Elixir Releases: Moving Quickly Past Elixir 1.8 and Distillery 2.0 February 3, 2020October 11, 2022 |Jason PollentierBack-End Engineering Elixir / Phoenix 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.
How to Delegate with Defdelegate November 25, 2019May 31, 2023 |Rev TeamBack-End Engineering Software engineer and Elixir pro Bryan Joseph explains how to delegate functions to another module with a secret weapon, also knowns as defdelegate.
NodeJS, an Elixir Library for Calling Node.js Functions December 6, 2018October 6, 2022 |Rev TeamBack-End Engineering Blockchain Elixir / Phoenix Javascript 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 July 26, 2018October 11, 2023 |Rev TeamBack-End Engineering Elixir / Phoenix At Revelry, we are heavy users of DataDog so this solution leans heavily into putting metrics there.
Strong Types of Pattern Matching in Elixir July 5, 2017October 11, 2023 |Rev TeamBack-End Engineering Elixir / Phoenix 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.