Code katas are fun, but they do little to train us for our real day-to-day work as working, professional web developers. Lately I’ve been practicing what I call “practical code katas” in an attempt to hone my Elixir/Phoenix skills. Check out the article to find out more!

https://www.dailydrip.com/blog/ecto-vs-activerecord

https://content.nanobox.io/how-to-deploy-phoenix-applications-to-google-cloud-platform-using-nanobox/

I wrote up a step-by-step guide on deploying a Phoenix app to DigitalOcean from scratch with Gatling \o/

https://www.dailydrip.com/topics/elixir/drips/deploying-a-phoenix-app-with-gatling

A gentle introduction to the Actor model using JavaScript

https://monades.roperzh.com/get-to-know-the-actor-model/

Maple is an automatic, compile time, client code generator for GraphQL schemas. At best it creates easy to use API functions for use in your code. At worst it can be used as a CLI for a GraphQL API.

This is a work in progress and feedback is appreciated!

https://github.com/maxneuvians/maple

Send iOS and Android push notifications with Elixir!

What’s new? Cleaner API, dead-simple runtime configuration, and much more! https://github.com/codedge-llc/pigeon

Just wrote a whole bunch of cheatsheets for Phoenix and Ecto. Check it out 🔥!

https://devhints.io/phoenix

Multidimensional Knapsack Problem  heuristic using Elixir and MILP solver https://medium.com/@piasekhgw/multidimensional-knapsack-problem-distributed-218ecf64b0a

If you’re a Mac user upgrading to High Sierra and you experience issues with Elixir/Phoenix, try upgrading Erlang.

https://tosbourn.com/elixir-issues-high-sierra/

Just published the latest package in my Plymio family plymio_option.

The package offers a potpourri of utility functions for managing Keyword options.

https://medium.com/@iacobson/implementing-genstages-under-umbrella-a2b6b2d3fe78

Part 3: Implement the GenStages across Umbrella apps and make the tests pass.

Deploying an Elixir release and friends with Kubernetes and Helm. Code included! Deployment is Coming! Anyone at the Helm?

I just released a little pet project - http://erlangjobs.ru, a job board for Erlang/Elixir based positions, basically for companies and developers in Russia.

https://medium.com/@learnitnow/explicitness-ecto-vs-implicitness-active-record-f901c37e3857

I’ve been working on a personal project with some mates for the past few months, and I’ve been mostly responsible for building our backend with Phoenix.

It’s come to a time where we need to implement some sort of “comments & likes” functionality for the app, so I set out to start thinknig how to go about it.

Continue reading…

Episode #19 is live - an introduction to function plugs.

You can watch it here: https://elixircasts.io/intro-to-function-plugs

Developing an HTTP/2 server required an interface that supporting bidirectional streaming. This post explains how a Rack style interface was modified for the task and how to start using it to serve content over HTTP/2 today.

https://hexdocs.pm/tokumei/interface-design-for-http-streaming.html

Use simple password authentication with password managers support (ie. 1password) for your app

https://medium.com/@bartoszlecki/plugpassword-secure-your-plug-based-application-c3f80960a2d

https://medium.com/@iacobson/testing-the-genstages-under-umbrella-b55a2db37a28

The second article in the GenStage Under Umbrella series. Integration testing GenStages inside Umbrella apps.