foo_barBaz-λambdaΛambda-привет-Мир"
#⇒ "fooBarBazΛambdaΛambdaПриветМир"

In the latest episode of ElixirCasts we look at ways to build structs from external data.

https://elixircasts.io/building-structs-from-external-data

In this post I show how I used a DynamicSupervisor to manage processes that are connected to a Phoenix Channel and keep them alive between page reloads.

https://blog.smartlogic.io/elixir-dynamic-supervisors/

Need help handling many to many relationships with Ecto in Elixir? Check out this awesome article by @coletivstudio.

A new version of your go to benchmarking library benchee has been released - the major feature is drastically increased precision when measuring: from microseconds to nanoseconds! There’s a blog post showing off the most important changes but you can also check out the Changelog.

Blog post, announcing Pyc package. It allows transparent validation across inserted data with Exvalibur, chaining functions in a monadic-like way, and exposes all the keys as local variables inside methods declared with defmethod (without compilation warnings.)

https://dev.to/mudasobwa/elixir-structs-on-steroids-5cd9

Adding simple views to a plug application using Raxx.View.

http://crowdhailer.me/2019-02-08/using-raxx-view-in-plug-applications/

Connecting Elixir Nodes with libcluster, locally and on Kubernetes

In this video we are going to see how to cluster Elixir and Phoenix nodes with libcluster, locally and on Kubernetes using Docker containers.

https://www.jackmarchant.com/articles/a-comparison-of-elixir-supervision-trees-and-react-component-trees

In this episode of ElixirMix, the panel talks with Mitchell Hanberg about getting Elixir code completion and code insight using the VIM editor. We talk about the great projects Elixir LS and ALE that combine to make it all possible and much more!

Podcast Episode

https://blog.bitsrc.io/how-to-learn-elixir-for-hipster-javascript-developers-f0352e579ac3

Concepts like pattern matching (destructuring), functions as first-class citizens, and pipelines should be immediately recognizable to Javascript developers.

https://hexdocs.pm/raxx_kit/readme.html

Improvements to generated projects include:

• updated project structure
• latest middleware
• cleaned up child specs
• integration tests

Compile EEx templates to fast and safe views in you web applications.

https://hex.pm/packages/raxx_view

Includes support for reusable layouts.

Inspired by Justin Searls’ Ruby Gem TODO or Die!, I ported the core functionality to Elixir: https://github.com/dsdshcym/todo_or_die_elixir

Feel free to check it out!

If you would like to be able to programmatically control google chrome, this free video is for you! In this episode we show you how to setup chroxy and chrome remote interface in your elixir project and even show you how to get it to server side render a react app!