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Elixir Radar Newsletter Issue #409

 

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Articles

Benjamin Milde demystifies Child Specs in Elixir. He explains the child spec map, its keys, and its role in supervisors managing child processes.
Sometimes, we have to connect our Elixir app to read from an external database that we don’t control. But when you want to write tests for that read-only database connection, how can you simulate the external database in your test environment? Peter Ullrich shows a solution.
Humberto Aquino explores the world of Kubernetes through the eyes of an Elixir programmer, using the K8s toolbox in a way that would play nicely with Elixir/OTP and Phoenix applications.
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Apps built with Elixir can support massive scalability, real-time interactivity, great fault tolerance, and the language's syntax is actually a joy to use. In this article, we'll use Phoenix to build a multi-tenant link-shortening app.
Adriano Santos and Elias Arruda introduce Spawn, an open-source serverless runtime designed for cloud and on-premises environments. They compare traditional GenServer with Spawn's Actor model, discussing the ease of use, state persistence, and system resilience, especially in Kubernetes environments.
Nx allows you to describe nearly any numerical operation, which can then be run in an optimized environment for such operations. Jason Stiebs explains what a tensor is, how it works with multiple dimensions, and why this is relevant even outside the ML space.

 

Videos

Alex McLain gives a walkthrough of how GridPoint is using Elixir and Nerves to develop a state-of-the-art energy management platform.

 

Job listings

Gartner Digital Markets - Barcelona, Spain
Gartner Digital Markets is looking for a Software Engineer to join our API Platform team. Our current focus area is a GraphQL API for all our applications, to provide a unified data model, to fulfill the data need across all GDM sites.This position will include hands-on development and a close working relationship with our product owners, senior engineers, and development teams.

 

Events

March 07-08, 2024 - San Francisco & Virtual
April 18-19, 2024 - Lisbon & Virtual

 

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