When coming to a functional language, I often hear people ask, “How do I organize my code?” In this blog post, I take a look at some ways in which data structures and abstractions can tell us how to organize our modules and functions.

https://robots.thoughtbot.com/organize-your-functional-code

The latest release of Raxx adds two new features.

1. Protect an application use the Basic authentication scheme
2. Keep session data for a user in signed cookies

Just released version 3.0.0 of Mix Build Utilities with automatic directory handling. I wrote MBU to help with using Mix for build tasks, for example for building your frontend. It supports task deps, watching, and now automatic output directories for temporary build artifacts.

Released passwordless_auth - a library for simple passwordless login or 2-factor / multi-factor auth via text message

Released new version of plug_checkup with time formatting and catching exit and throw values

https://github.com/straw-hat-team/straw_hat_iam

I want to share in a project we are working on. Still in active development but I would like to have your feedbacks before I gets ready for pushing to Hex.

A OTP app for handling the security system of your platform.

Hightlights

• Policies: you have a built in AWS Policies mechanism (it doesn’t use anything from AWS, it is built in). This will allow you to have a really robust mechanism for checking permissions.

• Authentication: we use Guardian for authentication, so basically you will have the tools needed for plug the authentication in your Plug/Absinthe or any other OTP app.

• Authorization: using the built in policies you will have the tools for checking the authorization of your platform

Working on it

We want to finish the list from this issue https://github.com/straw-hat-team/straw_hat_iam/issues/35 Probably it ill no happen right way for every single bullet point but that is what we are aiming for.

Any suggestion, idea, contributions of any kind will be appreciated.

I hope this will resolve some issues for your applications right now.

A small writing on what operators can be used in Elixir for pipelining and how.

http://rocket-science.ru/hacking/2018/03/16/elixir-pipeline-operators

Simple API written in Elixir to detect gender by first name https://github.com/alexfilatov/gender_detect

Demo: https://gender-detect-ex.herokuapp.com/detect?name=mark

I’ve heard so many people say “ets tables are super fast” without numbers to back it up, but now I can prove it! https://github.com/devonestes/fast-elixir#retrieving-state-from-ets-tables-vs-gen-servers-code

A mysterious viewer asked about Elixir tooling in VS Code in the optional comment section of our content and features requests survey and left no way to respond… short of recording this video.

Also at the end of the video is a sneak peek at the new Alchemist Camp website!

https://hexdocs.pm/bungee/1.0.0-alpha2/readme.html

After having gone through writing an auth token library and the first steps towards protecting our API with an auth process, this time we’ll take a look at verifying accounts.

We’re adding an old but proven technique in the world of technology: emails! This will lead us to choosing an e-mail library, integrating it with Phoenix templates and translating those with Gettext.

https://sealas.at/blog/2018-03/translated-e-mails-and-account-verification-with-phoenix-and-swoosh-auth-part-4/

youtu.be/lRocS2o0DJY

Let’s set up some event tracking on Alchemist.Camp with Keen.io! This video has 3 parts:

1. What to track (the 5 most important user actions)
2. The tools (Keenex, Geolix, UAInspector)
3. Coding it!

Just released erlang-rocksdb 0.16.0 a binding of rocksdb for #Erlang applications.

It now support rocksdb 5.10.4 and added some new features. Changelog is there: https://gitlab.com/barrel-db/erlang-rocksdb/blob/master/CHANGELOG … Enjoy !

Best Elixir frameworks to create applications for web, APIs, bots, command-line scripts, dashboards, etc. The list includes Phoenix, Nerves, Sugar, Hedwig and many more.

Link: https://www.icicletech.com/blog/top-open-source-frameworks-in-elixir

https://youtu.be/aBGQBsuUvhU . The video includes process monitoring a bit beyond the Supervisor. Also, if anyone would like to start a delivery company, this has you covered

Aadya Release

We are pleased to release Aadya-beta . The CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol) framework build on top of Elixir and Erlang ecosystem. CoAP is a binary protocol intended for IoT devices for lower payload.

Aadya is pretty similar to MVC style frameworks like Phoenix or ROR.

We took our time to release this framework. We took care of building an ecosystem around Aadya framework from logging to debugging using existing tools.

https://medium.com/@blackode/elixir-1-6-3-supports-comments-in-the-middle-of-pipelines-when-and-expressions-b7ccace2176a

Code.Formatter

Where and how to validate incoming payload in web applications? https://k.lelonek.me/validate-payload

AlloyCI v0.4.0 includes initial support for build artifacts, full support for build dependencies, and the option to use Sentry for error catching. Read more about it here: https://github.com/AlloyCI/alloy_ci/releases/tag/v0.4.0