Into the Ecto.Multi-verse

Elixir has a lot of convenient functions for building web applications. Let's explore the inner workings of a few.

At Podium we focus on writing discoverable code. Code is read many more times than it is written, so it is important to us that our code…

A look at the nuances of :ets, and a new library to help with using :ets features.

I just came back from Lonestar Elixir Conf 2019 in Austin, Texas. The conference was a single track, 2 days, with an extra day for an…

Are you a good friend for SQL? Please say YES! I will tell you something about Ecto, but the essence of this post is SQL. I guess you…

An API project I have been working on recently uses a plug to get the current user and authenticate them. This is not uncommon, but as a…

Do you want to learn and use machine learning in Elixir / Phoenix / Nerves apps? Of course, you can, but the machine learning is written…

I think that the distinction between OOP and functional paradigms is murky. For example we can write in Ruby in functional style (check…

First, records used in erlang XMPP library are defined in ./include/*.hrl. We need to import them into Elixir like this:

So recently I came across the fact that Elixir is full of macros, and that it a...

I recently gave a talk at Empex LA in which I talked about my desire to see simplifications and enhancements to using some of the OTP behaviors offered in Elixir. In this post I’m going to explore …

The Engineering team at work is growing and we just hired our first Jr. Welcome Izzy! Hmm Now what?

Messages are a fundamental part of concurrency in Erlang and Elixir. In this article I introduce how messaging between processes works. We play with simple examples to see how a process sends and receives messages.

In the last post, I talked about using IO.write/2 to create cool CLIs. After writing that post, I got lots of great feedback along with…

I wanted to update this site for a while and was looking at best options to do it. Should I use a static site generator like Gatsby.js or…

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Lonestar ElixirConf 2019 took place February 28 thru March 2 in Austin, Texas. Several engineers from Bleacher Report attended the…