Khaja MinhajuddininTripping EngineeringDebugging your Phoenix, Elixir and Rails applications inside Docker containersElixir has a great REPL(iex) which allows you to run arbitrary code and see its results. And the same `iex` can be used to start your mix…Aug 28, 20181Aug 28, 20181
Khaja MinhajuddininTripping EngineeringBlazing fast Elixir configurationOne awesome aspect of the Elixir community is its pursuit of high performance. So, I set out to benchmark and compare the two common Elixir…Aug 22, 20182Aug 22, 20182
Khaja MinhajuddininTripping EngineeringHow to implement sliding timeouts in your Elixir GenServersAt Tripping.com, whenever a user makes a search, one of our Elixir microservice spawns up a bunch of GenServers to talk to a few external…Jul 31, 20181Jul 31, 20181
Khaja MinhajuddininTripping EngineeringHow to use private hex dependencies in your docker imagesThere’s not much support for elixir deployments out of the box with Jenkins and ECS. We wanted to simplify our setup by moving common code…Jul 10, 2018Jul 10, 2018
Khaja MinhajuddininStaticGardenHow to architect your services to use AWS ECS using Spot InstancesAlright, I’ve a bunch of side projects which make decent money. However, till recently I’ve been setting up products using a virtual server…Jun 17, 2018Jun 17, 2018
Khaja MinhajuddininTripping EngineeringBring your variables back from the dead!We use a lot of Elixir at Tripping®, and using iex is a great way to explore the standard library and hex packages. However, there are…Jun 12, 2018Jun 12, 2018
Khaja MinhajuddinHow to securely compare passwords in ElixirIf you are building an authentication system. You need to avoid using a simple string equality match for checking passwords. If you do…Apr 28, 2018Apr 28, 2018