3 Approaches to Solving the New Year Chaos Logic Problem
Software engineer, Jonathan Walters, breaks down three approaches he took to solve the New Year Chaos logic problem from HackerRank.
Continue Reading My Favorite Functions and Patterns: Function Clauses in Elixir
Elixir is far too generous. I realize how cossetted I am when I go to use function clauses in JavaScript. Because you can’t do that. I personally detest if statements, along with case — perhaps to a fault. Function clauses redeem me. Why? Because there is lawtable by which I abide: Let the complexity of […]
Continue ReadingElixir Releases: Moving Past Elixir 1.8 and Distillery 2.0
Elixir 1.9 has been released with built-in support for releases, a need that was previously served (and continues to be) by the Distillery package.
Continue ReadingHow to Delegate with Defdelegate
Software engineer and Elixir pro Bryan Joseph explains how to delegate functions to another module with a secret weapon, also knowns as defdelegate.
Continue ReadingElixir Releases and Docker Multi-Stage Builds on Kubernetes
At Revelry, we’ve recently changed how we deploy Phoenix / Elixir apps onto Kubernetes. We’re using a new feature of Elixir called “releases” alongside a Docker feature called “multi-stage builds.” The result is that we are making smaller and more secure Docker images than with our previous approach.
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