Best of Elixir — March 2024

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   Erika Rowland·2y

   Embedding Gleam in my blog with Vite

   The post discusses the process of embedding Gleam in a blog using Vite. It covers creating a Lustre project, installing and configuring Vite, using the bundled JavaScript in a static site, and publishing the blog post.

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   Community Picks·2y

   Distributed Elixir made easy with Spawn

   Introducing Spawn, a paradigm shift in Elixir development that simplifies distributed systems by abstracting away infrastructure complexities. Spawn offers a comparison to traditional GenServer approaches and handles state persistence and infrastructure management seamlessly.

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   Awesome Elixir·2y

   Migrating from Next.js to Phoenix

   Ben Reinhart shares his journey of transitioning from Next.js to Phoenix with Elixir, discussing the frustrations, benefits, and trade-offs involved in the switch.

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   ElixirStatus·2y

   Clivern/Lynx: 🐺 A Fast, Secure and Reliable Terraform Backend, Set up in Minutes.

   Lynx is a fast, secure, and reliable Terraform Backend built in Elixir with the Phoenix framework. It provides simplified setup, team collaboration, user-friendly interface, project flexibility, environment management, state versioning, rollback capability, Terraform locking support, RESTful endpoints, automated scheduled backups, snapshot creation, RESTful endpoints documentation, and OAuth2 authentication support.

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   Awesome Elixir·2y

   Javascript was slowing me down. All in on Elixir

   The author expresses regret for choosing JavaScript and highlights the advantages of using Elixir and Phoenix with Liveview for product development.

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   RisingStack·2y

   Elixir Cheatsheet: A Node.js Developer’s Transition Guide

   Elixir Cheatsheet: A Node.js Developer’s Transition Guide. This post provides a cheatsheet for Node.js developers transitioning to Elixir, covering topics such as variables, data types, control flow, functions, pattern matching, modules, and structs.

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   Elixir·2y

   Scaling a streaming service to hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers at Veeps

   Veeps, a streaming service, successfully scaled to handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers by adopting Elixir and Phoenix. The backend was rewritten in Elixir, which significantly improved scalability and reduced operational costs. The system used distributed Erlang and a service-oriented architecture within a monorepo. Elixir's ecosystem provided solutions for technical challenges, and LiveView simplified the interaction between front-end and back-end developers.

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