Programmatic Parallels of Signal Flow
By Matt AguiluzRevelry Alumni Signal flow is something I find endlessly fascinating. The process of receiving input, processing it, and returning output is relatively…
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Data pipelines in Elixir
Have you been looking to do something in Elixir outside of the usual Phoenix website? Or do you need to do some data processing…
When to Use Ruby On Rails
Ruby on Rails runs on Ruby, which is an open source language that has been around since the 1990s. What is Ruby? One of…
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.
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…
Elixir Releases: Moving Quickly 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.
NodeJS, an Elixir Library for Calling Node.js Functions
Having this Elixir-to-Node bridge allows us to use a tried-and-tested JavaScript library for our app while we get our Elixir client off the ground.
Monitoring Phoenix Applications and Recording Metrics
At Revelry, we are heavy users of DataDog so this solution leans heavily into putting metrics there.
Strong Types of Pattern Matching in Elixir
There are various ways to define the shape of the data you expect. This post shows the various forms pattern matching can take in Elixir.