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!

This post covers a problem I ran into when reading files on Heroku in an Elixir Phoenix app.

https://davidtang.io/2019/02/01/reading-a-file-in-elixir-on-heroku.html

https://minhajuddin.com/2019/02/01/pearls-of-elixir-interesting-patterns-from-popular-elixir-packages/

Telecommunications and the web worked in different ways for years: until recently, the former was all about latency, concurrency, and long-running connections, while the latter, with HTTP, was just about “hits” on ephemeral connections. But the web evolved rapidly, and the things that were important in telecommunications became important for the web, too. https://www.welcometothejungle.co/articles/history-erlang-elixir

Using a real problem that needed solving, I describe the process I took in building a simple Task runner with a GenServer. https://www.jackmarchant.com/articles/using-a-genserver-to-handle-asynchronous-concurrent-tasks

In this episode of ElixirMix, the panel talks with Kevin Moore and Barak Karavani at CarLabs about their library Gremlex, for talking to graph databases. We talk about graph databases, how they help, AWS Neptune, the Gremlin query language, company benefits of open sourcing, and much more!

Podcast Episode

How to be sure tasks are executing once (and only once) across multiple servers - https://medium.com/flatiron-labs/database-locking-with-ecto-in-elixir-9804cdbd1866