When doing puts-driven-development in Elixir, IO.inspect/1 and IO.inspect/2 are very useful. These functions return their items unchanged, allowing us to spy on a value in our Elixir code.

I recently implemented OAuth in Phoenix for the first time almost entirely guided by this tutorial. I tried a couple of other tutorials…

This post is a loose continuation of my previous post on implementing OAuth in a Phoenix backend API. Read it if you want to. I’m not your…

Article explaining how we refactored a Phoenix channel module that was getting too complex.

Right in the middle of the week, the Ops sniper of my team called devs attention to the uprise in CPU usage on the production instance…

This is the third in a collection of posts on various challenges I encountered while building a backend API in the Elixir Phoenix…

In a milestone achievement, TurboPlay solves a longstanding problem and is the first to provide a viable solution for signing transactions…

This is the fifth in a collection of posts I’ve been writing on my first experience building a backend API in the Elixir Phoenix framework…

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Monotonic time is time from a clock that only moves forward. The system clock on your CPU can be set and reset. Even when tied to the LAN ntp protocol the system clock can be out-of-sync by a couple of milliseconds. When measuring in microseconds, that's…

Reading Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir and following along the examples helpe...

In part 3 of building the Go Game in Elixir, we'll allow the creation of new games as well as inviting others to join in. Along the way, we touch on Elixir's Registry, PubSub and dynamic supervisors.

The past couple of days I started a new project in which Java and Ruby have to interact among them. I was asked to choose a functional…

Setup IP geolocation in Elixir in under 60 seconds

I wont lie, i took me 3 days to really understand what the docs is saying.

In my goal to learn Elixir, I decided to work on a beginner’s StringCalc kata. I read about test-driven development on Elixir and gladly…

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Episode II.

The Phoenix Framework provides an easy mix task to automatically generate a self-signed SSL cert. This is useful if you want to test the app locally with HTTPS.

So it's been a while since I've been reading about Property based testing, but had been skeptical about it so far, because it is clearly…

When you need to write a temporary file to disk it is common to assume a particular path exists based on the operating system the app is running on: