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…3 min read·Aug 28, 2018--1--1
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…4 min read·Aug 22, 2018--2--2
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…2 min read·Jul 31, 2018--1--1
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…3 min read·Jul 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…2 min read·Jun 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…2 min read·Jun 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…1 min read·Apr 28, 2018----
