https://blog.ironbay.co/reading-named-pipes-with-elixir-c5c614a32f25

How to go about reading data from special files like named pipes

https://hex.pm/packages/clusterable

This version removes epmd dependency, and

• v0.1 only helps prepare a node before it can be clustered.
• v0.2 goes one step further to integrate libcluster into the library, performing the clustering for you.

Still not for release users though.

https://medium.com/@iacobson/genstage-under-umbrella-634160612cf6

Use GenStage to communicate between Elixir Umbrella apps and avoid internal dependencies issues.

Five talks from this year’s ElixirConf US that will teach you to be a better Elixir developer – both for beginners and advanced Alchemists.

https://medium.com/@pentacent/5-great-videos-from-elixirconf-2017-4d985386b55b

This post dives into how to control and query a Bitcoin full node from within Elixir using HTTPoison and Bitcoin’s JSON RPC interface. Check it out!

Short blog post in Polish about examples in documentation and how to use them to write tests. Everything with Slowsort algorithm background.

Finally, exometer_influxdb is available on hex.pm and ready to use with your Erlang/Elixir projects.

Cloudinex is an Elixir wrapper around the Cloudinary Image Upload API and Admin API using Tesla

I wrote a blog post about the easy deployment of Phoenix applications.

ElixirConf 2017 was a great opportunity to get together, enjoy each other’s company, and celebrate what we’ve accomplished in the past year. In particular, Nerves has grown significantly in both maturity and popularity since the previous ElixirConf.

Check out our collection of the Nerves/embedded-related presentations here: http://embedded-elixir.com/post/2017-09-11-embedded-talks-elixirconf/

New on Elixir School - a lesson on benchmarking in Elixir with Benchee! Learn just how easy it is to get real answers on how fast your functions are.

https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/libraries/benchee/

I started a new project, and I’m open sourcing it today. It’s called AlloyCI, and it is a Continuous Integration, Deployment, and Delivery coordinator, written in Elixir, that takes advantage of the GitLab CI Runner, and its capabilities as executor, to prepare and run your pipelines.

I prepared a blog post about it. You can also try out for yourself at https://alloy-ci.com

I wrote up a blog post describing how I used CircleCI 2.0’s new Docker image support and caching features to speed up CI builds for a Phoenix app.

Hopefully this helps others out there who are also trying to migrate to the new 2.0 version with their Elixir / Phoenix applications!

During the process of migrating a Rails app to Phoenix, I needed to create a library that encompassed its paging, sorting and scoping requirements. From it, came Query. Although still in its infancy, hopefully someone can find it useful.

https://github.com/nsweeting/query

I’d say thinking scope of variable always help programmers to write good code. Form my experience, I feel that is beneficial.

In this time, I’ve tried to search relationship between macro and context which is identical to scope in different languages

https://blog.m346e.info/articles/think_about_quote_and_unquote_from_viewpoint_of_context/

A complete how to for creating Elixir Releases with Distillery. Including some tips for Phoenix, Ecto, and umbrella applications.

https://medium.com/@pentacent/mastering-elixir-releases-with-distillery-a-pretty-complete-guide-497546f298bc

A simple way to automatically set the semantic version of your Elixir app - goodcode

https://goodcode.in/elixir/6/a-simple-way-to-automatically-set-the-semantic-version-of-your-elixir-app

When I first started learning Elixir, one of the first things I learned is how to get into the command line interface via IEx. Here are the things I wish I knew then that I know now. http://echobind.com/blog/2017-08-31-tips-and-tricks-for-iex/

After spending some time migrating a Phoenix application from 1.2 to 1.3, including adding some contexts, Devon talks about the issues with testing and decoupling that he ran into, and includes some ideas for improvement.

http://www.devonestes.com/phoenix-contexts-arent-finished-yet/

EventBus library getting more stable and getting very close v1.0. Give it a try to have delicious pub/sub experience on your library or project. For more event driven approaches without any dependency and really fast event passing using ETS concurrent read/writes.

https://github.com/mustafaturan/event_bus