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 … »

Three quick short tips to improve the performance of your test suite!

A new I18n gem just got released and it comes with two new backends extensions: Fast and InterpolationCompiler. First, what is a backend? I18n.t, I18n.translate, I18n.l and I18n.localize methods are actually just wrappers to I18n.backend, which is actually who does all the heavy lifting. This means that you can change your backend to other stuff, … »