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Dealing with long-running HTTP Requests and Timeouts in Phoenix
When processing a HTTP request takes too long, Phoenix closes the connection. In this article we see how to...
Phoenix
01, May 2019
Step-by-Step Tutorial to Build a Phoenix App that Supports User Upload
A step-by-step tutorial we see in depth how to build a Phoenix app from scratch, letting users upload their...
Elixir
17, Apr 2019
Hashing a File in Elixir
What is a hash function and how to calculate the hash strings and files in Elixir, using functions in...
Elixir
10, Apr 2019
Elixir Stream and large HTTP responses: processing text
Part 1 – Elixir Stream to process large HTTP responses on the fly Part 2 – this article You...
Elixir
03, Apr 2019
Elixir Streams to process large HTTP responses on the fly
Transforming an HTTPoison async response into an Elixir Stream, to easily process large remote files on the fly, gaining...
Elixir
27, Mar 2019
The Primitives of Elixir Concurrency: a Full Example
We see how to fully implement concurrent HTTP calls, using just spawn, send and received along with HTTPoison. We...
Elixir
19, Mar 2019
Hey Process, there is a Message for you!
Messages are a fundamental part of concurrency in Elixir. In this article we see how messaging and mailboxes ....
Elixir
13, Mar 2019
Spawning processes in Elixir, a gentle introduction to concurrency
In this article I introduce concurrency and show how we can start making our code concurrent in Elixir, using...
Elixir
06, Mar 2019
How to run a Docker Container
After a quick intro to containers and images, we see how easy it is to run and connect to...
DevOps
21, Feb 2019
The Beauty of Pattern Matching in Elixir
One of the beautiful things of Elixir is pattern matching. We'll see pattern matching with tuples, lists and maps,...
Elixir
19, Feb 2019
Download Large Files with HTTPoison Async Requests
Make requests with HTTPoison is easy, but the response is held in memory. To download large files we need...
Elixir
13, Feb 2019
Connecting Elixir Nodes with libcluster, locally and on Kubernetes
We are going to see how to cluster Elixir and Phoenix nodes with libcluster, locally and on Kubernetes using...
Elixir
06, Feb 2019