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Elixir, OpenTelemetry, and the Infamous N+1
Alex Koutmos wrote an OpenTelemetry article for Phoenix projects by with an awesome demo repo that visualizes telemetry events with Grafana! It’s also a helpful guide on debugging performance problems like N+1 DB queries!
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Interested in a blazingly fast type checker with 25 years of investment, delivered on the BEAM? Check out Caramel, an exciting project fr...
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Ten years without Elixir.
I never got into Elixir, largely because it looked like Ruby. I was a Rubyist for a good while, spent time and...
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Being a part of the tech industry, it would be good to share thoughts on specific technologies.
Having surrounded by skilled and experie...
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Over the last few years, due in large part to the hype surrounding blockchain and cryptocurrencies, decentralized applications have gaine...
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Have you ever wanted to write a structurally typed function in Rust? Do you spend a lot of time and effort getting your Rust struct s jus...
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A long time ago, I wrote an article about The Asymmetry of ++, thanks to
Fede Bergero’s findings. Let’s add a few more asymmetries to th...
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Our blog has had a long standing interest in novel uses of the BEAM, or Erlang virtual machine, as shown by the many articles we have pub...
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Another week, another oldies-but-goldies post…
This one about Test Driven Development.
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I know that these benchmarks might not be the exact picture of real-world scenario, but still I expect a Rust web framework performing a ...
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Curious to know which languages and frameworks you’re all thinking about learning next :upside_down_face:
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Small essay with thoughts on macOS vs. Linux:
I know @Exadra37 is just waiting around the corner to scream at me “I TOLD YOU SO!!!” but I...
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I am asking for any distro that only has the bare-bones to be able to get a shell in the server and then just install the packages as we ...
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Saw this on TikTok of all places! :lol:
Anyone heard of them before?
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We’ve talked about his book briefly here but it is quickly becoming obsolete - so he’s decided to create a series of 7 podcasts, the firs...
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Rails 7 completely redefines what it means to produce fantastic user experiences and provides a way to achieve all the benefits of single...
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Author Spotlight
Dmitry Zinoviev
@aqsaqal
Today we’re putting our spotlight on Dmitry Zinoviev, author of Data Science Essentials in ...
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Programming Ruby is the most complete book on Ruby, covering both the language itself and the standard library as well as commonly used t...
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If you’re getting errors like this:
psql: error: connection to server on socket “/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432” failed: No such file or directory ...
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