NEWSLETTER

Issue 260

October 14, 2020

Articles

A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir

serokell.io

Gints Dreimanis gives an overview of what OTP is, as well as a clear explanation of processes, GenServer, and Supervisor.

Elixir 1.11 and Erlang Docs

thinkingelixir.com

Elixir 1.11 gives you the ability to show the docs for Erlang functions. This is a short guide to help you get it working if you encountered any problems.

How we split Plug.SSL to control SSL redirection

dev.betterdoc.org

Sascha Wolf needed more granular control over SSL handling. He then investigated the internals of Plug.SSL, created a custom solution, evolved it, and got a PR accepted into Plug!

Capabilities of Elixir's Logger

AppSignal - SPONSOR

In this article, we’re going to demonstrate how logs work in Elixir. We’ll jump into Elixir’s Logger module, which brings a lot of power to logging features.

Phoenix LiveView chart.js setup

medium.com/@apboobalan

Boobalan AP wrote a how-to on getting interactive charts using LiveView and Chart.js.

Real time communication at scale with Elixir at Discord

elixir-lang.org

Discord is using Elixir to power more than 12 million concurrent users with more than 26 million WebSocket events to clients per second. Here's a new case study of how Elixir is being used in production.

Yet Another Guide To Build a JSON API with Phoenix 1.5

www.poeticoding.com

Tamas Soos builds a poll app step-by-step and to show how to create a basic Phoenix JSON API. Very well explained.

Videos

Using the Beam to fight COVID-19 - Code BEAM V

Code Sync

Bryan Hunter discusses HCA Healthcare COVID-19 use cases, and how the patterns of the BEAM map so well onto healthcare.

He talks about process pairs, long-lived digital twins, no-masters, continuous availability, location transparency, the bit-syntax for clinical data, soft real-time, and hot-code loading. You will also get a brief tour of HCA Healthcare’s open sourced HL7 library.

Job Listings

Product Engineer

Teller - London, United Kingdom

Teller is the API for bank accounts. We've recently raised $4m in seed investment from some of Silicon Valley's leading VCs. We're a small high-quality team at an exciting inflection point. If you're a talented engineer seeking an ambitious mission as part of a high-performance engineering team with a reputation for technical excellence then we want to hear from you.

Events

Code BEAM BR

November 06-07, 2020 - Online

Elixir Brazil

November 28-29, 2020 - Online

Notes from the Editor

Hi!

Last week I published another blog post on Elixir Radar's behind the scenes.

In that blog post, I explained what Elixir Radar is about, how it intends to help the Elixir ecosystem to move forward by helping Elixir developers, Elixir content creators, and Elixir companies.

Hope you like it.

And as always, thanks for your support!

-- Hugo