Web application performance has always been a hot topic, especially in regards to the role frameworks play in it. It is common to run into fallacies when those discussions arise and the goal of this article is to highlight some of those. While I am obviously biased towards Elixir and the role it plays in … »

This is the first article in a series of articles about “small data” (in contrast to “big data”) in Elixir. We will start by defining what is “small data”, why it matters and then briefly describe the Flow tool and what to expect in the next articles of the series. How small is small? We … »

Note: This is a sample chapter of the upcoming beta version of our “What’s new in Ecto 2.0” free book. Reserve Download your copy now if you want to receive the next beta and be notified of future versions. In the previous chapter we have learned about many_to_many associations and how to map external data … »

The downsides of GenEvent have been extensively documented. For those reasons, the Elixir team has a long term plan of deprecating GenEvent. Meanwhile, we are introducing tools, such as Registry (upcoming on Elixir v1.4) and GenStage, which better address domains developers would consider using GenEvent for. However, there is a very minimal replacement for GenEvent … »

Today we will learn how to build forms in Phoenix that use our schema information to dynamically show the proper input fields with validations, errors and so on. We aim to support the following API in our templates: <%= input f, :name %> <%= input f, :address %> <%= input f, :date_of_birth %> <%= input … »

Yeah! I’m excited to tell you we’re expanding Elixir Radar from a weekly newsletter to a channel you visit to find Elixir related stuff that matters — or when you don’t have time (or patience) to look around the web. In January 2015, Hugo Baraúna (co-founder at Plataformatec) created Elixir Radar as a weekly newsletter … »