I’ve used a variety of tools to organise my reading and notes. Given I spend a significant amount of my time studying, depending on 3rd parties gives me anxiety. Any of the tools I use, even the open-source offline-first ones, can become unmaintained, ridden with security vulnerabilities, slow or they may change in way which makes me reluctant to use them.
To some extent, this post is a sequel to “knowledge mapping”.
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Telemetry is becoming the defacto library to instrument and publish metrics in Elixir apps. This post is a step-by-step guide to integrate Telemetry in a Phoenix app which leverages Opus.
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I published a new gem, sidekiq-dry aiming to tackle a variety of
common frustrations when it comes to Sidekiq jobs and their arguments.
Yesterday I published a demo of my port of observer_cli using LiveView. It took me a few of minutes to familiarise myself with this new web development concept. The docs are clear, accurate and provide a very smooth introduction to the capabilities of this interactive server-side rendering way of doing things. I have to say that I’m really impressed 🙂. You can try the demo yourself here. Or.. check out this gif. … Read more
This time we’ll experiment with a quick way to architecture a Rails application to use Pub/Sub instead of model callbacks. What’s wrong with callbacks Rails active record models easily become bloated, that’s where most of the business logic tends to live after all. One of the most common sources of technical debt in Rails apps is callbacks. Models become god-objects with dependencies to other models, mailers and even 3rd party services. … Read more
I attended ElixirConf.EU 2018, it took place in Warsaw this time. The food was fantastic, the weather was very favourable and the presentations a blast. The Food Announcement: This blog is from now on about food ..Not. That zapiecek place was sooo good though. We ate there almost twice a day. They had those ravioli-like pasta called pierogi, absolutely mouth-watering. I might visit Poland again just for the food! </food> … Read more
I returned from vacations in beautiful Greece (Amorgos island 🏝), to attend Elixir.LDN-2017 in London. General Feeling The venue was at a very convenient location and was well suited for the conference. I could see many familiar faces and felt like a supercharged edition of the London Elixir meetup. If you’re interested in attending the Elixir London meetups you probably want to join #london of the elixir-lang slack (get an invite) and the meetup. … Read more
This post describes the procedure to create lightweight Docker images, using multi-stage builds, to deploy Elixir applications packaged using Distillery. It is assumed that you’re familiar with Docker and Elixir. Multi-stage builds Since Docker version 17.05 you can have multi-stage builds. With such builds you can have a single Dockerfile contain multiple FROM instructions, separating multiple stages of a build, where artifacts from one stage can be used in the next and all resulting in a single image. … Read more
I was in beautiful Barcelona for ElixirConf.EU 2017. In this post I’m sharing some of my notes and impressions about it. Team Quiqup [Zorbas, Hawkins, Rabe] Tutorials I attended the tutorial “Microservices under the Umbrella” by Makis Otman & Georgina McFadyen, both working for 8th Light. We hacked on code from the following repositories: https://github.com/Maikon/elixir_setup https://github.com/Maikon/pharos The was goal to create an umbrella application, going through the pros and cons of such an architecture. … Read more
This is a guide to deploy a Kitto dashboard application on a Raspberry Pi using resin.io. After you follow the steps below, you are expected to have a dashboard running on a raspberry connected to a TV which displays the dashboard full-screen using firefox. Expected end result Kitto is an open-source framework for dashboards, written in Elixir. It is focused on requiring minimal maintenance and system resources. It can be developed using the widespread grid layout of Dashing and features jobs like the following: … Read more
